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Yufan He, Can Luo, Li Cheng, Yandong Gu and Bin Gu
The shaft-type tubular pumping station has the remarkable characteristics of a large flow rate and high efficiency. It can realize the functions of irrigation, pumping, and drainage through pumping and generating conditions considering tides. Moreover, i...
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Siliang Yang, Francesco Fiorito, Alistair Sproul and Deo Prasad
Energy used in buildings is mainly attributed to provide the desired thermal comfort, which could result in an increase in carbon emission and, in turn, lead to further environmental degradation. A Building-Integrated Photovoltaic Double-Skin Façade (BIP...
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Bongchan Jeong, Jungsoo Kim, Zhenjun Ma, Paul Cooper and Richard de Dear
Air conditioning (A/C) is generally responsible for a significant proportion of total building energy consumption. However, occupants? air conditioning usage patterns are often unrealistically characterised in building energy performance simulation tools...
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Ivan Julio Apolonio Callejas, Raquel Moussalem Apolonio, Emeli Lalesca Aparecida da Guarda, Luciane Cleonice Durante, Karyna de Andrade Carvalho Rosseti, Filipa Roseta and Leticia Mendes do Amarante
Climate change impact is one of the most important global concerns at present. In the building environment, climate-responsive design may help to enhance the adaptation capacity through a better building energy performance. In this sense, this study addr...
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Inês F. G. Reis, António Figueiredo and António Samagaio
The evolution of the construction sector over the years has been marked by the replacement of high thermal inertia mass constructions by increasingly lighter solutions that are subject to greater thermal fluctuations and, consequently, thermal discomfort...
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Haigang Tian, Tianyi Hao, Chao Liu, Han Cao and Xiaobiao Shan
Current wind tunnels possess a large space volume and high manufacturing cost, which are not suitable for investigating micro energy harvesters. This paper aims to design and fabricate a small, portable and low-speed wind tunnel for energy harvesting. A ...
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Aiman Albatayneh, Dariusz Alterman, Adrian Page and Behdad Moghtaderi
To design energy-efficient buildings, energy assessment programs need to be developed for determining the inside air temperature, so that thermal comfort of the occupant can be sustained. The internal temperatures could be calculated through computationa...
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Abdulbasit Almhafdy,Norhati Ibrahim,Sabarinah Sh Ahmad
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The courtyard is an architectural design element often regarded as microclimate modifiers. It has the potential of improving comfort conditions within the outdoor courtyard space and the enclosing indoor spaces. Harnessing the optimum benefits of c...
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Fahimeh Rezvani,Ignacio Zabalza Bribián
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Energy diagnosis and check of the energy performance of traditional houses are becoming urgent and essential to achieving energy saving in the residential sector. The paper presents the results of experimental studies focused on the enhancement of ...
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Georgios Eleftheriadis and Mohamed Hamdy
Through monitoring of buildings, it can be proven that the performance of envelope elements and energy supply systems deteriorates with time. The results of this degradation are higher energy consumption and life cycle costs than projected in the buildin...
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Mauro Venturini, Stefano Alvisi, Silvio Simani and Lucrezia Manservigi
This paper deals with the comparison of different methods which can be used for the prediction of the performance curves of pumps as turbines (PATs). The considered approaches are four, i.e., one physics-based simulation model (“white box” mo...
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Jairo Valões de Alencar Ramalho, Ruth da Silva Brum, Luiz Alberto Oliveira Rocha, Liércio André Isoldi, Elizaldo Domingues dos Santos, Mariane Sulzbacher
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Relying on the Constructal Design method, this paper introduces new periodic models for the thermal potential of Earth-Air Heat Exchangers (Eahe). As a case study, it analyses the best spacing for three ducts arranged triangularly in order to maxim...
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Jian Yao and Rongyue Zheng
Occupant behavior has a significant impact on building energy performance. The purpose of this paper is to quantify the stochastic characteristics of manual solar shades and their influence on building energy performance. A co-simulation for occupants? s...
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Clayton E. Hiles, Scott J. Beatty and Adrian De Andres
Critical to evaluating the economic viability of a wave energy project is: (1) a robust estimate of the electricity production throughout the project lifetime and (2) an understanding of the uncertainty associated with said estimate. Standardization effo...
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Ruiyin Song, Meiqin Zhang, Xiaohua Qian, Xiancheng Wang, Yong Ming Dai and Junhua Chen
Wave and current energy can be harnessed in the East China Sea and South China Sea; however, both areas are subject to high frequencies of typhoon events. To improve the safety of the ocean energy conversion device, a Floating Ocean Energy Conversion Dev...
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Annamaria Buonomano
In this paper details about the results of a code-to-code validation procedure of an in-house developed building simulation model, called DETECt, are reported. The tool was developed for research purposes in order to carry out dynamic building energy per...
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Hery Tiana Rakotondramiarana, Tojo Fanomezana Ranaivoarisoa and Dominique Morau
Green roofs improve building energy performance and constitute an alternative to sustainable buildings. A green roof model is dynamically coupled with a building thermal model to assess its energy performance that takes into account the indoor air temper...
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Christopher Dyke, Kevin Van Den Wymelenberg, Ery Djunaedy and Judi Steciak
Currently, there is no manual blind control guideline used consistently throughout the energy modeling community. This paper identifies and compares five manual blind control algorithms with unique control patterns and reports blind occlusion, rate of ch...
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Cinzia Buratti, Francesco Asdrubali, Domenico Palladino and Antonella Rotili
Household energy consumption has been increasing in the last decades; the residential sector is responsible for about 40% of the total final energy use in Europe. Energy efficiency measures can both reduce energy needs of buildings and energy-related CO<...
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Lim Seungtaek, Lee Hoseang and Kim Hyeonju
Near infinite seawater thermal energy, which is considered as an alternative to energy shortage, is expected to be available to 98 countries around the world. Currently, a demonstration plant is being built using closed MW class ocean thermal energy conv...
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