Methodology and parameters to analyse daylighting and energy use in dense cities: A literature review [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2022 Low energy buildings are key to reduce global energy use. However, achieving low energy use and good daylight levels simultaneously in dense cities is challenging.
Pepe Emanuele +3 more
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Ensuring vibration characteristics of reactor plant centrifugal pumping equipment
Вестник Самарского университета: Аэрокосмическая техника, технологии и машиностроение, 2023 Requirements of low vibration and low noise level are imposed on reactor plant centrifugal pumping equipment. Computational research of vibration characteristics of centrifugal pumping is required in order to choose the optimal design alternate ...
D. V. Savchuk +6 more
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Special features of assessing the strength of nuclear reactor equipment under dynamic loads
Вестник Самарского университета: Аэрокосмическая техника, технологии и машиностроение, 2023 The paper presents tasks and approaches to their solutions in assessing vibration strength and dynamic safety of marine reactor equipment (for example: pumps, control driven rod mechanisms).
K. A. Lonin +4 more
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Buildings, 2021 National design guides provide essential guidance for the design of building drainage systems, which primarily ensure the basic objectives of preventing odor ingress and cross-transmission of disease through water-trap seal retention.
Michael Gormley +4 more
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Steady-State Hydraulic Analysis of High-Rise Building Wastewater Drainage Networks: Modelling Basis
Buildings, 2021 A model is presented which allows steady-state pressure profiles in high-rise wastewater drainage networks to be related to intake air flowrates and discharge water flowrates.
Colin Stewart +4 more
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Residential geothermal airconditioning: inhabitants’ comfort, behaviour and energy use
Buildings & Cities, 2022 How do occupants’ behaviour and expectations influence energy use for residential geothermal air-conditioning? This detailed study of 40 homes with geothermal AC in Sydney, Australia, during the period 2019–20 covers one of hottest Australian summers and
Leena Thomas +4 more
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Energy Modelling as a Trigger for Energy Communities: A Joint Socio-Technical Perspective
Energies, 2020 Mainstreaming energy communities has been one of the main challenges in the low-carbon transition of cities. In this sense, urban building energy modelling (UBEM) has an untapped role in enabling energy communities, as simulations on urban models provide
Viktor Bukovszki +4 more
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Teaching Nature and Architecture: Student-Led Account of Biomimicry Innovations in the Tropics
Biomimetics, 2023 The built environment has a huge carbon footprint, and decarbonizing it is essential in driving our sustainability efforts. We take the approach of biomimicry by working with Master of Architecture students from Taylor’s University in Malaysia.
Girirajan Arumugam +3 more
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Efficiency of night ventilation in limiting the overheating of passive sports hall [PDF]
MATEC Web of Conferences, 2020 It is especially difficult to provide optimal microclimatic conditions in sports facilities during summer time. The internal heat gains and an airtight building insulation, combined with high external temperature can easily lead to overheating and ...
Dudzińska Anna, Kisilewicz Tomasz
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Experimental research on strength deterioration of stiff clay under continuous immersion
Shuili Shuiyun Gongcheng Xuebao, 2023 The stiff clay widely distributed on the bank slope of the project of “Diversion of water from Changjiang River to Huaihe River” is bound to cause a series of engineering problems under the continuous soaking of river water, which will have a great ...
ZHANG Jun +6 more
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