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Jacopo Gaspari, Kristian Fabbri and Linda Gabrielli
The scientific literature offers a wide range of studies evidencing the progress done in the retrofit actions dealing with the current building stock; however, renovations of hospitals are still an open field of research due to their typical complexity t...
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Ali Saberi-Derakhtenjani, Andreas K. Athienitis, Ursula Eicker and Edwin Rodriguez-Ubinas
Radiant floor systems offer significant potential for studying and developing energy flexibility strategies for buildings and their interaction with smart grids. Efficient design and operation of such systems require several critical decisions on design ...
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Nicola Lolli, Alessandro Nocente and Steinar Grynning
The influence of different control strategies on the user?s satisfaction in cell offices was studied in a full-scale facility in Trondheim, Norway. Eleven participants used two test cells as a workspace and answered a computer-based questionnaire for rep...
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In moderate climates, the operation of windows is the most common way to control for thermal comfort. Window-opening behavior (WOB) is a complex process influenced by multiple factors, yet only simple bi-variate analyses between variables obtained from l...
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Tania Rus, Raluca Moldovan, Horatiu Albu and Dorin Beu
The indoor environmental quality of a building has attracted everyone?s attention since a worldwide pandemic was declared and forced people indoors. After several months, people were able to return to their usual activities, but with strict safety measur...
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Dong Liu, Na Liu, Donglin Ren, Xiaozhou Wu, Jun Wang, Yabin Tian, Anjie Hu, Li Wan and Jialan Wen
The thermal comfort of preschool children was assumed to be similar to that of young adults, which may cause inaccuracy. This study tested and analyzed the thermal response characteristics of young adults and preschool children (4?6 years old) and the di...
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Minxue He
This work aims to assess potential changes in the mean and extreme precipitation and temperature across the Sacramento?San Joaquin Delta (Delta) in California in the 21st century. The study employs operative climate model projections from the Coupled Mod...
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Camille Berthod, Marie-Hélène Bénard-Déraspe, Jean-François Laplante, Nicolas Lemaire, Madeleine Nadeau, Nicolas Toupoint, Gaëlle Triffault-Bouchet and Richard Saint-Louis
The growing transportation of petroleum products pose a significant risk of marine diesel or diluted bitumen (dilbit) spills at sea. Despite the economic importance of the American lobster, there have been few studies assessing the impact study of such a...
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Guido Saccone and Marco Marini
In the framework of the ?Multidisciplinary Optimization and Regulations for Low-boom and Environmentally Sustainable Supersonic aviation? project, pursued by a consortium of European government and academic institutions, coordinated by Politecnico di Tor...
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Zhonghua Gou, Wajishani Gamage, Stephen Siu-Yu Lau and Sunnie Sing-Yeung Lau
This article presents a pilot study of thermal comfort and adaptive behaviors of occupants who live in naturally ventilated dormitories at the campus of the National University of Singapore. A longitudinal survey and field measurement were conducted to m...
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Alessio Cappelli, Mauro Zaninelli, Sirio Cividino, Mattia Fiscella, Enrico Cini, Alessandro Parenti and Piernicola Masella
Chickpeas are one of the most widely consumed legumes in the world. Nevertheless, the literature is lacking studies on the effect of drying and milling processes on chickpea flour characteristics, thus motivating this work. The first aim of this work is ...
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Hong Li, Kun Ji, Ye Tao and Chun?an Tang
On the basis of a conceptual model for an Excavation based Enhanced Geothermal System (EGS-E), which proposed to extract heat from Hot Dry Rock at depth through dominantly adopting shaft, roadways, and caved rock failure techniques but not depending on e...
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Ivan Lovrinovic, Veljko Srzic, Iva Matic and Marin Brkic
In this paper, we present an approach based on the simultaneous use of multilevel monitoring systems for the ground and surface water and wavelet-based analysis of the time series observed to detect the main mechanisms influencing the water level, electr...
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Jesús Armando Aguilar-Jiménez, Nicolás Velázquez, Ricardo López-Zavala, Luis A. González-Uribe, Ricardo Beltrán and Luis Hernández-Callejo
In this work, we present an absorption cooling system with 35 kW capacity driven by solar thermal energy, installed in the school of Puertecitos, Mexico, an off-grid community with a high level of social marginalization. The cooling system provides therm...
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Zijing Tan and Xiang Deng
In this study, the natural ventilation potential of residential buildings was numerically investigated based on a typical single-story house in the three most populous climate zones in Australia. Simulations using the commercial simulation software TRNSY...
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