A novel integrated system of ground heat exchanger and indirect evaporative cooler

Energy and Buildings

Volumn 49, Issue , 2012, Pages 604-610

  Khalajzadeh, Vahid ^a   Farmahini Farahani, Moien ^a,b   Heidarinejad, Ghassem ^a  

^a TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b University of Oklahoma   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD); Cooling coil unit (CCU); Ground heat exchangers (GHE); Ground coupled circuit (GCC); Hybrid cooling air conditioner; Indirect evaporative cooling (IEC)

Indexed keywords

COOLING COILS; GROUND HEAT EXCHANGERS; GROUND-COUPLED CIRCUIT (GCC); HYBRID COOLING; INDIRECT EVAPORATIVE COOLING;

AIR CONDITIONING; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COOLING; COUPLED CIRCUITS; DOMESTIC APPLIANCES; EVAPORATIVE COOLING SYSTEMS; HYBRID SYSTEMS; INTEGRATED CONTROL; THERMOANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS;

EID: 84861825978     PISSN: 03787788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2012.03.009     Document Type: Article

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