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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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Xuwei Zhu, Jiying Liu, Xiangyuan Zhu, Xiaole Wang, Yanqiu Du and Jikui Miao
The combined radiant floor and fan coil cooling (RFCAFC) system is widely used due to its high comfort and large energy saving potential. In this study, as an example, the combined RFCAFC system was studied in a high humidity environment in Jinan, Shando...
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Jane Loveday, Grant K. Loveday, Joshua J. Byrne, Boon-lay Ong and Gregory M. Morrison
Loss of green space in our suburban environment is contributing to increased urban heat. The material properties of surface treatments or landscape elements (LEs) are a determining factor in the amount, timing, and type of radiation present in the local ...
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Mohannad Bayoumi
Although radiant cooling is considerably more efficient than conventional all-air room cooling systems, the potential for its application in warm humid regions is limited, owing to the increased risk of condensation by opened windows or unsealed openings...
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Mohannad Bayoumi
Although radiant cooling is considerably more efficient than conventional all-air room cooling systems, the potential for its application in warm humid regions is limited, owing to the increased risk of condensation by opened windows or unsealed openings...
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Yingdong He, Nianping Li, Xiang Wang, Meiling He and De He
It is well known that personal cooling improves thermal comfort and save energy. This study aims to: (1) compare different personal cooling systems and (2) understand what influences users? willingness to adopt them. A series of experiments on several ty...
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Paolo Valdiserri, Silvia Cesari, Maddalena Coccagna, Pasquale Romio and Sante Mazzacane
Hospitals require the highest energy demands in non-residential buildings. They provide healthcare 24/7/365 and, at the same time, they ensure indoor air quality, thermal comfort and sterility. However, several studies reveal that high indoor temperature...
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Amir Nadeem, Hafiz Muhammad Tahir, Azhar Abbas Khan, Atif Idrees, Muhammad Faisal Shahzad, Ziyad Abdul Qadir, Naveed Akhtar, Arif Muhammad Khan, Ayesha Afzal and Jun Li
Sucking pests of cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.), such as thrips, or Thrips tabaci Lindeman, and jassid, or Amrasca biguttula Ishida, are among the most threatening insect pests to young cotton plants in Pakistan. New chemical insecticides have been trial...
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Yafei Zhao, Paolo Vincenzo Genovese and Zhixing Li
With the improvement of technologies, people?s demand for intelligent devices of indoor and outdoor living environments keeps increasing. However, the traditional control system only adjusts living parameters mechanically, which cannot better meet the re...
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Ehsan Gholamalizadeh, Mohammad Yaghoub Abdollahzadeh Jamalabadi and Majid Oveisi
Thermal radiant heating through distinct heat sources is of interest for the thermal loading of thin objects as it is used in residential applications, furnaces, and insulator designs. In this paper, an optimal design for a thermal radiant system by disc...
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Zhiyong Yang, Yiping Wang and Li Zhu
A solar assisted heat pump (SAHP) system was designed by using a roof-integrated solar collector as the evaporator, and then it was demonstrated to provide space heating for a villa in Tianjin, China. A building energy simulation tool was used to predict...
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Juan Xu, Wenting Yang, Ziliang Lu, Yan Wu, Chaoping Hou and Dan Liu
Slate dwellings are known as the ?living fossil of primitive dwellings? in China. Energy-saving strategies are crucial to slate dwellings for sustainability as well as maintaining thermal comfort. In this research, a subjective satisfaction analysis on t...
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Weibo Wang, Jianhua Zheng, Chunsheng Jing and Jinping Zhao
A predetermined quanta-to-energy ratio is often used in many ecosystem models to transform photosynthetically radiant flux density into photosynthetic photon flux density when light penetrates seawater. The calculation formula of the ratio is reduced in ...
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Norman G. Loeb, Tyler J. Thorsen, Joel R. Norris, Hailan Wang and Wenying Su
This study examines changes in Earth’s energy budget during and after the global warming “pause” (or “hiatus”) using observations from the Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System. We find a marked 0.83 ± 0....
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Maria Inês Conceição, Eusébio Conceição, António Grilo, Meysam Basiri and Hazim Awbi
A greenhouse is used to improve thermal comfort (TC) levels for its occupants in winter conditions using solar radiation, which involves low energy consumption. The aim of this research is the application of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in the evaluat...
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Ventilated façades are among the existing measures to reduce the energy demand in buildings. The combination of this passive heating and cooling strategy with photovoltaics (PV) can drive new buildings towards the current European targets near or ...
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Michael Schrempf, Nadine Thuns, Kezia Lange and Gunther Seckmeyer
The vitamin D3-weighted UV exposure of a human with vertical posture was calculated for urban locations to investigate the impact of orientation and obstructions on the exposure. Human exposure was calculated by using the 3D geometry of a human and integ...
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Elisabeth Fassbender, Josef Rott and Claudia Hemmerle
Cities face the consequences of climate change, specifically the urban heat island (UHI) effect, which detrimentally affects human health. In this regard, deploying PV modules in urban locales prompts inquiry into the impact of energy-active building com...
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Xiaozhou Wu, Hao Gao, Mingming Zhao, Jie Gao, Zhen Tian and Xiangli Li
A ceiling cooling system integrated with a mechanical ventilation system has been widely used in modern buildings with large sensible cooling loads due to the high thermal comfort level and large energy efficiency. However, there is a lack of systematic ...
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M. S. Shyam Sunder, Vinay Anand Tikkiwal, Arun Kumar and Bhishma Tyagi
Aerosols play a crucial role in the climate system due to direct and indirect effects, such as scattering and absorbing radiant energy. They also have adverse effects on visibility and human health. Humans are exposed to fine PM2.5, which has adverse hea...
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