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Christopher Tsang, James Parker and David Glew
A substantial number of dwellings in the UK have poor building fabric, leading to higher carbon emissions, fuel expenses, and the risk of cold homes. To tackle these challenges, domestic energy efficiency policies are being implemented. One effective app...
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Pengcheng Liu, Jian Hao, Hui Hu, Xuekun Luan and Bingqian Meng
This article addresses the issue of energy waste resulting from frequent braking of underground mine cars and proposes an optimization design to address this. The proposed solution involves the installation of a regenerative braking device within the min...
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Pinar Mert Cuce, Erdem Cuce and Saffa Riffat
The construction sector, including in developed countries, plays a notable part in the overall energy consumption worldwide, being responsible for 40% of it. In addition to this, heating, ventilating and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems constitute the lar...
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Coskun Hamzaçebi
Forecasting electricity consumption is a very important issue for governments and electricity related foundations of public sector. Recently, Grey Modelling (GM (1,1)) has been used to forecast electricity demand successfully. GM (1,1) is useful when the...
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Andreas Neumann and Michaela Brchnelova
Electric space propulsion is a technology that is used in a continuously increasing number of spacecrafts. The qualification of these propulsion systems has to run in ground-based test facilities which requires long testing times and powerful pumping sys...
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Alireza Kakoee, Jacek Hunicz and Maciej Mikulski
This paper presents a comprehensive investigation into the design of a methane oxidation catalyst aftertreatment system specifically tailored for the Wärtsilä W31DF natural gas engine which has been converted to a reactivity-controlled compression igniti...
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Meiling Sheng, A-Xing Zhu, Tianwu Ma, Xufeng Fei, Zhouqiao Ren and Xunfei Deng
Global climate change is a serious threat to food and energy security. Crop growth modelling is an important tool for simulating crop food production and assisting in decision making. Planting date is one of the important model parameters. Larger-scale s...
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Hassan Al-Budairi, Zhiwei Gao and Andrew Steel
Low-energy rockfall catch fences are designed to protect infrastructure such as railways and roads wherein the kinetic energy of falling rocks is less than 100 kJ. The typical design consists of a double-twisted steel wire mesh supported by ground posts ...
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Krasimir Nedelchev, Elitsa Gieva, Ivan Kralov and Ivelina Ruskova
In the presented article we have investigated the variation of the sound pressure level in characteristic areas around an element of an acoustic barrier with an elliptical shape at different frequencies (from 100 Hz to 2000 Hz). The variation of the soun...
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Carlos Pérez-Collazo, Deborah M. Greaves and Gregorio Iglesias
During the last decade jacket-frames have emerged as the main kind of substructure for bottom-mounted offshore wind farms in intermediate water depths. With the offshore wind industry moving towards deeper waters, the predominance of jacket-frames is exp...
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