Assessing energy and thermal comfort of different low-energy cooling concepts for non-residential buildings

Energy Conversion and Management

Volumn 76, Issue , 2013, Pages 332-341

  Salvalai, Graziano ^a   Pfafferott, Jens ^b   Sesana, Marta Maria ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b OFFENBURG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dynamic building simulations; Low energy cooling technologies; Office buildings; Thermal comfort

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE THERMAL COMFORT; BUILDING PERFORMANCE; BUILDING SIMULATION; COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS; CONCRETE CORE CONDITIONING; LOW-ENERGY COOLING; NATURAL VENTILATION; SUSPENDED CEILINGS;

CEILINGS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY UTILIZATION; OFFICE BUILDINGS; VENTILATION;

THERMAL COMFORT;

EID: 84883160646     PISSN: 01968904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enconman.2013.07.064     Document Type: Article

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