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Self-optimizing Control of Cooling Tower for Efficient Operation of Chilled Water Systems [PDF]
, 2012 The chilled-water systems, mainly consisting of electric chillers and cooling towers, are crucial for the ventilating and air conditioning systems in commercial buildings. Energy efficient operation of such systems is thus important for the energy saving
Li, Xiao +3 more
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Personal cooling using thermal conduction on the desk
, 2015 In order to reduce the energy load on buildings, the indoor climate will not be maintained within narrow boundaries in the future. With the application of local conditioning systems that offer individual building occupants the possibility to increase their personal comfort level, a narrow boundary is no longer necessary.
VERHAART, Jacob Charles Gerardus +4 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Circular product design (CPD) is central to advancing the circular economy by enabling the narrowing, slowing, and closing of resource flows. Yet, its implementation remains persistently challenging for firms. Prior research has largely framed these challenges as discrete barriers, overlooking the structural contradictions embedded in CPD ...
Vanessa Robertson +2 more
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Radiative-coupled evaporative cooling: Fundamentals, development, and applications
Nano Research EnergyAs global energy demand continues to rise and climate change accelerates, the need for sustainable and energy-efficient cooling solutions has reached a critical level.
Li Yu +6 more
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Experimental Study of an Enhanced Phase Change Material of Paraffin/Expanded Graphite/Nano-Metal Particles for a Personal Cooling System. [PDF]
Materials (Basel), 2020 Ma C, Zhang Y, Chen X, Song X, Tang K.
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Issue Construals and Corporate Water Stewardship
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In the face of mounting environmental and social pressures, the importance of responsible corporate water stewardship (CWS) should be evident, yet not all businesses are taking water management issues seriously. The aim of this study is to explore why differences in CWS persist, especially within industries facing similar resource challenges ...
Daina Mazutis +3 more
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Achieving Immanent Organizational Ethics: Managing Paradoxical Tensions in Packaging
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Firms face strategic tensions in packaging materials through their conflicting but complementary social, environmental and economic goals in achieving sustainability. Reducing and repurposing plastics, glass, paper and cardboard in agriculture, horticulture and aquaculture is proving a challenge.
Sitong Michelle Chen, Ralph J. Bathurst
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Measuring sustainability performance is crucial for small and medium‐sized manufacturing enterprises and sustainability indicators must be incorporated into decision‐making. However, companies tend to measure only the aspects that interest them, disregarding those considered less strategic or relevant.
Alessandra Neri +3 more
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Why Some Firms Perceive Climate Risks and Others Do Not—Evidence From the Logistics Sector
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study explores how companies perceive risks stemming from climate change as a gradual process, focusing on the logistics sector. It advances research on organizational climate risk perception by integrating perspectives on embeddedness and resource configurations. Based on 41 semi‐structured interviews with representatives of 22 logistics
Felix Bücken, Martin Franz
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Advanced ScienceMaintaining the stability of human body temperature is the basis of ensuring the normal life activities of witness, and the emergence of various functional clothing is committed to assisting the human body temperature in thermal comfort range in the ...
Yushu Wang +4 more
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