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Residential Air Conditioners: U.S. Experience and Possible Extensions to the Global Market

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Residential air conditioners consist of two general types; room and central equipment. Room air conditioners are intended to cool rooms or small spaces while central systems are designed to condition an entire building.

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  1. Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA

    Gregory J. Rosenquist

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  1. Directorate General for Energy, European Commission, Rue de la Loi 200, B-1049, Bruxelles, Belgium

    Paolo Bertoldi

  2. ISIS, Via Flaminia 21, I-00196, Rome, Italy

    Andrea Ricci

  3. NOVEM, P.O. Box 17, NL-6130, AA Sittard, The Netherlands

    Boudewijn Huenges Wajer

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Rosenquist, G.J. (1999). Residential Air Conditioners: U.S. Experience and Possible Extensions to the Global Market. In: Bertoldi, P., Ricci, A., Wajer, B.H. (eds) Energy Efficiency in Household Appliances. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60020-3_35

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