Designing for 'use phase' energy losses of domestic products

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part B: Journal of Engineering Manufacture

Volumn 223, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 115-120

  Elias, E W A ^a   Dekoninck, E A ^a   Culley, S J ^a  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Design; Energy efficiency; Intrinsic losses; Theoretical minimum; User behaviour; User losses

Indexed keywords

DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY; DESIGN STRATEGIES; DOMESTIC PRODUCT; ENERGY LOSS; INTRINSIC LOSS; INTRINSIC LOSSES; PROPORTION OF ENERGY; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK; THEORETICAL MINIMUM; USE PHASE; USER BEHAVIOUR; USER LOSSES;

DESIGN; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; ENERGY DISSIPATION; OPTICAL LOSSES;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

EID: 67549130559     PISSN: 09544054     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1243/09544054JEM1295     Document Type: Article

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