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Yadong Zheng, Lianying Zhang, Peng Wu, Xiaoqian Guo, Ming Li and Fuqiang Zhu
The physical and mechanical properties of rocks change significantly after being subjected to high temperatures, which poses safety hazards to underground projects such as coal underground gasification. In order to investigate the effect of temperature o...
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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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Jan Spriet, Ajeet Pratap Singh, Brian Considine, Madhu K. Murali and Aonghus McNabola
This paper assesses the performance of waste heat recovery from commercial kitchen wastewater in practice. A pilot study of heat recovery from the kitchen at Penrhyn Castle, a tourist attraction in North Wales (UK), is outlined. The pilot heat recovery s...
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Zhaoyi Zhuang, Jin Zhao, Fengfeng Mi, Teng Zhang, Yuguo Hao and Shangyue Li
Heat pump technology can extract low-level heat energy from urban sewage to heat or cool buildings, which can alleviate the two major problems of energy shortage and environmental pollution to a certain extent. This paper introduces the principle of wast...
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Juan Prieto, Dereje S. Ayou and Alberto Coronas
The aim of this study is to analyze the feasibility of the single-effect H2O/LiBr absorption heat pump cycle to produce combined heating and cooling. To achieve this, first, the main changes that the absorption cycle requires are described in comparison ...
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Candelaria Tejada-Tovar, Ángel Villabona-Ortíz, Ángel Darío González-Delgado, Adriana Herrera-Barros and Rodrigo Ortega-Toro
Water treatment alternatives such as adsorption using agricultural residues are currently being studied to eliminate pollutants that cause eutrophication in water bodies, avoiding the alteration of aquatic ecosystems. In this work, two bio-adsorbents wer...
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Xiaoyu Gao, Meng Jia, Shanshan Cao and Chengying Qi
The refined control of heating substations is of great significance for on-demand heating provision and for the efficient operation of district heating systems (DHSs). This paper proposes an integrated control strategy for substations based on the predic...
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Dawei Huang, Hongting Ma, Shuo Ma, Mo Chen, Chang Xu, Yongyichuan Zhang and Cong Yan
The solar-assisted electric boiler water heating systems adopted in student apartments at universities have some shortcomings, such as unsuitable system designs, unstable water supply temperature, and excessive power consumption. As discussed in this pap...
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Amir Tabakovic, Christopher Faloon and Declan O?Prey
Conductive alginate capsules encapsulating a bitumen rejuvenator (HealRoad capsules) is a unique self-healing asphalt technology which reinforces the asphalt pavement by improving its tensile and compressive strength and enhances its autonomous healing p...
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Nabil Nassif, Mostafa Tahmasebi, Iffat Ridwana and Pejman Ebrahimi
Buildings account for a large portion of the total energy use in the US; therefore, improving the operation of typical variable-air-volume (VAV) systems in buildings can provide a tremendous economic opportunity. ASHRAE Guideline 36 recommends a resettin...
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