Floor heating and cooling combined with displacement ventilation: Possibilities and limitations

Energy and Buildings

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2338-2352

  Causone, Francesco ^a   Baldin, Fabio ^b   Olesen, Bjarne W ^c   Corgnati, Stefano P ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Displacement ventilation; DV; Floor cooling; Floor heating; Hybrid systems; Thermal comfort

Indexed keywords

A-THERMAL; AIR TEMPERATURE; AIR VELOCITY PROFILE; CONTAMINANT SOURCES; DESIGN GUIDELINES; DISPLACEMENT VENTILATION; DV; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FLOOR COOLING; FLOOR HEATING; FLOOR HEATING AND COOLING; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; VENTILATION EFFECTIVENESS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COOLING; COOLING SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC GROUNDING; ENVIRONMENTAL CHAMBERS; FLOORS; HEATING; HYBRID COMPUTERS; HYBRID SYSTEMS; SOLAR HEATING; TEMPERATURE CONTROL; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMAL COMFORT;

VENTILATION;

EID: 77957718684     PISSN: 03787788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2010.08.001     Document Type: Article

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