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Overheating Risk Analysis in Long-Term Care Homes—Development of Overheating Limit Criteria
Buildings, 2023 Climate heat waves occurring in urban centers are a serious threat to public health and wellbeing. Historically, most heat-related mortalities have arisen from excessive overheating of building interiors housing older occupants.
Abdelaziz Laouadi +4 more
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Development of an adaptive window-opening algorithm to predict the thermal comfort, energy use and overheating in buildings [PDF]
, 2008 This investigation of the window opening data from extensive field surveys in UK office buildings demonstrates: 1) how people control the indoor environment by opening windows; 2) the cooling potential of opening windows; and 3) the use of an ‘adaptive ...
Tuohy, P. +5 more
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THE METHOD OF EXPERT ASSESSMENT OF THE TECHNICAL CONDITION OF AN AUTOMOBILE ENGINE AFTER OVERHEATING [PDF]
Avtomobilʹnyj Transport (Harʹkov), 2021 Problem. For expert studies of the technical condition of a car, a difficult task is to determine the causes and development of malfunction of engine mechanisms and systems.
Khrulev Alexander E., Saraiev Olexii V.
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Letting Teach: Gen Z as Socio-Political Educators in an Overheated World
Frontiers in Political Science, 2021 In this article, the author begins by grasping the present crisis through the social anthropological description of overheating. She then locates “Generation Z (Gen Z)” as a generation born into an overheated era and distinguishes their socio-political ...
Tanu Biswas
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Alumina Nanofluid Active-Cooling Influence on the Electrical Yield of a Silicon Solar Photovoltaic-Thermal (PVT) System [PDF]
Delta Journal of Science, 2023 Solar panels’ temperatures have a huge impact on their electrical production. Hence, nowadays’ research work focuses on the mechanical cooling of the Photovoltaic systems through different coolant fluids which could be forced or stationary.
Muhammad Abdulhamid +2 more
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Energies, 2022 Green façades with an active water regime and the water flowing through the substrate itself are not common. This system reduces the temperatures and incorporates the evapotranspiration, which could be more effective than by the regular green façades ...
Peter Juras, Pavol Durica
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Overheating assessment in Passivhaus dwellings: the influence of prediction tools
Buildings & Cities, 2022 Thermal comfort during the summer in the Passivhaus concept relies mainly on natural ventilation to provide indoor cooling. Do airflow modeling tools accurately predict overheating in summer and for anticipated warmer climates?
Vitor Leite Goncalves +3 more
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Overheating risk evaluation of school classrooms [PDF]
, 2011 This paper presents a pilot study which considers the overheating risk of classrooms in school buildings. Four schools in Southampton in the South of the UK, constructed during the period of the 1950s- 1980s were used as case study examples.
James, P.A.B. +3 more
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Buildings, 2022 Global warming is resulting in higher summer indoor temperatures in the severe cold region and cold region of China, and this is affecting thermal comfort.
Yitong Xu +4 more
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Energies, 2022 The global climate is warming rapidly, with increasing frequency of severe events including heatwaves. Building insulation standards are improving to reduce emissions, but this can also lead to more overheating.
Andrew Wright, Eduardas Venskunas
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