Water flow rate models based on the pipe resistance and pressure difference in multiple parallel chiller systems

Energy and Buildings

Volumn 75, Issue , 2014, Pages 181-188

  Wang, Handong ^a  

^a SHENZHEN POLYTECHNIC   (China)

Author keywords

Model; Multiple parallel chillers; Pipe resistance coefficient; Pressure difference; Water flow rate

Indexed keywords

MODEL COEFFICIENT; MULTIPLE PARALLEL CHILLERS; PARTIAL FLOW RATE; PIPE RESISTANCE; PRESSURE DIFFERENCES; PROTOTYPE SYSTEM; RESISTANCE COEFFICIENTS; WATER FLOW RATE;

COOLING SYSTEMS; COOLING WATER; EXPERIMENTS; FLOW OF WATER; HYDRAULICS; MODELS;

FLOW RATE;

EID: 84896802968     PISSN: 03787788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2014.02.017     Document Type: Article

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