Thermal performance and energy savings of white and sedum-tray garden roof: A case study in a Chongqing office building [PDF]
, 2017 This study presents the experimental measurement of the energy consumption of three top-floor air-conditioned rooms in a typical office building in Chongqing, which is a mountainous city in the hot-summer and cold-winter zone of China, to examine the ...
Gao, Y +5 more
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Assessment of the worthwhileness of efficient driving in railway systems with high-receptivity power supplies [PDF]
, 2020 Eco-driving is one of the most important strategies for significantly reducing the energy consumption of railways with low investments. It consists of designing a way of driving a train to fulfil a target running time, consuming the minimum amount of ...
Cucala, A. P. +4 more
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Testing Dust Control Preparation with Respect to Mine Employee Exposure to Inhalling Chemical Agents
Journal of Sustainable Mining, 2013 This paper presents the results of tests used in dust hazard prevention for air-water spraying devices in collieries. The purpose of the tests was to evaluate mine employees’ exposure to inhalling chemical agents when the ZWILKOP ZW-10 preparation is ...
Eugeniusz Orszulik, Wojciech Dudek
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Energy Saving and Life Cycle Analysis of a Daylight-Linked Control System
Sakarya University Journal of Computer and Information Sciences, 2020 The main purpose of this work is to examine the environmental impact of a daylight-linked dimming lighting control system integrated in the Lighting Laboratory of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department, Sakarya University.
Cenk Yavuz, Ceyda Aksoy Tırmıkçı
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State-dependent metabolic partitioning and energy conservation: A theoretical framework for understanding the function of sleep. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Metabolic rate reduction has been considered the mechanism by which sleep conserves energy, similar to torpor or hibernation. This mechanism of energy savings is in conflict with the known upregulation (compared to wake) of diverse functions during sleep
Markus H Schmidt +3 more
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Energy savings potential from prismatic glass structure [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2020 The simulation analysis of the potential energy savings from the prismatic glass structure has been provided. The two conventional triple glazings and two proposed triple glazings with prismatic glass have been experimentally tested to obtain the ...
Shemelin Viacheslav +3 more
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Energy savings approaches for high-tech manufacturing factories
Case Studies in Thermal Engineering, 2020 This study integrates a fab energy simulation (FES) tool and energy conversion factors to analyze energy consumption and identify energy savings opportunities of high-tech manufacturing factories.
Shih-Cheng Hu +4 more
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Energies, 2021 The housing sector is one of the largest energy consumers in the world. There is an urgent need to renovate the housing stock of existing buildings. Therefore, it is necessary to correctly calculate the energy savings that can be obtained in a renovation
Olman Araya Mejías +4 more
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Energies, 2021 Energy savings based upon use of smart WiFi thermostats ranging from 10 to 15% have been documented, as new features such as geofencing have been added.
Abdulrahman Alanezi +2 more
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Assisting Inhabitants of Residential Homes with Management of Their Energy Consumption [PDF]
, 2013 Although there are already a range of energy monitoring and automation systems available in the market that target residential homes, mostly with the aim of reducing their total energy consumption, very few of these systems are directly concerned with ...
André, Elisabeth +5 more
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