PCM-air heat exchangers for free-cooling applications in buildings: Empirical model and application to design

Energy Conversion and Management

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 444-449

  Lazaro, Ana ^a   Dolado, Pablo ^a   Marin, Jose M ^a   Zalba, Belen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Empirical model; Free cooling; Heat transfer; PCM; Thermal energy storage

Indexed keywords

AIR; APPLICATIONS; COOLING; DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; ENERGY STORAGE; FLYWHEELS; HEAT EXCHANGERS; HEAT STORAGE; HEAT TRANSFER; MODEL BUILDINGS; SOLAR WATER HEATERS; THERMOANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES; THERMOGRAPHY (TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT);

EMPIRICAL MODEL; FREE-COOLING; HEAT EXCHANGING; NOVEL DESIGN; PCM; POWER DEMANDS; SELECTION CRITERION; THERMAL ENERGY STORAGE;

PULSE CODE MODULATION;

EID: 58649097715     PISSN: 01968904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enconman.2008.11.009     Document Type: Article

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