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Energy efficiency
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Energy efficiency
Condenser coil
Energy; Energy efficiency
The device in an air conditioner or heat pump through which the refrigerant is circulated and releases heat to the surroundings when a fan blows outside air over the coils. This will return the hot ...
Blower
Energy; Energy efficiency
The device in an air conditioner that distributes the filtered air from the return duct over the cooling coil/heat exchanger. This circulated air is cooled/heated and then sent through the supply ...
Expansion valve
Energy; Energy efficiency
The device that reduces the pressure of liquid refrigerant thereby cooling it before it enters the evaporator coil in a heat pump.
Peak sun hours
Energy; Energy efficiency
The equivalent number of hours per day when solar irradiance averages 1 kW/m2. For example, six peak sun hours means that the energy received during total daylight hours equals the energy that would ...
Building overall energy loss coefficient-area prod
Energy; Energy efficiency
The factor, when multiplied by the monthly degree-days, that yields the monthly space heating load.
Bagasse
Energy; Energy efficiency
The fibrous material remaining after the extraction of juice from sugarcane; often burned by sugar mills as a source of energy.
Supply duct
Energy; Energy efficiency
The duct(s) of a forced air heating/cooling system through which heated or cooled air is supplied to rooms by the action of the fan of the central heating or cooling unit.
