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Heating and cooling energy recovery for an HVAC system: Economic analysis for the Italian climate
Author(s) -
Palombo Adolfo
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
international journal of energy research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.808
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1099-114X
pISSN - 0363-907X
DOI - 10.1002/er.711
Subject(s) - hvac , evaporative cooler , environmental science , climate system , energy (signal processing) , energy system , meteorology , climate change , air conditioning , computer science , engineering , mechanical engineering , statistics , geography , mathematics , ecology , biology
In this paper the economic analysis of the energy recovery in all‐outdoor‐air HVAC systems for the Italian climate is performed. The energy recovery device considered here is the same for both heating and cooling periods. During the summer season, the energy saving is achieved by evaporative cooling. The performances of the hybrid innovative HVAC system and the traditional system are calculated hour by hour by following the test reference year (TRY) profile. Such analysis is carried out taking into account simultaneously, the trend of some climatic indexes computed in order to (i) better understand the influence of climate on the HVAC system behaviour, (ii) obtain a swift feasibility analysis of the energy recovery system and (iii) perform a rough operating cost estimate of the traditional HVAC system. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.