An International Outlook of Innovative Energy Efficient Designs of Low Carbon Buildings

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Essam E. Khalil
Keyword(s):  
Information Dissemination ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
National Development ◽  
Energy Performance ◽  
Energy Resources ◽  
Energy Utilization ◽  
Utilization Efficiency ◽  
Positive Energy ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Legal Standards

The Developing communities in their path for rapid development is endeavoring to make all necessary and appropriate measures to enhance the efficiency of energy utilization and increase the beneficiation of the energy resources. The energy production, transmission, distribution and utilization efficiency becomes a vital factor and measure of national development. Governmental organizations were established earlier to be responsible for energy planning and efficient utilization, information dissemination and capacity building as well as devising the necessary codes and standards. Throughout the Nation Energy resources are widely used and consumption rates are in general exceeding the International accepted values. Energy rationalization and audit exercises were developed and monitored by Governmental authorities, Universities and Research centers through the past two decades with a definitive positive energy reduction and beneficiation. The development of the relevant codes for Residential and Commercial Energy Efficiency in Building is underway through the governmental bodies responsible for the research and development in the building Technology sector and is the umbrella under which the National and Unified Arab Codes are developed and issued. A proposed new Energy Performance in Buildings Directive based on relevant ISO, ASHRAE and LEED would be beneficial to practitioners to meet the following targets of Energy Performance Directive: 1. “Legestilative authorities shall ensure that, when buildings are constructed, sold or rented out, an energy performance certificate should be made available to the owner. 2. The energy performance certificate for buildings shall include reference values such as currant legal standards and benchmarks in order to make it possible for consumers to compare and assess the energy performance of the building. The certificate shall be accompanied by recommendations for cost-effective improvement of the energy performance…”.Ultimately a unique energy standard is sought for Middle East region to harness the energy consumption. This can be achieved by developing methodologies for energy declaration of the buildings and to provide a labeling system and energy signature for selected buildings.

Energy Efficiency in Buildings: Think Pyramids

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Essam E. Khalil
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Reference Values ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
National Development ◽  
Energy Performance ◽  
Energy Resources ◽  
Energy Utilization ◽  
Utilization Efficiency ◽  
Positive Energy ◽  
Legal Standards

The developing communities in their path for rapid development is endeavoring to make all necessary and appropriate measures to enhance the efficiency of energy utilization and increase the beneficiation of the energy resources. The energy production, transmission, distribution and utilization efficiency becomes a vital factor and measure of national development. Governmental organizations were established earlier to be responsible for energy planning and efficient utilization, information dissemination and capacity building as well as devising the necessary codes and standards. Throughout the Nation, energy resources are widely used and consumption rates are in general exceeding the International accepted values. Energy rationalization and audit exercises were developed and monitored by Governmental Authorities, Universities and Research centers through the past two decades with a definitive positive energy reduction and beneficiation. The development of the relevant codes for Residential and Commercial Energy Efficiency in buildings is underway through the governmental bodies responsible for the research and development in the building Technology sector and is the umbrella under which the National and Unified Arab Codes are developed and issued. A proposed new Energy Performance in Buildings Directive (EPBD) would fulfill the following main targets of energy performance directive: 1. “Legestilative authorities shall ensure that, when buildings are constructed, sold or rented out, an energy performance certificate is made available to the owner or by the owner to the prospective buyer or tenant, as the case might be. … 2. The energy performance certificate for buildings shall include reference values such as currant legal standards and benchmarks in order to make it possible for consumers to compare and assess the energy performance of the building. The certificate shall be accompanied by recommendations for cost-effective improvement of the energy performance…” The following steps shall be required for the energy certification: 1. Develop methodologies for energy declaration of the buildings. 2. Develop reference values (key numbers) and /or systems for benchmarking. 3. Provide a labeling system for selected buildings. 4. Describe an energy signature for the building.

scholarly journals Energy Efficient Designs of Sustainable Buildings in Urban Environment.

