Balancing envelope and heating system parameters for zero emissions retrofit using building sensor data

Applied Energy

Volumn 131, Issue , 2014, Pages 56-66

  Nagy, Zoltán ^a   Rossi, Dino ^a   Hersberger, Christian ^a   Irigoyen, Silvia Domingo ^a   Miller, Clayton ^a   Schlueter, Arno ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Building monitoring; Emission free retrofit; Retrofit analysis; Sensor network

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON FOOTPRINT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY UTILIZATION; GREENHOUSE GASES; HEATING; HEATING EQUIPMENT; RETROFITTING; SENSOR NETWORKS;

COEFFICIENT OF PERFORMANCE; DIMENSIONLESS PARAMETERS; EMISSION-FREE; EMISSION-FREE OPERATIONS; LOW TEMPERATURE HEATING; RETROFIT ANALYSIS; STEADY-STATE MODELING; THERMAL TRANSMITTANCE;

BUILDINGS;

BUILDING; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON FOOTPRINT; ENERGY USE; FOSSIL FUEL; NUMERICAL MODEL; SENSOR; SIMULATION;

SWITZERLAND; ZURICH [SWITZERLAND];

EID: 84903836680     PISSN: 03062619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2014.06.024     Document Type: Article

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