December 2013
Intermediate to advanced
1200 pages
57h 13m
English
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Environment, Energy and Sustainable Development – Sung, Kao & Chen (eds)
© 2014 Taylor & Francis Group, London, ISBN 978-1-138-00053-7
Applying groundwater as heat insulation medium for energy-saving
building
Yu-Kuang Zhao, Wen-Pei Sung & Ting-Yu Chen
Integrated Research Center for Green Living Technologies, National Chin-Yi University of Technology, Taiwan
ABSTRACT: The weather of Taiwan is very hot and humidity. In order to establish a comfortable
indoor environment, ventilating a building efficiently during summer and insulating the heat transmis-
sion of building and improving the air conditioning are active strategies to improve the energy efficiency
of building. The groundwater below a certain depth of the ground level has a constant tempera ...