Thesiss

Electrical trees have long been the interest of the electrical insulation community due to their role in power systems equipment failure at locations where high divergent fields might arise due to impurities, contaminants or voids. Even through trees take a long time to grow in …

Frame walls enhanced with phase change materials (paraffin-based, hydrated salt-based, and eutectic) mixed in cellulose insulation were developed and tested. The frame walls were heated and allowed to cool in a dynamic wall simulator that replicated the sun's exposure in a wall …

Mammalian thermoregulation is energetically costly, and mammals employ numerous strategies to ameliorate these costs, particularly at low ambient temperatures. This body of work is broadly focused on mammalian thermoregulation, with emphasis on the adaptive value and evolution o…

The aim of this Engineering Doctorate is to design, build and test novel environmental retrofit technologies to reduce energy consumption in existing buildings. Three contributions to knowledge are documented. The first contribution is the technical verification of a novel proof…