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Stavros Misopoulos, Dirk Nather and Jose Marques-Hueso
Much scientific equipment requires the use of humidity control technologies. This includes instruments with hygroscopic optics, such as infrared spectrometers, OPOs and some lasers. The most common strategies include nitrogen purging or desiccant bag rep...
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Henriette Fischer and Azra Korjenic
The use of renewable building materials in construction is crucial to minimising the environmental impact of new buildings. Bio-based building materials have a wide range of positive properties, many of which are due to their hygroscopic behaviour. The p...
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Depeng Chen, Xin Chen, Zhiwei Ma, Yaodong Wang, Anthony Paul Roskilly and Jian Zhou
Adsorption-based thermochemical heat storage is a promising long-term energy storage technology that can be used for seasonal space heating, which has received significant amount of efforts on the research and development. In this paper, the heat storage...
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Alessandra Ranesi, Magda Posani, Rosário Veiga and Paulina Faria
In Southern European countries, due to the specific climate, economy and culture, a permanent heating practice during winter is not widely adopted. This may have a significant effect on the performance of indoor coating materials, typically tested consid...
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Song He, Wang Chen, Wansheng Yang and Xudong Zhao
Air conditioning energy consumption accounts for most building energy consumption, indoor dehumidification is the main cause of air conditioning energy consumption. Optimize the dehumidification methods of air conditioning systems have great significance...
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Beatrice Bartolucci, Francesca Frasca, Anna Maria Siani and Chiara Bertolin
Under constant temperature conditions, air relative humidity variations affect hygroscopic objects, such as wood, modifying their moisture content and provoking, at low values, damages and fractures. The parameters (amplitude, counts, and energy) derived...
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Purificación García-Segovia, Marta Igual and Javier Martínez-Monzó
Beetroot is a root vegetable with carotenoids, phenols, vitamins, minerals, and water-soluble betalain pigments such as betacyanins (red-violet color) and betaxanthins (yellow-orange color), which have many nutritional and health benefits. Its use in the...
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Jan Fort, Jan Kocí, Jaroslav Pokorný, Lubo? Podolka, Michal Kraus and Robert Cerný
Ambient comfort maintenance accompanied by excessive energy consumption is hugely criticized concerning the limited sustainability of the building sector in the long-term. In this sense, the energy reduction strategies based on the employment of passive ...
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Matthew S. Glascock, Joshua L. Rovey and Kurt A. Polzin
Electric solid propellants are advanced solid chemical rocket propellants that can be controlled (ignited, throttled and extinguished) through the application and removal of an electric current. This behavior may enable the propellant to be used in multi...
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Shui Yu, Yumeng Cui, Yifei Shao and Fuhong Han
This paper presents the research status of hygroscopic materials, points out the weak links as targets for major breakthroughs, and introduces humidifying mechanisms and their categories. In this paper, we simulated a single-monomer Shenyang office build...
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