Monthly-averaged hourly solar diffuse radiation models for world-wide locationsFuture Cities and Environment - Tập 1 - Trang 1-8 - 2015
T. Muneer, EJ Gago, S. Etxebarria
Monthly-averaged daily global irradiation data are now easily available from NASA website for any global location. Using established models it is then possible to decompose the daily to averaged-hourly global irradiation. The missing link so far has been hourly averaged diffuse irradiation. In this article data was pooled from 14 world-wide locations to obtain a regression model to complete the ab...... hiện toàn bộ
Comparison of building modelling assumptions and methods for urban scale heat demand forecastingFuture Cities and Environment - Tập 3 - Trang 1-13 - 2017
Dirk Monien, Aneta Strzalka, Athanasios Koukofikis, Volker Coors, Ursula Eicker
Building energy evaluation tools available today are only able to effectively analyse individual buildings and usually either they require a high amount of input data or they are too imprecise in energy predictions at a city (district) scale because of too many assumptions made. In this paper, two tools based on 3D models are compared to see whether there is an approach that would probably be able...... hiện toàn bộ
Current progress in adsorption technologies for low-energy buildingsFuture Cities and Environment - Tập 1 - Trang 1-13 - 2015
Yu I. Aristov
More than half of the world’s population currently lives in cities. An essential constituent of future sustainable cities is energy efficient and ecologically sound buildings which ensure high levels of comfort and convenience without reducing the standards of living. At present, a significant part of primary fossil fuels is spent for heating/cooling of buildings, thus, greatly contributing to tot...... hiện toàn bộ
A simple and effective model for prediction of effective thermal conductivity of vacuum insulation panelsFuture Cities and Environment - Tập 1 - Trang 1-8 - 2015
Ankang Kan, Liyun Kang, Chong Wang, Dan Cao
The excellent thermal insulation performance of vacuum insulation panels (VIPs) make them widely applied in energy conservation fields, especially in buildings engineering. This research work proposes a simple, yet extremely effective, alternative model for prediction of the effective thermal conductivity (ETC.) of VIPs. The ETC. of VIPs is function of the thermal conductivity of the core material...... hiện toàn bộ
Đánh giá tính khả thi kinh tế của việc áp dụng hệ thống trigeneration tại một khách sạn nhỏ Dịch bởi AI Future Cities and Environment - Tập 2 - Trang 1-9 - 2016
Clito Afonso, Carlos Rocha
Năng lượng là yếu tố không thể thiếu cho mọi hoạt động của con người. Giao thông, sản xuất công nghiệp, thương mại, truyền thông, v.v. phụ thuộc vào khả năng cung cấp năng lượng. Truyền thống, người tiêu dùng đáp ứng nhu cầu năng lượng của họ bằng cách mua điện và nhiên liệu từ các công ty phân phối. Đối với việc sản xuất năng lượng điện mà người tiêu dùng tiêu thụ, một phần lớn được sản xuất tại ...... hiện toàn bộ
Climatic benefits of black carbon emission reduction when India adopts the US on-road emission levelFuture Cities and Environment - Tập 1 - Trang 1-13 - 2015
Ashish Sharma, Chul E. Chung
India is known to emit large amounts of black carbon (BC) particles, and the existing estimates of the BC emission from the transport sector in the country widely range from 72 ~ 456 Gg/year (for the 2000’s). First, we reduce the uncertainty range by constraining the existing estimates by credible isotope analysis results. The revised estimate is from 74 ~ 254 Gg/year. Second, we derive our own BC...... hiện toàn bộ
Sustainable urbanism: towards a framework for quality and optimal density?Future Cities and Environment - Tập 2 - Trang 1-13 - 2016
Steffen Lehmann
The question of density is closely connected to urbanization and how our cities may evolve in the future. Density and compactness are two closely related but different criteria, both relevant for sustainable urban development and the transformation of cities; however, their relationship is not always well understood. While a high degree of compactness is desirable, too much density can be detrimen...... hiện toàn bộ
Development of Low-cost indigenous filtration system for urban sullage: assessment of reusabilityFuture Cities and Environment - Tập 2 Số 1 - Trang 1-8 - 2016
Sikder, Tajuddin, Hossain, Zakir, Pingki, Priangka Bhattacharya, Biswas, Jussi Dayna, Rahman, Mostafizur, Hossain, Shakhaoat, Saito, Takeshi, Kurasaki, Masaaki
Treated sullage water could be the answer to urban water scarcity. In this study, urban sullage water was subjected to various tests to determine a number of physiochemical parameters, heavy metal content and coliform count. Obtained results were compared with the Dhaka Water and Sewerage Authority (DWASA) water samples. The sullage water was then treated using a proposed filtration system with in...... hiện toàn bộ