The Research Progress of Earth to Air Heat Exchanger: A Review

Abstract:

As a renewable and energy-saving technology, the earth to air heat exchanger has great advantages over the traditional thermal technologies both in initial investment and operation cost. This paper aims to review the research progress of EAHE in the world in view of numerical models and experiments, in which the EAHE needs to be further studied in the further.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 733)
• Pages: 211-214
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.733.211
• Online since: February 2015
• Authors: Hong Liu, Xin Wang, Di Di Xue
• Keywords: EAHE, Experiment, Numerical Simulation, Research Prospects

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