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Thermal Behaviour of Piggyback-Laid District Heating and District Cooling Pipes

Environmental and Climate Technologies
Volume 29 (2025): Issue 1 (January 2025)
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|Sep 2025

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/rtuect-2025-0034 | Journal eISSN: 2255-8837 | Journal ISSN: 1691-5208
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Language: English
Page range: 500 - 511
Submitted on: Mar 18, 2025
Accepted on: Aug 21, 2025
Published on: Sep 10, 2025
Published by: Riga Technical University
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 2 times per year
Keywords:
Energy infrastructure,
field measurements,
finite element analysis,
heat transfer analysis,
pipeline construction technology
Related subjects:
Life sciences,
Life sciences, other

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