Preparation and assessment of the potential energy savings of thermochromic and cool coatings considering inter-building effects

Solar Energy ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 209 ◽  
pp. 493-504
Author(s):  
Umberto Berardi ◽  
Massimo Garai ◽  
Thomas Morselli
2021 ◽  
pp. 1420326X2199241
Author(s):  
Hanlin Li ◽  
Dan Wu ◽  
Yanping Yuan ◽  
Lijun Zuo

In the past 30 years, tubular daylight guide systems (TDGSs) have become one of the most popular ways to transport outdoor natural light into the inner space in building design. However, tubular daylight guide systems are not widely used because of the lack of methods to evaluate methods on the suitability of the TDGSs. This study therefore summarizes the daylight performance metrics of TDGSs and presents the estimation methods in terms of field measurements, simulation and empirical formulae. This study focuses on the daylight performance and potential energy savings of TDGSs. Moreover, this study will be helpful for building designers to build healthy, comfortable and energy-saving indoor environment.


Energy Policy ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 45 ◽  
pp. 739-751 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jing Ke ◽  
Nina Zheng ◽  
David Fridley ◽  
Lynn Price ◽  
Nan Zhou

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher L. K. Wang

As sleep is unconscious, the traditional definition of thermal comfort with conscious judgment does not apply. In this thesis sleep thermal comfort is defined as the thermal condition which enables sleep to most efficiently rejuvenate the body and mind. A comfort model was developed to stimulate the respective thermal environment required to achieve the desired body thermal conditions and a new infrared sphere method was developed to measure mean radiant temperature. Existing heating conditions according to building code conditions during sleeping hours was calculated to likely overheat a sleeping person and allowed energy saving potential by reducing nighttime heating set points. Experimenting with existing radiantly and forced air heated residential buildings, it was confirmed that thermal environment was too hot for comfortable sleep and that the infrared sphere method shows promise. With the site data, potential energy savings were calculated and around 10% of energy consumption reduction may be achieved during peak heating.


2014 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 642-650 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Hanif ◽  
T.M.I. Mahlia ◽  
A. Zare ◽  
T.J. Saksahdan ◽  
H.S.C. Metselaar

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charinda L. Perera ◽  
Ema Muk-Pavic

This research paper describes the CFD work carried out by the authors to investigate the potential energy savings achieved by attaching a Vortex Generator to the hull of a container ship. This is done by computing the flow pattern at the propeller plane before and after the addition of a Vortex Generator, to determine if the addition of the mentioned device presents the propeller with a more favourable inflow. The Vortex Generator is a trapezoidal shape fin attached to the hull which works by inducing vorticity and deflecting streamlines within the boundary layer, thus diverting and equalizing wake flow into the propeller.


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