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Irene Fernández García, Daniele Novara and Aonghus Mc Nabola
Pressure Reducing Valves (PRV) have been widely used as a device to control pressure at nodes in water distribution networks and thus reduce leakages. However, an energy dissipation takes place during PRV operation. Thus, micro-hydropower turbines and, m...
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Sylvain Rodat and Richard Thonig
Solar energy is not only the most abundant energy on earth but it is also renewable. The use of this energy is expanding very rapidly mainly through photovoltaic technology. However, electricity storage remains a bottleneck in tackling solar resource var...
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Alice Rene? Di Rocco, Dario Bottino-Leone, Alexandra Troi and Daniel Herrera-Avellanosa
The challenge of transforming historic buildings and city centers into energy-self-sufficient environments requires innovative solutions. The research project ?BiPV meets History? addressed this challenge by providing comprehensive guidelines for assessi...
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Amanda Barros, Eva Barreira, Lino Maia and Maria Lurdes Lopes
Innovation in construction plays a fundamental role in helping us face current challenges, namely the reduction in energy consumption, the mitigation of the effects of climate change, the depletion of resources, and the generation of waste. Regarding the...
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Wahhaj Ahmed, Baqer Al-Ramadan, Muhammad Asif and Zulfikar Adamu
Energy and environmental challenges are a major concern across the world and the urban residential building sector, being one of the main stakeholders in energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, needs to be more energy efficient and reduce carbon...
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Carlos Matos, Pedro Cabrera, José A. Carta and Noemi Melián-Martel
Water scarcity is a global problem that particularly affects islands located in arid regions or regions with limited water resources. This issue has prompted the development of non-conventional water sources such as fossil fuel-powered desalination syste...
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Yuyang Liu, Bo Feng and Yu Yao
With the intensification of water pollution problems worldwide, constructed wetlands, as a green, efficient, and energy-saving wastewater treatment technology, have gradually attracted the wide attention of scholars at home and abroad. In order to better...
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Sorin Zoican, Roxana Zoican, Dan Galatchi and Marius Vochin
This paper illustrates a general framework in which a neural network application can be easily integrated and proposes a traffic forecasting approach that uses neural networks based on graphs. Neural networks based on graphs have the advantage of capturi...
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Alexandra Ionelia Manolache, Gabriel Andrei and Liliana Rusu
The development of novel solar power technologies is regarded as one of the essential solutions to meeting the world?s rising energy demand. Floating photovoltaic panels (FPV) have several advantages over land-based installations, including faster deploy...
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Elissaios Sarmas, Evangelos Spiliotis, Nikos Dimitropoulos, Vangelis Marinakis and Haris Doukas
Energy efficiency financing is considered among the top priorities in the energy sector among several stakeholders. In this context, accurately estimating the energy savings achieved by energy efficiency actions before being approved and implemented is o...
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