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Numerical simulation, technical and economic evaluation of air-to-earth heat exchanger coupled to a building

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In this paper, the authors evaluated the technical and economic performance of an air-to-earth heat exchanger coupled to the system for heating or cooling of a building that uses 100% fresh air as a heating medium during winter and summer.
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This article is published in Energy.The article was published on 1997-12-01. It has received 91 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Passive cooling & Heat exchanger.

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Ground heat exchangers—A review of systems, models and applications

TL;DR: In the literature, several calculation models are found for ground heat exchangers as discussed by the authors, which can accommodate for any type of grid geometry that may give greater detail of the temperature variation around the pipes and in the ground.

Thermohydraulic design of earth-air heat exchangers

TL;DR: In this paper, a one-dimensional analytical method is used to analyse the influence of the design parameters of the heat exchanger on the thermo-hydraulic performance and a relation is derived for the specific pressure drop, linking thermal effectiveness with pressure drop of the air inside the tube.
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Thermo-hydraulic design of earth-air heat exchangers

TL;DR: In this article, a one-dimensional analytical method is used to analyse the influence of the design parameters of the heat exchanger on the thermo-hydraulic performance and a relation is derived for the specific pressure drop, linking thermal effectiveness with pressure drop of the air inside the tube.
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Evaluation of earth-to-air heat exchangers with a standardised method to calculate energy efficiency

TL;DR: In this article, the performance of three earth-to-air heat exchanger (EAHX) for mid European office buildings in service is investigated, with the aim of characterising their efficiency.
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Experimental and analytical studies of earth–air heat exchanger (EAHE) systems in India: A review

TL;DR: A review on the experimental and analytical studies of earth-air heat exchanger (EAHE) systems can be found in this paper, where the studies are mainly focused on EAHE systems at the Indian universities as of the end June, 2012.
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Performance and applicability of passive and low-energy cooling systems

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors summarized the state of the art of passive and low-energy cooling systems for buildings: comfort ventilation, nocturnal convective cooling, radiant cooling, direct and indirect evaporative cooling, and utilization of the soil as a cooling source for buildings.
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Design and operation of a low energy consumption passive solar agricultural greenhouse

TL;DR: In this article, the design, construction, and operation of a 1000 m 2 passive solar agricultural greenhouse are described, in order to reduce heat losses and increase useful solar gains on a daily and seasonal basis.
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On the performance of buildings coupled with earth to air heat exchangers

TL;DR: In this article, a new integrated method to calculate the contribution of the earth to air heat exchangers to reduce the cooling load of the buildings is presented, based on the principle of balance point temperature.
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Heat and water vapour transfer in a greenhouse with an underground heat storage system part I. Experimental results

TL;DR: A greenhouse with an underground heat storage system consisting of two layers of 0.125m diameter PVC drain pipes buried 0.8 and 0.5 m deep, and a centrifugal fan circulating the greenhouse air, was tested with a classical crop rotation lettuce-tomato as mentioned in this paper.
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The performance of a greenhouse heated by an earth-air heat exchanger

TL;DR: The greenhouse air temperature was adjusted by blowing the greenhouse air through the pipe system whenever the air temperature dropped below 12°C or exceeded 28°C as discussed by the authors, which resulted in a minimum mean night air temperature of 8.1°C inside the greenhouse with an absolute minimum of 7°C while the outside minimum mean and absolute minimum air temperatures were −0.8°C and −3.0°C, respectively, during the same period.
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