The potential for ground-sourced cooling of domestic buildings in desert

In many dry desert climates such as in Kuwait, the summer season is long with a mean daily maximum temperature of 45°C. A round 80% of total electricity generation is consumed by air-conditioning systems in domestic buildings. A hybrid cooling technique to reduce the domestic cooling demand would ha...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Al-Ajmi, Farraj F.
Published: Loughborough University 2003
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Online Access:https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.289556