Earth-to-air heat exchangers for Italian climates

Fabrizio Ascione, Laura Bellia and Francesco Minichiello

Renewable Energy, 2011, vol. 36, issue 8, 2177-2188

Abstract: The European Energy Efficiency Building Directive 2002/91/CE, as well as other acts and funding programs, strongly promotes the adoption of passive strategies for buildings, in order to achieve indoor thermal comfort conditions above all in summer, so reducing or avoiding the use of air conditioning systems.

Keywords: Ground cooling; Heat exchanger; Earth-to-air; Energy saving; Building; Dynamic simulation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2011.01.013

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