Life cycle assessment and comparison of an evaporative cooling system and a conventional vapour-compression cooling system for an office building in Denmark

Open Access

Issue		E3S Web Conf. Volume 672, 2025 The 17^th ROOMVENT Conference (ROOMVENT 2024)


Article Number		03025
Number of page(s)		8
Section		Ventilation & Energy Efficiency: Humidity
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202567203025
Published online		05 December 2025

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