Modelling and analysis of air-cooled reciprocating chiller and demand energy savings using passive cooling

Applied Thermal Engineering

Volumn 29, Issue 8-9, 2009, Pages 1825-1830

  Chowdhury, Ashfaque Ahmed ^a   Rasul, M G ^a   Khan, M M K ^a  

^a CENTRAL QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Air cooled chiller; Economiser; Pre cooling

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COOLING; OFFICE BUILDINGS;

AIR-COOLED CHILLER; AUSTRALIA; BUILDING ENERGY SIMULATIONS; COOLING ENERGIES; ECONOMISER; ENERGY SAVINGS; MEASURED DATUM; PASSIVE COOLING; PRE-COOLING; QUEENSLAND; RECIPROCATING CHILLERS; SIMULATED RESULTS;

COOLING SYSTEMS;

EID: 61349146219     PISSN: 13594311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2008.09.001     Document Type: Article

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