Potential for energy savings through residential hot water distribution system improvements

Proceedings of the ASME 3rd International Conference on Energy Sustainability 2009, ES2009

Volumn 2, Issue , 2009, Pages 341-350

  Hendron, Robert ^a   Burch, Jay ^a   Hoeschele, Marc ^b   Rainer, Leo ^b  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Davis Energy Group   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED SIMULATION; ALTERNATIVE SYSTEMS; CLIMATE REGIONS; CURVE-FIT; DETAILED MODELING; DISTRIBUTION LOSS; ENERGY EFFECTS; ENERGY SAVING; HOT WATER; HOUSE DESIGN; PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS; RESIDENTIAL ENERGY EFFICIENCY; RESIDENTIAL HOT WATER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS; SPACE CONDITIONING; THERMAL INTERACTION;

CURVE FITTING; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; HOUSES; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WATER SUPPLY; WATER SUPPLY SYSTEMS;

HOT WATER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS;

EID: 77953773630     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/ES2009-90307     Document Type: Conference Paper

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