Publications related to European residential ventilation: Investigating the impact on health and energy demand

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Influence of outdoor air pollution on European residential ventilative cooling potential

Residential ventilative cooling via natural ventilation is influenced by outdoor air pollution. However, relative to climate, outdoor air pollution is not comprehensively considered in determining the ventilative cooling potential of buildings. To assess t ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2023

Heat exchange potential of energy tunnels for different internal airflow characteristics

Pascal Turberg

Energy tunnels allow the harvesting of untapped heat at shallow depths in the underground to meet the thermal energy requirements of buildings and infrastructures over large areas. Such heat can derive from two sources: the ground surrounding energy tunnel ...

ELSEVIER2022

Global Environmental Stimuli and Human-Building Interaction in Open Space Offices: A Swiss Case Study

Marilyne Andersen, Jan Wienold, Dolaana Khovalyg, Dusan Licina, Caroline Karmann, Verena Marie Barthelmes, Arnab Chatterjee, Maria Viviana Gonzalez Serrano

Office employees are exposed to a variety of environmental and contextual stimuli that might drive them to perform control actions, such as operating windows or window blinds. These actions have a significant impact on building energy use and increase unce ...

AMER SOC HEATING, REFRIGERATING AND AIR-CONDITIONING ENGS2021

Systematic Method for the Energy-Saving Potential Calculation of Air-Conditioning Systems via Data Mining. Part I: Methodology

Shen Yang, Xianlin Wang

Air-conditioning systems contribute the most to energy consumption among building equipment. Hence, energy saving for air-conditioning systems would be the essence of reducing building energy consumption. The conventional energy-saving diagnosis method thr ...

2021

Pcm-based heat exchanger and uses thereof

Matthieu Gani, Véronique Michaud, Sophia Haussener

A PCM-based heat exchanger is disclosed, said phase change material (PCM)-based heat exchanger comprising: a) a case having insulated walls comprising an inlet and an outlet; and b) a plurality of modules comprising a support structure containing a phase c ...

2019

The Scale-Dependent Behaviour of Cities: A Cross-Cities Multiscale Driver Analysis of Urban Energy Use

Franziska Meinherz, João Vitor Meirelles de Miranda, Aristide Henri Roger Athanassiadis

Hosting more than half of the world population, cities are currently responsible for two thirds of the global energy use and three quarters of the global CO2 emissions related to energy use. As humanity becomes more urbanized, urban systems are becoming a ...

2019

Homogeneous Catalysis for Sustainable Hydrogen Storage in Formic Acid and Alcohols

Paul Joseph Dyson, Katerina Stefania Sordakis

Hydrogen gas is a storable form of chemical energy that could complement intermittent renewable energy conversion. One of the main disadvantages of hydrogen gas arises from its low density, and therefore, efficient handling and storage methods are key fact ...

2018

Energy transition potential in peri-urban dwellings: Assessment of theoretical scenarios in the Swiss context

Emmanuel Rey, Sophie Lufkin, Judith Elisa Drouilles

This paper investigates the theoretical capacity of the Swiss peri-urban dwelling stock to meet energy efficiency requirements through incremental scenarios. The notion of “typical dwelling” allows the assessment of housing energy efficiency at the country ...

2017

ETEM-SG: Optimizing Regional Smart Energy System with Power Distribution Constraints and Options

Frédéric Louis François Babonneau

This paper gives a detailed description of the ETEM-SG model, which pro- vides a simulation of the long term development of a multi-energy regional energy system in a smart city environment. The originality of the modeling comes from a representation of th ...

2017

Experimental Determination of Optical and Thermal Properties of Semi-transparent Photovoltaic Modules Based on Dye-sensitized Solar Cells

Josef Andreas Schuler, Olivia Valérie Charlotte Bouvard, Sara Vanzo

The demand for energy efficiency of buildings and on-site electricity production is rising. Building integrated photovoltaic can provide a part of the electricity demand. Many studies are related to the module efficiency. However, architectural integration ...

2015