Cooling without air conditioning
This paper presents results from the first year of monitoring the performance of a laboratory building in the new 14,000m2 Torrent Research Centre in Ahmedabad, India. The capital and running costs of air conditioning of non-domestic buildings in northern India are very substantial, while building costs (compared with northern Europe) are low. A cooling technique which maximises reliance on the building fabric and minimises reliance on mechanical equipment is therefore likely to be cost effective. Passive Downdraught Evaporative Cooling (PDEC) represents such a technique.
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1998
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Authors: | Ford, Brian ; Patel, Nimish ; Zaveri, Parul ; Hewitt, Mark |
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Renewable Energy. - Elsevier, ISSN 0960-1481. - Vol. 15.1998, 1, p. 177-182
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Elsevier |
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