Assessing the passive cooling effect of the ventilated pond protected with a reflecting layer

Applied Energy

Volumn 123, Issue , 2014, Pages 273-280

  Spanaki, Artemisia ^a   Kolokotsa, Dionysia ^b   Tsoutsos, Theocharis ^b   Zacharopoulos, Ilias ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Evaporative cooling; Passive technique; Radiative cooling; Roof pond

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; EVAPORATION; EVAPORATIVE COOLING SYSTEMS; LAKES; ROOFS; THERMAL COMFORT; WATER LEVELS;

CLIMATIC CONDITIONS; EVAPORATIVE COOLING; EVAPORATIVE COOLING TECHNIQUES; FREE WATER SURFACES; INDOOR AIR TEMPERATURE; MINIMUM TEMPERATURES; PASSIVE TECHNIQUE; ROOF PONDS;

RADIATIVE COOLING;

ALUMINUM; COOLING; EVAPORATION; HEAT FLOW; INDOOR AIR; VENTILATION;

AEGEAN ISLANDS; CRETE [GREECE]; GREECE;

CALLUNA VULGARIS;

EID: 84896527814     PISSN: 03062619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2014.02.040     Document Type: Article

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