Thermal comfort assessment and potential for energy efficiency enhancement in modern tropical buildings: A review

Energy and Buildings

Volumn 68, Issue PARTA, 2014, Pages 547-557

  Kwong, Qi Jie ^a   Adam, Nor Mariah ^a   Sahari, B B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Adaptive behaviour; Air conditioning system; Computational simulation; Energy efficiency; Thermal comfort; Tropical buildings

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOUR; COMFORT PERCEPTION; COMPUTATIONAL SIMULATION; EFFICIENCY ENHANCEMENT; ENERGY CONSERVATION POTENTIAL; ENERGY EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENTS; THERMAL ENVIRONMENT; TROPICAL COUNTRIES;

AIR CONDITIONING; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY RESOURCES; ENERGY UTILIZATION; GREENHOUSE GASES; POPULATION STATISTICS; TROPICAL BUILDINGS;

THERMAL COMFORT;

EID: 84887295638     PISSN: 03787788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2013.09.034     Document Type: Review

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