Energy consumption of air conditioners at different temperature set points

Energy and Buildings

Volumn 65, Issue , 2013, Pages 412-418

  Wang, Nan ^a   Zhang, Jiangfeng ^a   Xia, Xiaohua ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Air conditioner; Energy saving; Temperature set point

Indexed keywords

CALCULATED ENERGY CONSUMPTION; COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; CONSUMPTION CALCULATION; CONTROL STRATEGIES; ENERGY IN BUILDINGS; MEASURED ENERGY CONSUMPTION; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SETPOINTS;

AIR CONDITIONING; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY UTILIZATION; MEAN SQUARE ERROR;

DOMESTIC APPLIANCES;

EID: 84880278948     PISSN: 03787788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2013.06.011     Document Type: Article

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