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Category : Solar energy
Languages : en
Pages : 596
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Proceedings of the ... National Passive Solar Conference
Author: Solar Energy Update
Author: Energy Research Abstracts
Author: Fundamentals of Building Energy Dynamics
Author: Bruce D. HunnPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262082389
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
Fundamentals of Building Energy Dynamics assesses how and why buildings use energy, and how energy use and peak demand can be reduced. It provides a basis for integrating energy efficiency and solar approaches in ways that will allow building owners and designers to balance the need to minimize initial costs, operating costs, and life-cycle costs with need to maintain reliable building operations and enhance environmental quality both inside and outside the building. Chapters trace the development of building energy systems and analyze the demand side of solar applications as a means for determining what portion of a building's energy requirements can potentially be met by solar energy. Following the introduction, the book provides an overview of energy usepatterns in the aggregate U.S. building population. Chapter 3 surveys work onthe energy flows in an individual building and shows how these flows interact to influence overall energy use. Chapter 4 presents the analytical methods, techniques, and tools developed to calculate and analyze energy use in buildings, while chapter 5 provides an extensive survey of the energy conservation and management strategies developed in the post-energy crisis period. The approach taken is a commonsensical one, starting with the proposition that the purpose of buildings is to house human activities, and that conservation measures that negatively affect such activities are based on false economies. The goal is to determine rational strategies for the design of new buildings, and the retrofit of existing buildings to bring them up to modern standards of energy use. The energy flows examined are both large scale (heating systems) and small scale (choices among appliances). Solar Heat Technologies: Fundamentals and Applications, Volume 4
Buildings Energy Conservation
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Category : Architecture and energy conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Advances in Solar Energy
Author: Karl W. BoerPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1468489925
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
The field of solar energy conversion has become an important discipline with a recognized potential to significantly contribute to the world supply of energy. It is diversified and encompasses a wide variety of disciplines - from mechanical engineering to physics, from biology to architecture, from ocean science to agriculture, from chemistry to atmospheric science, to name some of the major fields. It involves fields which have matured to the engineering aspects, such as the conversion of solar energy into heat or of wind into shaft work. It includes other fields in which more basic science research is necessary to unravel the micro-structures of nature, as, for example, for photovoltaic conversion or for certain bioengineering tasks. Several of these fields have elements which have been common knowledge for centuries but sometimes forgotten at times of cheap energy supplies, while others have barely started with first studies. Most of the fields have seen during the last decade a substantial advance in sophistication, in theoretical understanding, in demonstrated feasibility, in developing hardware, in field testing, with some moving into a phase of initial commercialization.
Report on Building a Sustainable Future
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Category : Energy conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 1216
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The Residential Energy Audit Manual
Author: United States. Department of EnergyPublisher:
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Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 496
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Architecture
Author: United States. Naval Facilities Engineering CommandPublisher:
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Category : Architecture and energy conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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