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Seda Sahin and Ayse Torun
This study was primarily conducted to investigate the potential use of pumpkin seed oil in biodiesel production. Initially, the fatty acid composition of oils extracted from discarded pumpkin seeds was determined. Then, biodiesel produced from discarded ...
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Kirttayoth Yeranee, Yu Rao, Chao Xu, Yueliang Zhang and Xiyuan Su
Additive manufacturing allows the fabrication of relatively complex cooling structures, such as triply periodic minimal surface (TPMS), which offers high heat transfer per unit volume. This study shows the turbulent flow heat transfer and thermal stress ...
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Wenfei Guan, Wenzhong Guo, Fan Chen, Xiaobei Han, Haiguang Wang, Weituo Sun, Qian Zhao, Dongdong Jia, Xiaoming Wei and Qingzhen Zhu
To address the issues of excessive heat loss from the roofs of multi-span greenhouses and high energy consumption for heating during winter production, we propose an approach for the external insulation of the roof of multi-span glass greenhouses and hav...
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Dadi Zhang, Kwok-Wai Mui and Ling-Tim Wong
In the past two decades, with advances in data collection and in analytical techniques and tools, there has been a significant increase in research on indoor environmental quality (IEQ) assessment. To better understand the relationships between the overa...
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Xiao Zhang, Weitao Liu, Mengting Cao, Shuo Zhang and Jiaoyun Hou
Current research efforts aim to develop insulating building materials to cope with hot tunnels by using crop straw fibers. The amount of straw fiber incorporated included different percentages of the gelling material mass: 0% (reference specimen), 2.5%, ...
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Haiyang Liu and Enlin Ma
The concentration of atmospheric greenhouse gases is being amplified by human activity. Building energy consumption, particularly for heating and cooling purposes, constitutes a significant proportion of overall energy demand. This research aims to estab...
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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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Samia Hamdane, Luis Carlos Carvalho Pires, Pedro Dinho Silva and Pedro Dinis Gaspar
The thermal performance and environmental impact of agricultural greenhouses (GH) connected to earth-to-air heat exchanger (EAHE) systems depend on the ambient temperature, soil temperature, EAHE system, and greenhouse specifications. The impact of an EA...
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Imran Shabir Chuhan, Jing Li, Ziyu Guo, Muhammad Yaqub and Malik Abdul Manan
The main purpose of this study is to investigate the thermal behavior of power law fluid within a plus-shaped cavity under the influence of natural convection, also taking into account the Darcy number and magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). The problem is formu...
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Dongdong Ye, Rui Li, Jianfei Xu and Jiabao Pan
Accurate measurement of porosity is crucial for comprehensive performance evaluation of thermal barrier coatings (TBCs) on aero-engine blades. In this study, a novel data-driven predictive method based on terahertz time-domain spectroscopy (THz-TDS) was ...
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