Artificial neural network analysis of the performance characteristics of a reversibly used cooling tower under cross flow conditions for heat pump heating system in winter

Energy and Buildings

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1685-1693

  Wu, Jiasheng ^a   Zhang, Guoqiang ^a   Zhang, Quan ^a   Zhou, Jin ^a   Wang, Yu ^a  

^a HUNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Artificial neural network; Back propagation algorithm; Heating; Reversibly used cooling tower

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CROSS FLOWS; EXPERIMENTAL VALUES; HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER; HEAT PUMPS; HEATING SYSTEM; HIDDEN LAYERS; LINEAR TRANSFER FUNCTION; MEAN RELATIVE ERROR; OUTPUT LAYER; PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS; REVERSIBLY USED COOLING TOWER; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; RUNNING CONTROL; SIGMOID TRANSFER FUNCTION; THEORETICAL BASIS; THREE-LAYER;

BACKPROPAGATION; COOLING; COOLING TOWERS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; FORECASTING; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; HEATING; HEATING EQUIPMENT; MASS TRANSFER; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PUMPS; TOWERS; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 79956372189     PISSN: 03787788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2011.03.008     Document Type: Article

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