Energy savings potential for pumping water in district heating stations

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 5705-5719

  Sarbu, Ioan ^a   Valea, Emilian Stefan ^a  

^a POLITEHNICA UNIVERSITY OF TIMISOARA   (Romania)

Author keywords

Control valve; Energy efficiency; Heating system; Pump adjustment; Speed control; Variable frequency drive

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FLOW CONTROL; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HEATING; OPERATIONS TECHNOLOGY; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PUMP; PUMPING;

ROMANIA;

EID: 84934878841     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20711050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su7055705     Document Type: Article

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