A statistical method for selection of sequences of coincident weather parameters for design cooling load calculations

Energy Conversion and Management

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 813-821

  Chen, Tingyao ^a   Yu, Zhun ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Air conditioning systems design; Building; Design weather data; Peak cooling load; z Transfer function

Indexed keywords

AIR CONDITIONING; BUILDINGS; COOLING; COOLING SYSTEMS; DESIGN; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; MODEL BUILDINGS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR RADIATION; STATISTICAL METHODS; STATISTICS; SUN; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

AIR-CONDITIONING SYSTEMS DESIGN; BUILDING; DESIGN WEATHER DATA; PEAK COOLING LOAD; Z-TRANSFER FUNCTION;

STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

EID: 58949092620     PISSN: 01968904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enconman.2008.09.021     Document Type: Article

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