Performance of Anidolic Daylighting Systems in tropical climates - Parametric studies for identification of main influencing factors

Solar Energy

Volumn 84, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1085-1094

  Linhart, Friedrich ^a   Wittkopf, Stephen K ^b   Scartezzini, Jean Louis ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Anidolic; Daylight; Office lighting

Indexed keywords

ANIDOLIC; COATING MATERIAL; DAYLIGHTING SYSTEMS; IN-BUILDINGS; INFLUENCING FACTOR; NEW RESULTS; OVERALL EFFICIENCY; PARAMETRIC STUDY; POTENTIAL IMPACTS; SIMULATION RESULT; SINGAPORE; SKY CONDITION; SUSTAINABLE BUILDING DESIGN; SYSTEM DIMENSION; TROPICAL CLIMATES;

INTELLIGENT BUILDINGS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

DAYLIGHTING;

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; CONTROL SYSTEM; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SIMULATION; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 77953308556     PISSN: 0038092X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solener.2010.01.014     Document Type: Article

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