Increasing levels of urbanisation and indoor air quality have led to enhanced research and development of sustainable technologies in buildings. This study investigated natural ventilation streams typically found in domestic buildings and used heat pipe technology to recover the energy from...

A novel thermal diode, bidirectional partition fluid thermal diode (BPFTD) that is fabricated by integrating a thermal insulation partition and a movable control blade into a water tank, is proposed. The bidirectional configuration allows the BPFTD to serve both passive solar heating in winter...

The performance of a new design of non-metallic unglazed solar water heater integrated with a storage system has been studied. In this system, the collector and storage were installed in one unit. All parts of the system have been fabricated from fiberglass reinforced polyester (GFRP) using a...

This paper provides an overview of the costs of concentrating solar power (CSP) deployed internationally and estimates of what these costs are expected to be in Australia, both for trough and tower technologies. When an analysis is made of how to improve the efficiency of a CSP plant, there is...

The electrical efficiency of photovoltaic (PV) cell is adversely affected by the significant increase of cell operating temperature during absorption of solar radiation. A hybrid photovoltaic/thermal (PV/T) solar system was designed, fabricated and experimentally investigated in this work. To...

An implementation of a cooling system with a loop heat pipe for thermal control of supercomputers is considered. For this purpose two copper–water loop heat pipes (LHPs) with an effective length of 400 mm and ID/OD diameters of the vapor lines of 3/4 and 4/5 mm correspondingly were designed...