The quest towards energy conservative building design is increasingly popular in recent years, which has triggered greater interests in developing energy efficient systems for space cooling in buildings. In this work, energy efficient silver–titania HiTES (hybrid nanocomposites-based cool...

Energy management in buildings is indispensable which would control the energy use as well as the cost involved while maintaining comfort conditions and requirements in indoor environments. Energy management is intensely coupled with energy efficiency and increasing of which would provide a...

This paper presents the experimental investigation on the thermal properties and viscosity of the new organic ester phase change material embedded with the silver–titania hybrid nanocomposite (HyNPCM) with the mass proportions ranging from 0.1% to 1.5%. The HyNPCM embedded with the surface...

Thermal Energy Storage (TES) has been a topic of research for quite some time and has proven to be a technology that can have positive effects on the energy efficiency of a building by contributing to an increased share of renewable energy and/or reduction in energy demand or peak loads for both...

In this paper a review of solar cooling and refrigeration technologies is presented. A discussion on the main reasons why these technologies are not presently economically feasible is carried out. and two installations in Mexico are analysed.

A solar refrigerator is made of a solar collector and a refrigeration system. Real solar refrigerators usually operate between two limits, maximum coefficient of performance (COP) and maximum cooling load. A new model is presented to describe an irreversible absorption refrigerator, in which not...

A small scale steam jet ejector experimental setup was designed and manufactured. This ejector setup consists of an open loop configuration and the boiler operate in the temperature range of Tb=85–140°C. The typical evaporator liquid temperatures range from Te=5°C to 10°C while the typical...

The solar–thermal refrigeration systems, covering the solar absorption refrigeration system (SAbRS) and the solar adsorption refrigeration system (SAdRS), were designed for typical office in the subtropical Hong Kong. The approach of simulation–optimization was adopted in order to determine...

The silica gel–water adsorption refrigeration has attracted much attention especially in the last two decades, due to its environmentally friendly refrigeration that can be powered by low grade heat source. In this paper, we reviewed the research about silica gel–water adsorption technology,...

Drivers can easily feel fatigue and aprosexia due to the high temperature inside the locomotive driver cabin in summer. The current locomotive driver cabin air-conditioning system cannot meet the needs of operating condition and environmental protection. It is a very urgent task to develop an...