Study on the decision-making of district cooling and heating systems by means of value engineering

Renewable Energy

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1929-1939

  Shu, Haiwen ^a   Duanmu, Lin ^a   Zhang, Chaohui ^a   Zhu, Yingxin ^b  

^a DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

District cooling and heating; Life cycle cost; Seawater source heat pump; Value engineering

Indexed keywords

COLD CLIMATE; CONTROL PERFORMANCE; DISTRICT COOLING; DISTRICT COOLING AND HEATING; ELECTRICITY PRICES; ENERGY SAVING; ENVIRONMENT FRIENDLY; ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION; EVALUATION MODELS; HEATING SYSTEM; INITIAL COSTS; LIFECYCLE COSTS; MAINTENANCE COST; RENEWABLE ENERGIES; SEAWATER SOURCE HEAT PUMP; THERMAL SOURCE;

CLIMATE CONTROL; CLIMATE MODELS; COOLING SYSTEMS; DISTRICT HEATING; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY UTILIZATION; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; HEATING; LIFE CYCLE; MAINTENANCE; PUMPS; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; SEAWATER; VALUE ENGINEERING;

COSTS;

CIVIL ENGINEERING; CLIMATE EFFECT; COOLING; COST; DECISION MAKING; HEATING; MAINTENANCE; PUMP; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; SEAWATER;

EID: 77950945153     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2010.01.021     Document Type: Article

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