Thermal performance investigation of earth air tunnel heat exchanger coupled with a solar air heating duct for northwestern India

Energy and Buildings

Volumn 87, Issue , 2015, Pages 360-369

  Jakhar, Sanjeev ^a   Misra, Rohit ^b   Bansal, Vikas ^c   Soni, M S ^a  

^a BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE   (India)

^b GOVERNMENT ENGINEERING COLLEGE   (India)

^c VEER SURENDRA SAI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Earth air tunnel heat exchanger; Heating capacity; Solar air heating duct; Thermal performance

Indexed keywords

EARTH (PLANET); HEAT EXCHANGERS; HEATING; SOLAR WATER HEATERS;

ARID CLIMATES; HEATING CAPACITY; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SOLAR AIR HEATING; STAND -ALONE; THERMAL PERFORMANCE; WINTER SEASONS;

DUCTS;

EID: 84916896565     PISSN: 03787788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2014.11.070     Document Type: Article

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