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The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries have over 50% and 30% of global oil and gas reserves respectively and have therefore traditionally relied on fossil fuels to meet all their energy requirements. In recent years however there has been a realization to diversify their energy mix and tap on their rich solar energy potential. While buildings account for as much as 80% of the total national...
Africa's future is bright. Amid complex issues surrounding poverty, illiteracy, unemployment and energy deficiency, to name a few, the continent is also brimming with eager entrepreneurs and investors looking to take financial advantage of untapped sectors or under-fulfilled development needs. One such opportunity lies within shared solar energy. Solar energy has already proven itself to be a viable...
In this study, a solar based Rankine cycle and geothermal based system for multigeneration is designed and developed. It consists of a Rankine cycle with reheating for power generation, an absorption chiller cycle for cooling, a drying process to dry wet products, useful heat from the condenser of the Rankine cycle, and other useful heat out from heat exchangers. The overall energy and exergy efficiencies...
A renewable energy and sustainability training center has to inspire the participants at the outset with models of self-sustainable renewable sources of energy. With this idea in mind a fully sustainable renewable energy training center is constructed to help participants appreciate the concept of green and sustainable energy. The training center located at Muppandal, Tamil Nadu, India was chosen...
Energy is important to all aspects of development to support population growth, urbanization, industrialization as well as tourism industry. The energy consumption is also increasing and several alternative green energy sources are seriously taken into consideration to fulfill Malaysia's energy demand. The Malaysian government has looked into the renewable energy (RE) sources such as solar energy...
The paper briefly illustrated the status of renewable energy resources in Chongqing rural area district, analyzing the requirement and the use of renewable energy in current countryside in view of the demonstration county, proposing architectural application technical programs of renewable energy that suitable for Chongqing rural areas. It also analyzed the feasibility of technical proposals, the...
Energy is an important material foundation of the economical and social development. Building energy consumption has become an important part of the total social energy consumption. Develop and use renewable energy is importance for building energy efficiency and many countries made clear renewable energy development goals in the world. China is actively promoting Integrative Solar Architecture, solar...
Energy consumed for heating in northern China amounts to 40% of the total energy consumption of cities and towns of the country, and the resulting environmental pollution is very severe as coal is the main fuel for heating in China. As a result, there is a growing, government-led trend of applying renewable energy in China. One area of interest lies in the use of solar energy. Although Chinese government...
The severe problems of rural buildings in northwest china are low thermal comfortableness, high consumption of energy and wasting of natural resources. In this cases, putting forward the appropriate technologies like solar energy technology or ecological architecture planning, and carrying out these technologies in Yinchuan City, Jian-fuqiao village projects. By comparing with traditional buildings,...
To deal with the energy crisis, alternative energy has been widely used to replace fuel sources. Solar power is a safe, clean and renewable energy, among all the solar technologies, photovoltaics is the most promising technology which can convert solar energy into electricity. It is becoming increasingly popular and applied to many areas of life. One of the most important applications is building...
The economical analysis of heating/cooling sources for ecological building using renewable energy was mainly discussed. Firstly, the application patterns of natural resources which used in heating and air conditioning system for ecological buildings were generalized, then the famous AHP method was introduced into the decision-making process of scheme selection of heating/cooling sources for an ecological...
The paper describes education, outreach, and research activities on residential use of wind and solar energy performed at Frostburg State University (FSU). A residential size wind and solar energy demonstration system named ldquoWISErdquo consisting of a 2-kW solar (PV) array and 1.8-kW wind turbine was constructed on FSU campus. A broad range of community outreach presentations have been offered...
The main objective of this project is to design a comprehensive tool that performs technical and economical analysis for building integrated photovoltaic (BIPV). This tool will be used to propose a BIPV villa design for the UAE real-state market. MATLAB-based tool was designed to perform a full technical and economical analysis for grid-tied PV systems. The designed tool carries out number of consecutive...
There is a growing, government-led trend of applying renewable energy in China. One area of interest lies in the wider use of solar energy systems. Solar air heating system based on unglazed transpired collector (UTC, also known as solarwall) is a simple and inexpensive technique that results in reduced energy consumption and operating costs resulted from outdoor air ventilation requirements. Solar...
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