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Nichapa Parasin and Teerachai Amnuaylojaroen
A heat index is a key indicator directly related to meteorological factors influencing human health, particularly work performance. However, the interaction between air quality, meteorology, heat, and associated work performance is loosely defined, espec...
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Juliana May Sangoi, Taylana Piccinini Scolaro and Enedir Ghisi
The performance of water heating systems must be evaluated considering energy consumption and efficiency in storing and distributing hot water, together with building and climate characteristics. This work aims to analyse the performance of different wat...
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Michael Tesfaye Bekele and Cemil Atakara
Residential buildings have a list of functions, and one of the top priories is the thermal comfort of its occupants. Thermal comfort can be one of the measurements of successful building performance, and it can be addressed in various ways to provide a g...
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Rocío Escandón, Carmen María Calama-González, Alicia Alonso, Rafael Suárez and Ángel Luis León-Rodríguez
Climate change will have a great impact on the hottest climates of southern Europe and the existing residential stock will be extremely vulnerable to these future climatic conditions. Therefore, there is an urgent need to update this building stock consi...
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Haijing Huang, Kedi Zhu and Xi Lin
The full exploration of the energy-saving potential during the operation of buildings is an essential aspect of energy-efficiency retrofitting for existing residential buildings. Setting reasonable energy consumption quotas can promote the improvement of...
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Cheng Lin and Yunting Lin
Recently, metaheuristic algorithms have been recognized as applicable techniques for solving various computational complexities in energy problems. In this work, a powerful metaheuristic technique called the water cycle algorithm (WCA) is assessed for an...
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Ancu?a Maria Magurean and Horia Alexandru Petran
The purpose of this study was to analyze the indoor air quality, in particular, the CO2 level, in a real environment, within 16 apartments located in the municipality of Zalau, Romania, in five recently renovated multifamily buildings in which families l...
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Ali Habeeb Askar, Endre Kovács and Betti Bolló
This study aimed to estimate the heating load (HL) and the cooling load (CL) of a residential building using neural networks and to simulate the thermal behavior of a four-layered wall with different orientations. The neural network models were developed...
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Evangelos Bellos, Panagiotis Lykas and Christos Tzivanidis
The exploitation of renewable energy sources in the building sector is a challenging aspect of achieving sustainability. The incorporation of a proper storage unit is a vital issue for managing properly renewable electricity production and so to avoid th...
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Ibrahim Shaer and Abdallah Shami
Residential and industrial buildings are significant consumers of energy, which can be reduced by controlling their respective Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems. Demand-based Ventilation (DCV) determines the operational times of v...
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