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Anatolijs Borodinecs, Kristina Lebedeva, Natalja Sidenko and Aleksejs Prozuments
Evaporative cooling is widely recognized as an energy efficient and environmentally-friendly air conditioning solution, and it has drawn a lot of market interest in recent years. However, this technology is accompanied by several challenges. For instance...
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Zakariya Kaneesamkandi and Abdul Sayeed
The scientific aim of this work is to encourage energy conservation. This article offers a fresh perspective on renewable energy in the air conditioning sector, the country?s economic growth, and environment-friendly techniques to overcome global warming...
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Muataz Dhaif and André Stephan
In hot and humid climatic conditions, cooling tends to dominate building thermal energy use. Cooling loads can be reduced through the adoption of efficient building envelope materials, such as Structural Insulated Panels (SIPs). This study quantifies the...
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District cooling systems (DCSs) are networks able to distribute thermal energy, usually as chilled water, from a central source to industrial, commercial, and residential consumers, to be used for space cooling/dehumidification. As cooling demand will in...
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Luca Urbanucci, Daniele Testi and Joan Carles Bruno
District heating and cooling networks based on trigeneration systems and renewable energy technologies are widely acknowledged as an energy efficient and environmentally benign solution. These energy systems generally include back-up units, namely fossil...
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Ignacio R. Martin-Dominguez, Norma A. Rodriguez-Muñoz, Claudia K. Romero-Perez, Mario Najera-Trejo and Naghelli Ortega-Avila
In Mexico, residents of low income housing mainly achieve thermal comfort through mechanical ventilation and electrical air conditioning systems. Though government and private efforts have risen to meet an increasing demand for social housing, the averag...
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Ignacio R. Martin-Dominguez, Norma A. Rodriguez-Muñoz, Claudia K. Romero-Perez, Mario Najera-Trejo and Naghelli Ortega-Avila
In Mexico, residents of low income housing mainly achieve thermal comfort through mechanical ventilation and electrical air conditioning systems. Though government and private efforts have risen to meet an increasing demand for social housing, the averag...
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Ignacio R. Martin-Dominguez, Norma A. Rodriguez-Muñoz, Claudia K. Romero-Perez, Mario Najera-Trejo and Naghelli Ortega-Avila
In Mexico, residents of low income housing mainly achieve thermal comfort through mechanical ventilation and electrical air conditioning systems. Though government and private efforts have risen to meet an increasing demand for social housing, the averag...
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R.K. Kulkarni,I.H. Patel,R.D. Bothe,P.P. Vyavahare
Pág. 53 - 61
Evaporative cooler operating on solar energy is a viable option in places where there is scarcity of grid power and is also useful for short term storage of farm products. This paper analyzes the performance of a commercial cooler operated on the solar p...
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Giovanni Angrisani, Carlo Roselli, Maurizio Sasso and Francesco Tariello
Desiccant-based air handling units can achieve reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and energy savings with respect to conventional air conditioning systems. Benefits are maximized when they interact with renewable energy technologies, such as solar co...
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Aiman Albatayneh
Enhancing the energy efficiency and environmental sustainability of buildings is a significant global aim. New construction regulations are, therefore, geared specifically towards low-emission and energy-efficient projects. However, there are numerous an...
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D. Bravo, F. González, J. González
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Context: The use of solar energy, rather than an alternative, is the viable solution to the energy demands of our planet for sustainable development. Given the population increase and the quality of life at a global scale, it is very reasonable to foreca...
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Juan Carlos Suárez, Amara T. Contreras, Milan O. Urban, Miguel A. Grajales, Stephen E. Beebe and Idupulapati M. Rao
One of the strategies to combat micronutrient malnutrition is by developing biofortified common bean lines (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) capable of tolerating different stress conditions. In this study, the adaptive responses of different biofortified bean lin...
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Zhaoyi Zhuang, Jin Zhao, Fengfeng Mi, Teng Zhang, Yuguo Hao and Shangyue Li
Heat pump technology can extract low-level heat energy from urban sewage to heat or cool buildings, which can alleviate the two major problems of energy shortage and environmental pollution to a certain extent. This paper introduces the principle of wast...
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Juan Prieto, Dereje S. Ayou and Alberto Coronas
The aim of this study is to analyze the feasibility of the single-effect H2O/LiBr absorption heat pump cycle to produce combined heating and cooling. To achieve this, first, the main changes that the absorption cycle requires are described in comparison ...
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Alexandre F. Santos, Pedro D. Gaspar, Heraldo J. L. de Souza, João M. L. P. Caldeira and Vasco N. G. J. Soares
This study discusses the choice of dehumidification systems for high-moisture indoor environments, such as indoor swimming pools, supported by an eco-energetic performance comparison. Initially, the causes of the high relative humidity and condensation i...
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Paula M. Wenzel and Peter Radgen
Cooling towers remove economically or technically unusable heat using considerable amounts of electricity and, in many cases, water. Several approaches, which vary in methodology, scope, and level of detail, are used for environmental evaluations of thes...
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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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Yu Cui, Zishang Zhu, Xudong Zhao, Zhaomeng Li and Peng Qin
Conventional building energy models (BEM) for heating and cooling energy-consumption prediction without calibration are not accurate, and the commonly used manual calibration method requires the high expertise of modelers. Bayesian calibration (BC) is a ...
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Jamal Saif, Andrew Wright, Sanober Khattak and Kasem Elfadli
In hot arid climates, air conditioning in the summer dominates energy use in buildings. In Kuwait, energy demand in buildings is dominated by cooling, which also determines the national peak electricity demand. Schools contribute significantly to cooling...
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