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View article: Life Cycle Analysis in the Context of Smart Cities
Life Cycle Analysis in the Context of Smart Cities Open
The transformation of urban areas into smart cities integrates advanced technologies to enhance efficiency, sustainability and liveability. In this study, we employed a systematic literature review methodology to assess the environmental i…
View article: Harnessing Nanomaterials for Enhanced Energy Efficiency in Transpired Solar Collectors: A Review of Their Integration in Phase-Change Materials
Harnessing Nanomaterials for Enhanced Energy Efficiency in Transpired Solar Collectors: A Review of Their Integration in Phase-Change Materials Open
The building sector plays an important role in the global climate change mitigation objectives. The reduction of CO2 emissions and energy consumption in the building sector has been intensively investigated in the last decades, with solar …
View article: Contribution to the modelling of air flows in a conical inlet drying chamber
Contribution to the modelling of air flows in a conical inlet drying chamber Open
The main objective of this study is to provide input on the mesh and temperature distribution inside the drying chamber for a building-integrated dryer for food preservation to obtain a uniform temperature profile. For this, we varied the …
View article: Numerical investigation of cascaded phase change materials use in transpired solar collectors
Numerical investigation of cascaded phase change materials use in transpired solar collectors Open
One of the greatest challenges of humanity is to reach world climate-neutrality by 2050. Using renewable energy and in particular solar energy instead of fossil fuels, falls in this direction. A quest for the use of the solar energy as muc…
View article: Numerical Simulation Investigation of a Double Skin Transpired Solar Air Collector
Numerical Simulation Investigation of a Double Skin Transpired Solar Air Collector Open
Transpired solar collectors (TSC) are one of the most popular solar thermal technologies for building façades. TSC use solar energy to heat the absorber surface, which transmits thermal energy to the ambient air. A variant of TSC, namely, …
View article: Mesh independency study for an unglazed transpired solar collector
Mesh independency study for an unglazed transpired solar collector Open
Transpired solar collectors have been widely studied during the last 30 years by experimental, mathematical, and numerical approaches. However, numerical approaches have been frequently simplified because of insufficient computing power. T…
View article: 6. MESH INDEPENDENCY STUDY FOR A SOLAR GLAZED TRANSPIRED COLLECTOR
6. MESH INDEPENDENCY STUDY FOR A SOLAR GLAZED TRANSPIRED COLLECTOR Open
The Building Services and Energy Efficiency (BSEE) Conference is an event that has become traditional in the world of civil engineering, since 1990. The main organizer is the Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iasi, Faculty of Civil E…
View article: Numerical study of the air distribution in the Crew Quarters on board of the International Space Station
Numerical study of the air distribution in the Crew Quarters on board of the International Space Station Open
The current concept of Crew Quarters on board of the International Space Station has several issues according to the crew member’s feedback. Major issues concern noise levels, the accumulation of CO2 and the quality of the air distribution…
View article: Numerical simulation and comparison of two ventilation methods for a restaurant – displacement vs mixed flow ventilation
Numerical simulation and comparison of two ventilation methods for a restaurant – displacement vs mixed flow ventilation Open
This paper presents a comparison between a displacement ventilation method and a mixed flow ventilation method using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) approach. The paper analyses different aspects of the two systems, like the draft effec…