Energy-cost allocation systems apportion heating and/or cooling costs among the individual apartments in centrally-metered buildings based on various measures of relative energy use or thermal comfort. The most commonly used systems measure one or more parameters related to the thermal output of...

The energy-saving characteristic of silica gel regeneration with power ultrasonic was analyzed by introducing the conception of specific energy consumption. For the purpose, the experiments of silica gel regeneration with 21-kHz power ultrasound were performed under different drying air...

A new regeneration method using power ultrasound was put forward to overcome the limitations of silica gel in air-conditioning applications, such as high regeneration temperature and low regeneration efficiency. The technical feasibility of the new method was validated experimentally and...

A novel method integrating rough sets (RS) theory and an artificial neural network (ANN) based on data-fusion technique is presented to forecast an air-conditioning load. Data-fusion technique is the process of combining multiple sensors data or related information to estimate or predict entity...

Regeneration of dehumidizers is the most important stage in the working cycle of desiccant system. The lower regeneration temperature will be favorable for the energy efficiency of the whole system. Ultrasonic technology may be a promising method of dehydration applied to the regeneration of...

This study, undertaken from the perspective of statistical dynamics, proposes the treatment of financial centres as an ecosystem, creates a multidimensional financial centre niche (FC-niche) under given generalised entropy and constraints, and interprets the evolutionary process of an FC-niche...

This paper characterizes the solar energy literature from 1992 to 2011 using bibliometric techniques based on databases of the Science Citation Index and the Social Science Citation Index. Journal articles were the most frequently used document type representing 86.4% (6670) of the records. The...