Browsing by Subject "Energy efficiency"
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Airflow characteristics and thermal comfort of air diffusers
(ASME, 2023)Indoor environment quality control is very important for building operations as occupant of buildings spend up to 90% of their time indoors. After Covid-19 pandemic break out, indoor environment quality has become even ... -
Augmenting occupant thermal experience with cyber-physical-social systems : a case study on adaptive vents
(2020-06-11)Buildings use more than 30% of global energy, while 36% of this energy comes from direct combustion of fossil fuels. Hence, buildings constitute a considerable share of CO2 emissions and has a large contribution to climate ... -
Cascaded thermodynamic and environmental analyses of energy generation modalities of a high-performance building based on real-time measurements
(MDPI AG, 2020-04)This study presents cascaded thermodynamic and environmental analyses of a high-performance academic building. Five different energy efficiency measures and operation scenarios are evaluated based on the actual measurements ... -
Coordinated beamforming design for multi-user multi-cell MIMO VLC networks
(IEEE, 2022-06)Inter-cell interference (ICI) and inter-user interference (IUI) constitute a major issue towards achieving the optimum spectral efficiency (SE) and energy efficiency (EE) performance in multi-cell visible light communication ... -
Digital data integration project between a DSO and a university for sustainability and efficiency
(IEEE, 2022)Digitization in the energy sector enables big data analysis that can lead to large-scale energy efficiency due to the size of the sector and thus getting closer to sustainability targets. With a digital data integration ... -
Energy efficiency analysis and improving performance of light emitting diodes
(2018-12)Energy efficiency of light sources continually increases as the technology advance. Traditional light sources have inefficiency, large sizes, short life times and poisonous mercury vapor. On the other hand, the improvements ... -
Energy efficiency in residential buildings using nano-wood composite materials
(IAEME Publication, 2018-03)Wood is one of the conventional building materials in the world, due to its availability and sustainability in nature. The electric and thermal conductivity of wood have made it exceptional among the other conventional ... -
Energy optimized routing with directional antennas and tagging for multimedia sensor networks
(IEEE, 2018-04-24)Several routing optimization strategies have been proposed in research for Wireless Multimedia Sensor Network (WMSN), because of unavailability of the external power source. In this paper, a global energy optimization ... -
Evaluating the impact of building envelope on energy performance: Cooling analyses
(Golden Light Publishing, 2022-03-31)Buildings require a significant amount of energy for heating, cooling, and lighting. Hence, building energy performance has become one of the most important topics in the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) ... -
An evaluation of energy efficiency measures in a Turkish campus building for thermal comfort and economic risk
(International Building Performance Simulation Association, 2015)As new and retrofitted Turkish buildings adopt stateof-the-art energy efficiency measures, hidden risks associated with compromised thermal comfort and disappointing returns on investment could go unnoticed unless a building ... -
Human body heat exchange mechanism and thermal comfort via visual impact
(2019-12)Thermal comfort is a combination of several components and can be described in many ways while for all definitions the precedence is human. In this thesis, thermal comfort is examined through the environmental differences ... -
Learning to exploit passive compliance for energy-efficient gait generation on a compliant humanoid
(Springer Nature, 2019-01)Modern humanoid robots include not only active compliance but also passive compliance. Apart from improved safety and dependability, availability of passive elements, such as springs, opens up new possibilities for improving ... -
Multicore energy efficient scheduling with energy harvesting for wireless multimedia sensor networks
(IEEE, 2017-07-02)Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks (WMSNs) are becoming one of the latest trends in the Internet of things. However, in WMSNs the energy constraint is a significant issue. In this paper, an idea of integrating energy ... -
An occupant-oriented circular model for facility management strategy
(2018-08)Facility management (FM) concept should be re-considered for the next generation of strategic operations of buildings and should be human-focused. Traditional FM strategies are based on designs by the stakeholders and ... -
On occupant behavior and innovation studies towards high performance buildings: a transdisciplinary approach
(MDPI, 2018-10-06)With ever-increasing population and urbanization, it is crucial to decrease energy density in the built environment without sacrificing occupants’ comfort and well-being. This requires consideration of technological ... -
Optimal sizing and techno-enviro-economic feasibility assessment of solar tracker-based hybrid energy systems for rural electrification in Sudan
(Elsevier, 2023-03)Hybrid power systems (HPS) based on photovoltaic (PV), diesel generators (DG), and energy storage systems (ESS) are widely used solutions for the energy supply of off-grid or isolated areas. The main hybridizing challenges ... -
Science mapping the knowledge domain of energy performance research in the AEC industry: A scientometric analysis
(Elsevier, 2023-02-01)This study aims to reveal the current state of energy performance research in the AEC industry and literature. The research objective is to identify hot topics (i.e., knowledge domain) and hot keywords (i.e., knowledge ... -
The use of building performance simulation tools in undergraduate program course training
(2015)Not only in building construction industry, but also in engineering and architectural education the use of simulation tools has a great interest. Rapid advances in the capabilities of simulation tools and computer ...
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