The present thesis is primarily motivated by the will to provide help for decisionmaking on the overall layout of a house or a housing development in the very early stages of design from the point of view of energy efficiency and thermal comfort. This study contributes towards a…
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With increasing costs of fossil fuels and intensified environmental awareness, low carbon vehicles, including hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs), are becoming more popular for car buyers due to their lower running costs. HEVs are sensitive to the driving conditions under which they…
Reverse Osmosis (RO) is a membrane-based separation process applied in several industrial and food processing applications. In this research, performance of RO process is investigated in respect of two applications (a) wastewater treatment (b) concentration fruit juices using mo…
Conventional energy sources are not only finite and depleting rapidly, but are a major source of global warming because they are key contributors of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. Renewable energy sources are one important approach to these challenges. Distributed micro-gen…
Additive Manufacturing (AM) refers to the use of a group of technologies capable of combining material layer-by-layer to manufacture geometrically complex products in a single digitally controlled process step, entirely without moulds, dies or other tooling. AM is a parallel man…
The UK building stock accounts for about half of all energy consumed in the UK. A large portion of the energy is consumed by nondomestic buildings. Offices and retail are the most energy intensive typologies within the nondomestic building sector, typically accounting for over 5…
Discovering important patterns in data can help cities to plan, monitor, and assign resources more efficiently, converting them in smart cities with more organized communities. Machine learning models can take advantage of this large amount of data to improve and scale these cit…
Background: Despite the importance of smart Water Distribution Systems (WDSs) operation in obtaining energy-saving and environmentally friendly strategies, in many cases, the operation is still done according to expert opinion and rules of thumb which use local control schemes o…
Over the last 70 years, most elevator installations have been hydraulic elevator systems. However, there has been a lack of research comparing hydraulic and machine room less (MRL) elevators and the factors that influence elevator efficiency. As a result, elevator purchasers lac…
This thesis consists of two different research problems. In the first one, the aim is to model and simulate a solar-powered, single-effect, absorption refrigeration system using a flat-plate solar collector and LiBr-H2 O mixture as the working fluid. The cooling capacity and the…