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Marta Fernandes Oliveira, Paulo Mendonça, Martin Tenpierik, Pedro Santiago, José F. Silva and Lígia Torres Silva
How to analyse the omissions of thermal regulations and evaluate methodologies that provide building execution or thermal certificates that do not correspond to reality and usually incur costs? We can start by analysing different simulation methods and s...
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Omar S. Asfour, Osama Mohsen and Jamal Al-Qawasmi
This study investigates the impact of building grouping patterns on enhancing shading in public open spaces, considering different solar orientations, housing densities, and the hot climatic conditions of Saudi Arabia. The study considered a set of envir...
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Youssef Karout, Axel Curcio, Julien Eynard, Stéphane Thil, Sylvain Rodat, Stéphane Abanades, Valéry Vuillerme and Stéphane Grieu
The present paper deals with both the modeling and the dynamic control of a solar hybrid thermochemical reactor designed to produce syngas through the high-temperature steam gasification of biomass. First, a model of the reactor based on the thermodynami...
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Ali Saberi-Derakhtenjani, Andreas K. Athienitis, Ursula Eicker and Edwin Rodriguez-Ubinas
Radiant floor systems offer significant potential for studying and developing energy flexibility strategies for buildings and their interaction with smart grids. Efficient design and operation of such systems require several critical decisions on design ...
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Laura Annabelle Bugenings and Aliakbar Kamari
Due to climate change, the rise in global temperature causes an increased need for cooling to satisfy occupants? thermal comfort. Application of architecture passive design strategies, so-called bioclimatic architecture strategies, based on the local cli...
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Iván Hernández-Pérez
Building roofs are sources of unwanted heat for buildings situated in zones with a warm climate. Thus, reflective coatings have emerged as an alternative to reject a fraction of the solar energy received by roofs. In this research, the thermal behavior o...
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Szabolcs Szima, Carlos Arnaiz del Pozo, Schalk Cloete, Szabolcs Fogarasi, Ángel Jiménez Álvaro, Ana-Maria Cormos, Calin-Cristian Cormos and Shahriar Amini
Cost-effective CO2 capture and storage (CCS) is critical for the rapid global decarbonization effort recommended by climate science. The increase in levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) of plants with CCS is primarily associated to the large energy penal...
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Christoph Schünemann, David Schiela and Regine Ortlepp
Can building performance simulation reproduce measured summertime indoor conditions of a multi-residential building in good conformity? This question is answered by calibrating simulated to monitored room temperatures of several rooms of a multi-resident...
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Katia Jiménez Mejía, María del Mar Barbero-Barrera and Manuel Rodríguez Pérez
Construction materials and systems for the thermal building envelope have played a key role in the improvement of energy efficiency in buildings. Urban heat islands together with the upcoming rising global temperature demand construction solutions that a...
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Off-grid solar home systems (SHSs) currently constitute a major source of providing basic electricity needs in un(der)-electrified regions of the world, with around 73 million households having benefited from off-grid solar solutions by 2017. However, in...
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