2019 ◽  
Vol 111 ◽  
pp. 03036
Author(s):  
M.El-Sherif Doaa ◽  
Essam E. Khalil
Keyword(s):  
Information Dissemination ◽  
Research Training ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
National Development ◽  
Energy Resources ◽  
Energy Utilization ◽  
Utilization Efficiency ◽  
Positive Energy ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Consumption Rates

The Developing communities in their path for rapid development is endeavoring to make all necessary and appropriate measures to enhance the efficiency of energy utilization and increase the beneficiation of the energy resources. The energy production, transmission, distribution and utilization efficiency becomes a vital factor and measure of national development. Governmental organizations were established earlier to be responsible for energy planning and efficient utilization, information dissemination and capacity building as well as devising the necessary codes and standards. Throughout the Nation Energy resources are widely used and consumption rates are in general exceeding the International accepted values. Energy rationalization and audit exercises were developed and monitored by Governmental authorities, Universities and Research centers through the past two decades with a definitive positive energy reduction and beneficiation. The development of the relevant codes for Residential and Commercial Energy Efficiency in Building is underway through the governmental bodies responsible for the research, training and development in the building Technology sector and is the umbrella under which the National and Unified Arab Codes are developed and issued.

Ten Tips for Energy-Efficient Air-Conditioned Buildings

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Essam E. Khalil
Keyword(s):  
Information Dissemination ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
National Development ◽  
Energy Utilization ◽  
Utilization Efficiency ◽  
Energy Planning ◽  
Positive Energy ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Codes Of Practice ◽  
Developing Communities

The Developing communities in their path for rapid development is endeavoring to make all necessary and appropriate measures to enhance the efficiency of energy utilization and increase the beneficiation of the energy resources. The energy production, transmission, distribution and utilization efficiency becomes a vital factor and measure of national development. Governmental organizations were established earlier to be responsible for energy planning and efficient utilization, information dissemination and capacity building as well as devising the necessary codes and standards. Energy rationalization and audit exercises were developed and monitored by Governmental authorities, Universities and Research centers through the past two decades with a definitive positive energy reduction and beneficiation. The development of the relevant codes of practice and giving hints and tips to energy managers on how to effectively reduce their energy bill is forcibly underway.

Carbon Emission of Mining Industry’s Energy Consumption in Heilongjiang Province

2015 ◽  
Vol 1092-1093 ◽  
pp. 1597-1600
Author(s):  
Zhong Hua Wang ◽  
Xin Ye Chen
Keyword(s):  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Carbon Emissions ◽  
Carbon Emission ◽  
Industrial Structure ◽  
Mining Industry ◽  
Calculation Model ◽  
Energy Utilization ◽  
Utilization Efficiency ◽  
Heilongjiang Province ◽  
Low Carbon

The need to reduce carbon emission in Heilongjiang Province of China is urgent challenge facing sustainable development. This paper aims to make explicit the problem-solving of carbon emission to find low carbon emission ways. According to domestic and foreign literatures on estimating and calculating carbon emissions and by integrating calculation methods of carbon emissions, it was not possible to consider all of the many contributions to carbon emissions. Calculation model of carbon emissions suitable to this paper is selected. The carbon emissions of energy consumption in mining industry are estimated and calculated from 2005 to 2012, and the characteristics of carbon emission are analyzed at the provincial level. It makes the point that carbon emissions of energy consumption in mining industry can be reduced when we attempt to alter energy consumption structure, adjust industrial structure and improve energy utilization efficiency.

scholarly journals A Fast Neighbor Discovery Algorithm in WSNs

Sensors ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (10) ◽  
pp. 3319 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liangxiong Wei ◽  
Weijie Sun ◽  
Haixiang Chen ◽  
Ping Yuan ◽  
Feng Yin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Sensor Networks ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Energy Efficient ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Energy Utilization ◽  
Utilization Efficiency ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Neighbor Discovery ◽  
Low Duty Cycle ◽  
Discovery Algorithms

