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A study on the comparative review of cool roof thermal performance in various regions
Energy and Built Environment, 2022 Energy demand is growing significantly worldwide to create thermal comfort in buildings. Air-conditioning is contributing to energy consumption at a massive scale in the residential and commercial sectors.
Mohan Rawat, R. N. Singh
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Engineering Proceedings, 2023 Cool roof coatings are being applied on rooftops to reflect solar irradiance back into the atmosphere. Bifacial photovoltaic modules can receive solar irradiance from the front and rear side.
Khalid Mahmood +3 more
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Thermal stress reduction in cool roof membranes using phase change materials (PCM) [PDF]
, 2017 A considerable amount of energy is used in the building sector for air conditioning purposes. Additionally, the building sector contributes to the urban heat island (UHI) phenomenon which causes temperature rise in urban areas.
Cabeza, Luisa F. +5 more
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Active cool roof effect: impact of cool roofs on cooling system efficiency
Advances in Building Energy Research, 2013 Cool roofs represent an acknowledged, relatively simple, and low-cost strategy to reduce cooling energy demand of buildings and mitigate urban heat island phenomena. The purpose of this paper is to study the coupled passive–active effect produced by such a technology, where the active effect consists of the cool roof capability to decrease the suction ...
PISELLO, ANNA LAURA +2 more
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Mehran University Research Journal of Engineering and Technology, 2020 The cool roofs in buildings is a promising option to deal with summer Urban Heat Island (UHI) effects. In context to that, studies on different cool roof materials are widely available; however, there is a dearth of studies on insulating material ...
Aftab Ahmed Sahito +3 more
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Case Studies in Thermal Engineering, 2021 Global warming increases the indoor temperature and energy consumption of residential buildings in arid regions. No doubt, development of effective passive cooling techniques are crucial to reduce the room air temperature as well as the energy ...
V. Vinod Kumar, Nitin Raut, Norie Akeel
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Will cool roofs improve the thermal performance of our built environment? A study assessing roof systems in Bahrain [PDF]
, 2017 A number of international campaigns have recently proposed the use of cool roofs worldwide in order to cope with the summer urban heat island (UHI) effect.
Fahmy, M +3 more
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Summer and Winter Effect of Innovative Cool Roof Tiles on the Dynamic Thermal Behavior of Buildings
Energies, 2014 Cool roofs represent an acknowledged passive cooling technique to reduce building energy consumption for cooling and to mitigate urban heat island effects.
Anna Laura Pisello +2 more
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Pollution severity-regulated effects of roof strategies on China’s winter PM2.5
npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 2022 Urbanization took place rapidly over recent decades and is expected to continue in the future, producing a series of environmental issues, including heat stress.
Fan Wang +4 more
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Frontiers in Energy Research, 2021 Cool roofs, as feasible and efficient passive solar technique that reduces building energy requirements for cooling and improves indoor thermal comfort conditions, have received considerable attention in recent years and as a result, a number of concepts,
Babak Ashtari +3 more
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