Energy analysis and EMERGY analysis—a comparison

Traditional energy analysis in Building Information Modeling (BIM) only accounts for the energy requirements of building operations during a portion of the occupancy phase of the building’s life cycle and as such is unable to quantify the true impact of buildings on the environment. Specifically, the typical energy analysis in BIM does not account for the energy associated with resource formation, recycling, and demolition. Therefore, a comprehensive method is required to analyze the true environmental impact of buildings. Emergy analysis can offer a holistic approach to account for the environmental cost of activities involved in building construction and operation in all its life cycle phases from resource formation to demolition. As such, the integration of emergy analysis with BIM can result in the development of a holistic sustainability performance tool. Therefore, this study aimed at developing a comprehensive framework for the integration of emergy analysis with existing Building Information Modeling tools. The proposed framework was validated using a case study involving a test building element of 8’ × 8’ composite wall. The case study demonstrated the successful integration of emergy analysis with Revit®2021 using the inbuilt features of Revit and external tools such as MS Excel. The framework developed in this study will help in accurately determining the environmental cost of the buildings, which will help in selecting environment-friendly building materials and systems. In addition, the integration of emergy into BIM will allow a comparison of various built environment alternatives enabling designers to make sustainable decisions during the design phase.

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Embodied energy analysis and EMERGY analysis: a comparative view

Ecological Economics ◽

10.1016/s0921-8009(96)00046-8 ◽

1996 ◽

Vol 19 (3) ◽

pp. 219-235 ◽

Cited By ~ 294

Author(s):

M.T Brown ◽

R.A Herendeen

Keyword(s):

Energy Analysis ◽

Embodied Energy ◽

Emergy Analysis

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A General Method for Spectrometer Design in the Scoff Approximation

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100092657 ◽

1976 ◽

Vol 34 ◽

pp. 538-539

Author(s):

J. R. Fields

Keyword(s):

Electron Microscope ◽

Transmission Electron Microscope ◽

Energy Analysis ◽

Incident Beam ◽

Scanning Transmission Electron Microscope ◽

Chemical Identification ◽

Scanning Transmission Electron ◽

Transmission Electron ◽

Scanning Transmission ◽

General Method

The energy analysis of electrons scattered by a specimen in a scanning transmission electron microscope can improve contrast as well as aid in chemical identification. In so far as energy analysis is useful, one would like to be able to design a spectrometer which is tailored to his particular needs. In our own case, we require a spectrometer which will accept a parallel incident beam and which will focus the electrons in both the median and perpendicular planes. In addition, since we intend to follow the spectrometer by a detector array rather than a single energy selecting slit, we need as great a dispersion as possible. Therefore, we would like to follow our spectrometer by a magnifying lens. Consequently, the line along which electrons of varying energy are dispersed must be normal to the direction of the central ray at the spectrometer exit.

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EXELFS Studies of Carbon Fibers

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100133953 ◽

1990 ◽

Vol 48 (2) ◽

pp. 72-73

Author(s):

V. Serin ◽

K. Hssein ◽

G. Zanchi ◽

J. Sévely

Keyword(s):

Carbon Fibers ◽

Energy Analysis ◽

Electron Excitation ◽

Complex Structures ◽

High Modulus ◽

Promising Technique ◽

X Ray ◽

Fine Structures ◽

X Ray Absorption

The present developments of electron energy analysis in the microscopes by E.E.L.S. allow an accurate recording of the spectra and of their different complex structures associated with the inner shell electron excitation by the incident electrons (1). Among these structures, the Extended Energy Loss Fine Structures (EXELFS) are of particular interest. They are equivalent to the well known EXAFS oscillations in X-ray absorption spectroscopy. Due to the EELS characteristic, the Fourier analysis of EXELFS oscillations appears as a promising technique for the characterization of composite materials, the major constituents of which are low Z elements. Using EXELFS, we have developed a microstructural study of carbon fibers. This analysis concerns the carbon K edge, which appears in the spectra at 285 eV. The purpose of the paper is to compare the local short range order, determined by this way in the case of Courtauld HTS and P100 ex-polyacrylonitrile carbon fibers, which are high tensile strength (HTS) and high modulus (HM) fibers respectively.

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A Fault Detection Approach Based on Sound Signal Analysis for Equipment Monitoring

International Journal of Scientific Research in Science Engineering and Technology ◽

10.32628/ijsrset207430 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 129-139

Author(s):

Weihai Sun ◽

Lemei Han

Keyword(s):

Fault Detection ◽

Signal Analysis ◽

Energy Analysis ◽

Detection Method ◽

Sound Signal ◽

Practical Significance ◽

Time Frequency ◽

Detection Approach ◽

Machine Fault ◽

Learning Data

Machine fault detection has great practical significance. Compared with the detection method that requires external sensors, the detection of machine fault by sound signal does not need to destroy its structure. The current popular audio-based fault detection often needs a lot of learning data and complex learning process, and needs the support of known fault database. The fault detection method based on audio proposed in this paper only needs to ensure that the machine works normally in the first second. Through the correlation coefficient calculation, energy analysis, EMD and other methods to carry out time-frequency analysis of the subsequent collected sound signals, we can detect whether the machine has fault.

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Experimental and Statistical Energy Analysis of the Structure-borne Noise in a Helicopter Cabin

International Review of Aerospace Engineering (IREASE) ◽

10.15866/irease.v10i6.13120 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 10 (6) ◽

pp. 323

Author(s):

Raffaella Di Sante ◽

Marcello Vanali ◽

Elisabetta Manconi ◽

Alessandro Perazzolo

Keyword(s):

Energy Analysis ◽

Statistical Energy Analysis

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Energy analysis of propulsion systems for high speed vehicles

10.2514/6.1989-182 ◽

1989 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

PAUL CZYSZ ◽

S. MURTHY

Keyword(s):

High Speed ◽

Energy Analysis ◽

Propulsion Systems

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Theoretical investigation of Ramachandran plot of N-formyl-L-alanine-amide

10.31221/osf.io/8gbdp ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Chem Int

Keyword(s):

Genetic Algorithm ◽

Theoretical Investigation ◽

Energy Analysis ◽

Empirical Method ◽

Conformational Space ◽

Ramachandran Plot ◽

Global Minima ◽

Reasonable Time ◽

Semi Empirical

The full conformational space of N-formyl-L-alanine-amide was explored by the semi-empirical method AM1 coupled to the Multi Niche Crowding (MNC) genetic algorithm implemented in a package of programs developed in our laboratory. The structural and energy analysis of the resulting conformational space E(,ψ) exhibits 5 regions or minima ɣL, ɣD, ɛL, D and αD. The technique provides better detection of local and global minima within a reasonable time.

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