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Stefania Perrella, Fabio Bisegna, Piero Bevilacqua, Daniela Cirone and Roberto Bruno
In the EU, the building sector is responsible for 40% of the global energy consumption for final uses and 36% of the carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Heat pumps allow for the replacement of conventional systems based on fossil fuels with the perspective o...
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Lu Wang, Yiming Li, Zhouping Sun, Sida Meng, Tianlai Li and Xingan Liu
Solar greenhouses are commonly overheated during the day, and the remaining air heat can only be dissipated through ventilation, which is a severe energy waste problem. In order to improve the energy utilization of the greenhouse, this study proposes a w...
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Xiaoyang Li, Xiaohui Lin, Changyue Xu and Zhuopei Li
The calculation of a cockpit?s transient thermal load is important for determining the capacity of the cockpit environmental control system, ensuring the safety of electronic equipment and increasing the health and comfort of cockpit occupants. According...
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Ibrahim Tursunovic and Davide Papurello
The energy sector is the main source of greenhouse gases, so it has the highest potential for improvement. The improvements can be achieved by generating energy from renewable sources. It is necessary to combine production from renewable sources with sto...
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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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N. Marc-Alain Mutombo, Freddie Inambao, Glen Bright
The conversion of solar irradiance into electricity by a photovoltaic module (PV) is 6? 7% of the incoming energy from the sun depending on the type of technology and the environmental parameters. More than 80% of incoming energy from the sun is reflecte...
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Kiho Nishihara, Kei-ichi Okuyama, Rafael Rodriguez and Isai Fajardo
In this study, we focus on 3D-printed PEEK/CFRTP (Carbon-Fiber-Reinforced Thermoplastic) and PEEK (Polyether Ether Ketone) materials as new space materials. In space, there are intense ultraviolet (UV) rays that are weakened by the atmosphere on Earth, s...
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Carlos Pérez-Carramiñana, Ángel Benigno González-Avilés, Nuria Castilla and Antonio Galiano-Garrigós
The dry Mediterranean climate (BShs) is the European region with the highest number of hours of sunshine per year. The high annual solar radiation makes sun shading devices necessary to comply with current energy efficiency standards. However, these stan...
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Sylvain Rodat and Richard Thonig
Solar energy is not only the most abundant energy on earth but it is also renewable. The use of this energy is expanding very rapidly mainly through photovoltaic technology. However, electricity storage remains a bottleneck in tackling solar resource var...
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Leonard Vance, Agustin Espinoza, Jorge Martinez Dominguez, Salil Rabade, Gavin Liu and Jekan Thangavelautham
Sustainable space exploration will require using off-world resources for propellant generation. Using off-world-generated propellants significantly increases future missions? range and payload capacity. Near Earth Objects (NEOs) contain a range of availa...
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