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Ali Ghahremani, Scott D. Adams, Michael Norton, Sui Yang Khoo and Abbas Z. Kouzani
Solar panels are an environmentally friendly alternative to fossil fuels; however, their useful life is limited to approximately 25 years, after which they become a waste management issue. Proper management and recycling of end-of-life (EOL) solar panels...
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Fangbin Wang, Zini Wang, Zhong Chen, Darong Zhu, Xue Gong and Wanlin Cong
To overcome the deficiencies in segmenting hot spots from thermal infrared images, such as difficulty extracting the edge features, low accuracy, and a high missed detection rate, an improved Mask R-CNN photovoltaic hot spot thermal image segmentation al...
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Alexandru-Mihai Bulmez, Vasile Ciofoaia, Gabriel Nastase, George Dragomir, Alin-Ionu? Brezeanu, Nicolae-Fani Iordan, Sorin-Ionu? Bolocan, Mariana Fratu, Costel Ple?can, Christiana Emilia Cazacu and Ovidiu Deaconu
Human interference with the Earth?s climate cannot be ignored any longer. Renewable energy sources need utmost attention in all energy sectors. For buildings, geothermal energy for heating, cooling, and domestic hot water is a sustainable solution. Horiz...
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Mohammed A. Qasim, Vladimir I. Velkin and Sergey E. Shcheklein
At the present time, the entire world is suffering from global climate change due to emissions caused by the combustion of fossil fuels. Thus, it is necessary to look for alternative power sources to generate clean electrical energy. Thermoelectric gener...
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Ravijanya Chippagiri, Hindavi R. Gavali, Ana Bras and Rahul V. Ralegaonkar
The increasing urban population requires rapid housing construction. Rising global temperatures have led to more space cooling options inside buildings. There is a need to design new-age buildings with a sustainable, thermal comfort, and energy-efficienc...
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Daniel Kalús, Daniela Koudelková, Veronika Mucková, Martin Sokol, Mária Kurcová and Peter Janík
Research Area: Building components with integrated energy-active elements (BCEAE) are generally referred to as combined building-energy systems (CBES). Aim: Research on the application of energy (solar) roofs (ESR), ground heat storage (GHS), active ther...
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Navid Khordehgah, Alina Zabnienska-Góra and Hussam Jouhara
In this paper, a standalone photovoltaics-thermal solar panel is modelled using the TRNSYS simulation engine. Based on this, it was explored how such a system can be comprised of thermal and electrical storage components to provide electricity and hot wa...
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Baofeng Huang and Wensheng Lu
The multi-physical properties of the building envelope play a major role in the energy efficiency of buildings. Translucent concrete panels (TCPs) with various volumetric ratios of optical fibers (OFs) were cast. To understand the multi-physical properti...
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Bashar Alsadik and Fabio Remondino
In the last two decades, unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) were successfully used in different environments for diverse applications like territorial mapping, heritage 3D documentation, as built surveys, construction monitoring, solar panel placement and a...
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Samuel Sami
This paper discusses the performance of nanofluids in a PV Thermal-driven Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) with cooling capabilities. This study was intended to investigate the enhancement effect and characteristics of nanofluids; Al2O3, CuO, Fe3O4 and SiO2 o...
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