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Yusong Wang, Chengxiang Zhu, Ke Xiong and Chunling Zhu
Ice accumulation on airfoils and engines seriously endangers fight safety. The design of anti-icing/de-icing systems calls for an accurate measurement of the adhesion strength between ice and substrates. In this research, a test bench for adhesion streng...
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D. Criado-Ramón, L. G. B. Ruiz, J. R. S. Iruela and M. C. Pegalajar
This paper introduces the first completely unsupervised methodology for non-intrusive load monitoring that does not rely on any additional data, making it suitable for real-life applications. The methodology includes an algorithm to efficiently decompose...
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Junnan Zhou and Tomohiro Tabata
After nearly a decade of rapid development, woody biomass has been widely used in Japan for power generation and heating. However, it has faced bottlenecks in recent years, leading to a decline in its popularity. This study aimed to elucidate the current...
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Jung-Young Son, Jung Kim, Tetiana Venkel, Jongun Park and Gwanghee Heo
The thermal properties of electrically heated carbon-fiber-reinforced mortar prisms with 0.5%, 1.0%, 1.5% and 2.0% of their volumes are investigated. Each prism dimension is 40 mm × 40 mm × 160 mm. When the constant power of 30W is applied to two conduct...
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Yuchen Ju, Pauli Hiltunen, Juha Jokisalo, Risto Kosonen and Sanna Syri
Demand response techniques can be effective at reducing heating costs for building owners. However, few studies have considered the dynamic marginal costs for district heating production and taken advantage of them for building-level demand response. In ...
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Uchechi Ukaegbu, Lagouge Tartibu and C. W. Lim
Energy demand and consumption have, in recent times, witnessed a rapid proliferation influenced by technological developments, increased population and economic growth. This has fuelled research trends in the domain of energy management employing tri-gen...
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Mariia Pokushko, Alena Stupina, Inmaculada Medina-Bulo, Svetlana Ezhemanskaya, Roman Kuzmich and Roman Pokushko
The aim of this study is to solve the problem of increasing the efficiency of fuel and energy complex enterprises. Because such enterprises are complex systems, it is difficult to optimize their work, taking into account all the technical indicators of s...
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Borja Lizarribar, Borja Prieto, Miren Aristizabal, Jose Manuel Martín, Miguel Martínez-Iturralde, Ekain San José, Ione Golvano and Sergio Montes
Recent advances in manufacturing methods have accelerated the exploration of new materials and advantageous shapes that could not be produced by traditional methods. In this context, additive manufacturing is gaining strength among manufacturing methods ...
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Dillon O?Reilly, Georg Herdrich, Felix Schäfer, Christoph Montag, Simon P. Worden, Peter Meaney and Darren F. Kavanagh
Pulsed plasma thrusters (PPT) have demonstrated enormous potential since the 1960s. One major shortcoming is their low thrust efficiency, typically <30%. Most of these losses are due to joule heating, while some can be attributed to poor efficiency of th...
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Evangelos Bellos, Panagiotis Lykas and Christos Tzivanidis
The exploitation of renewable energy sources in the building sector is a challenging aspect of achieving sustainability. The incorporation of a proper storage unit is a vital issue for managing properly renewable electricity production and so to avoid th...
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