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Solar and geothermal heating and cooling of the European Centre for Public Law building in Greece

Karagiorgas, Michaelis; Mendrinos, Dimitrios; Karytsas, … - In: Renewable Energy 29 (2004) 4, pp. 461-470

the building hostel by solar water heaters. Monitoring of the energy system during heating showed excellent energy …

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Hybrid solar heating and ventilation: The monymusk housing project

Imbabi, M.S.; Musset, A. - In: Renewable Energy 5 (1994) 5, pp. 1138-1142

vernacular, a new optimised omni-directional solar roof collector system which combines both heating and ventilation functions …, and the ability to automatically switch between a range of heating and/or ventilation modes when required. …

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Energy and buildings in Mediterranean countries: Present and future

Butera, Federico M. - In: Renewable Energy 5 (1994) 5, pp. 942-949

themselves for a more concerned energy use. Present situation and trens in heating and cooling are discussed, as well as the use …

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Individual Decisions And System Development - Integration Modelling Approaches For The Heating Market

Bauermann, Klaas; Spiecker, Stephan - Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Universität … - 2013

Improvements in the building stock insulation and the replacement of heating systems will have to take place within the … presents an integrated, iterative modelling approach to determine the development of the heating market. A system model … influencing heating system choice. In the application case, the potentials for different heating technologies are investigated …

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Targeting utility customers to improve energy savings from conservation and efficiency programs

Taylor, Nicholas W.; Jones, Pierce H.; Kipp, M. Jennison - In: Applied Energy 115 (2014) C, pp. 25-36

Electric utilities, government agencies, and private interests in the US have committed and continue to invest substantial resources – including billions of dollars of financial capital – in the pursuit of energy efficiency and conservation through demand-side management (DSM) programs....

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Optimization of operating parameters of ground source heat pump system for space heating and cooling by Taguchi method and utility concept

Sivasakthivel, T.; Murugesan, K.; Thomas, H.R. - In: Applied Energy 116 (2014) C, pp. 76-85

Use of ground source energy for space heating applications through Ground Source Heat pump (GSHP) has been established … system. However, the COP of a GSHP system will be different for heating and cooling mode operations. Hence in order to reduce … the electricity input to the GSHP, an optimum value of COP has to be determined when GSHP is operated in both heating and …

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Individual decisions and system development – Integrating modelling approaches for the heating market

Bauermann, Klaas; Spiecker, Stephan; Weber, Christoph - In: Applied Energy 116 (2014) C, pp. 149-158

Improvements in the building stock insulation and the replacement of heating systems will have to take place within the … presents an integrated, iterative modelling approach to determine the development of the heating market. A system model … heating system choice. In the application case, the potentials for different heating technologies are investigated under three …

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Environmental design in domestic ancient Greek architecture

Sinou, Maro - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 14 (2011) 1/2, pp. 49-64

The objective of this paper is to show that the subtle climatic differences should lead to different environmental strategies in building construction. Domestic architecture is investigated since housing is the most energy demanding building type. The study aims to demonstrate that the...

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Coal, Smoke, and Death: Bituminous Coal and American Home Heating

Barreca, Alan I.; Clay, Karen; Tarr, Joel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

at the state-year-season level. It exploits the fact that coal consumption for heating was highest in the winter and uses … in the use of bituminous coal for heating between 1945 and 1960 decreased winter all-age mortality by 1.25 percent and …

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Simulation and control of ventilation rates in greenhouses

Dayan, J; Dayan, E; Strassberg, Y; Presnov, E - In: Mathematics and Computers in Simulation (MATCOM) 65 (2004) 1, pp. 3-17

A simple model is presented, which enables the calculation of ventilation in a commercial rose-growing greenhouse (greenhouse). The model represents the greenhouse as three vertically stacked horizontal segments and addresses the energy and vapor transfer among these segments and between them...

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