With the quick development of Internet of Things (IoT), one of its important supporting technologies, i.e., wireless sensor networks (WSNs), gets much more attention. Neighbor discovery is an indispensable procedure in WSNs. The existing deterministic neighbor discovery algorithms in WSNs ensure that successful discovery can be obtained within a given period of time, but the average discovery delay is long. It is difficult to meet the need for rapid discovery in mobile low duty cycle environments. In addition, with the rapid development of IoT, the node densities of many WSNs greatly increase. In such scenarios, existing neighbor discovery methods fail to satisfy the requirement in terms of discovery latency under the condition of the same energy consumption. This paper proposes a group-based fast neighbor discovery algorithm (GBFA) to address the issues. By carrying neighbor information in beacon packet, the node knows in advance some potential neighbors. It selects more energy efficient potential neighbors and proactively makes nodes wake up to verify whether these potential neighbors are true neighbors, thereby speeding up neighbor discovery, improving energy utilization efficiency and decreasing network communication load. The evaluation results indicate that, compared with other methods, GBFA decreases the average discovery latency up to 10 . 58 % at the same energy budget.

scholarly journals Research and Design of Wind and Solar Complementary Electric Sightseeing Boat

2020 ◽  
Vol 145 ◽  
pp. 02056
Author(s):  
Haomin Zhang ◽  
Xingang Xu
Keyword(s):  
Power Generation ◽  
Fossil Fuels ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Light Energy ◽  
Energy Utilization ◽  
Utilization Efficiency ◽  
Lake Area ◽  
Domestic Water ◽  
Hull Design

To solve the problem of rapid development of domestic water tourism and water pollution in scenic waters, windsurfing technology and solar photovoltaic technology are applied to small and medium-sized sightseeing cruise ships. While optimizing the hull design and component coordination, the application of automatic control technology further improves the utilization efficiency of wind and light energy, and achieves the adaptation of the sail angle of attack and the efficient coupling of the two energies. The ship mainly uses the natural resources of solar energy and wind energy. It will not burn fossil fuels during the ship’s travel, thus reducing the emission of toxic and harmful substances, which has positive significance for environmental protection. In short, the solar wind-assisted power generation ship studied in this project has remarkable features such as zero emission, high degree of intelligence, significant wind-assisted effect, high efficiency of light energy utilization, and low hull space occupation. Compared with the ordinary lake area cruise ship, the energy-saving and emission reduction effect of the power generation ship is very obvious[1].

scholarly journals The adaptive assessment method for different energy storage applications in large-scale re-electrical load access regions

2020 ◽  
Vol 165 ◽  
pp. 06030
Author(s):  
Zhicheng Xu ◽  
Jun Liu ◽  
Zhuonan Li
Keyword(s):  
Energy Storage ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Energy System ◽  
Assessment Method ◽  
Energy Utilization ◽  
Utilization Efficiency ◽  
Demand Side ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Electrical Load ◽  
Security Technology

In the context of energy transformation, re-electrification has become an important way to build a clean and low-carbon energy system. The large-scale re-electrical load access further increases the flexibility requirements on the user demand side. The application of the energy storage system (ESS) can not only improve the degree of electrification of the energy system but also improve the energy utilization efficiency. This paper analyzes the different development modes and key characteristics of energy storage on the power supply side, grid side and demand side in large-scale re-electrical load access areas. Five dimensions (such as storage security, technology maturity, system cost, storage scenario suitability and storage scalability) are selected to characterize the feasibility of a certain energy storage technology in a given application scenario. For different application scenarios, studying the appropriate development mode and its adaptability to the environment will help the healthy and sustainable development of energy storage.

Existing Problems and Countermeasures in the Development of China’s Biomass Energy Industry

2012 ◽  
Vol 608-609 ◽  
pp. 441-447
Author(s):  
Yu Zhao ◽  
Chen Xia Suo
Keyword(s):  
Rural Economy ◽  
Biomass Energy ◽  
Energy Utilization ◽  
Utilization Efficiency ◽  
Energy Industry ◽  
Utilization Rate ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Land Utilization ◽  
Low Carbon Economy ◽  
Countermeasures And Suggestions

Biomass energy, a kind of new energy like solar energy and wind energy, is always highly acclaimed globally. The development of China’s biomass energy industry has the following benefits: improve land utilization rate and promote positive cycle of ecosystems in China; improve rural energy utilization efficiency and promote sustainable development of rural economy; develop low-carbon economy and protect the environment; and address energy crisis and guarantee national energy security. However, problems existing in the development of China’s biomass energy industry hamper further development of this industry. This paper summarizes the five problems existing in the development of biomass energy industry development and offers corresponding countermeasures and suggestions.

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