Weather-predicted control of building free cooling system

Applied Energy

Volumn 88, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 3088-3096

  Dovrtel, Klemen ^a   Medved, Sašo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Building efficient energy use; Free cooling; Optimization; Variable flow control; Weather predicted control

Indexed keywords

COOLING; COOLING SYSTEMS; FLOW CONTROL; HEAT STORAGE; OPTIMIZATION; THERMOELECTRIC EQUIPMENT;

CONSTRUCTION PARAMETER; COOLING ENERGY; ENERGY USE; FREE COOLING; FREE-COOLING SYSTEMS; INDOOR ENVIRONMENT; INDOOR ENVIRONMENT PARAMETERS; OPTIMAL OPERATION; PARAMETRIC ANALYSIS; REGIME OF OPERATION; STEADY-STATE OPERATION; SYSTEM OPERATION; TEMPERATURE PARAMETERS; VARIABLE FLOW CONTROL; VARIABLE FLOW RATE; WEATHER FORECASTS; WEATHER-PREDICTED CONTROL;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

CONTROL SYSTEM; COOLING; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; FLOW CONTROL; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETERIZATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; STORAGE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 79955469800     PISSN: 03062619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2011.03.010     Document Type: Article

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