For recent years, silica aerogel has attracted great attention and been extensively used in different technical fields owning to its remarkable properties in optics, mechanics, Continue reading
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Tag: Energy
Indigenous Materials in Modern Buildings: for Low Energy Houses in West Africa
Burkina Faso is one of the poorest countries in the world. This landlocked country in the west has an extremely warm climate. Temperatures over 45°C are not uncommon and there is an almost constant need to Continue reading
Analysis of Energy Saving Proposals at St. Louis County Jail
The goal of this project was to evaluate three main proposals, by the Property Management Department (PMD) of St. Louis County, which the department hoped would reduce energy consumption at Continue reading
Energy Performance Certification and Green Building: A comparison between the Environmental Effect and the discharge of Carbon Dioxide
The major climatic problem has been worsening extremely rapidly over the last decades and if no measures are taken soon, we will experience severe consequences over the Continue reading
Energy Storage Systems: An Approach Involving the Concept of Exergy
This project deals with thermal energy storage systems (TES), which are devices used to store and re-lease thermal energy with a time delay. In the first part of the study, the state-of-art of the TES systems is discussed, grouping the different technologies on the basis of Continue reading