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Konstantinou, T. (author), de Jonge, Tim (author), Oorschot, L.M. (author), El Messlaki, S. (author), van Oel, C.J. (author), Asselbergs, M.F. (author)Purpose: Decarbonising the housing stock is one of the largest challenges in the built environment today, which is getting the attention not only from policymakers but also from social housing corporations, financial organisations and users. In line with the international Paris-Climate-Change-Conference 2015, Dutch cities and housing...journal article 2020
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Naranjani, Benyamin (author), Roohi, Ehsan (author), Ebrahimi, Amin (author)Cooling of electronic devices is one of the critical challenges that the electronics industry is facing towards sustainable development. Aiming at lowering the surface temperature of the heat sink to limit thermally induced deformations, corrugated channels and nanofluids are employed to improve the thermal and hydraulic performances of a...journal article 2020
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Konstantinou, T. (author), de Jonge, Tim (author), Oorschot, L.M. (author), El Messlaki, S. (author), van Oel, C.J. (author), Asselbergs, M.F. (author)Decarbonizing the housing stock is one of the largest challenges in the built environment today, and is getting attention not only from policymakers, but also from social housing corporations, financial and tenants’ organisations. In line with the international Paris-Climate-Change-Conference 2015, Dutch cities and housing associations have...conference paper 2020
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Bedocchi, Carolina (author)In the Netherlands, the residential building sector accounts for 20% of energy consumption and 14% of carbon emissions. To reach the ambitious National targets of decreasing energy consumption and to stop this sector’s reliance on natural gas, a wide renovation of the building stock is needed. Residential buildings’ energy performance has to...master thesis 2019
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Biesheuvel, Bas (author)TechnipFMC is pushing innovations to reduce the emissions of ethylene plants separations. This development is also driven by customer demands. They face increasingly strict legislation on \ce{CO2} emissions. Separation in distillation columns is one of the major energy intensive unit operations in an ethylene plant, and increasing their...master thesis 2019
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Akgün, O.C. (author), Mangia, Mauro (author), Pareschi, Fabio (author), Rovatti, Riccardo (author), Setti, Gianluca (author), Serdijn, W.A. (author)This paper presents the design of an ultra-low energy, rakeness-based compressed sensing (CS) system that utilizes time-mode (TM) signal processing (TMSP). To realize TM CS operation, the presented implementation makes use of monostable multivibrator based analog-to-time converters, fixed-width pulse generators, basic digital gates and an...conference paper 2019
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Zucca, Mauro (author), Bottauscio, Oriano (author), Harmon, Stuart (author), Guilizzoni, Roberta (author), Schilling, Florian (author), Schmidt, Matthias (author), Ankarson, Peter (author), Bauer, P. (author), Dong, J. (author)The European Union funded project MICEV aims at improving the traceability of electrical and magnetic measurement at charging stations and to better assess the safety of this technology with respect to human exposure. The paper describes some limits of the instrumentation used for electrical measurements in the charging stations, and briefly...conference paper 2019
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Tronchin, Lamberto (author), Manfren, Massimiliano (author), Nastasi, B. (author)The identification of techno-economically feasible decarbonisation paths and sustainability transitions for the built environment is a necessary task for research today and building stock renovation processes can act in synergy with innovative economic and technological development paradigms to achieve different types of benefits such as...journal article 2019
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Nguyen, P.A. (author), Bokel, R.M.J. (author), van den Dobbelsteen, A.A.J.F. (author)Purpose: Refurbishing houses is considered a key measure to improve the energy efficiency of the built environment. However, little is known about the implementation and outcome of housing renovation for energy upgrades in the Vietnamese practice. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the energy performance of the current housing stock...journal article 2019
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de Vries, G. (author), Rietkerk, M. (author), Kooger, R. (author)In order to reach climate goals, policymakers stimulate homeowners to invest in sustainable measures in and around their house. Unfortunately, however, the number of green home measures lacks behind. This article introduces perceived hassle as an important reason for this shortfall. It is claimed that homeowners perceive hassle during different...journal article 2019
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Mlecnik, E. (author), Straub, A. (author), Haavik, T. (author)In the EU, housing retrofit rates have to increase to about 2.5–3% of the housing stock per year to achieve policy goals. The development of new business models and collaboration of SMEs in a fragmented market is expected to result in an increase in home renovations. This study presents a way to better understand the usefulness of the...journal article 2019
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Filippidou, F. (author), Nieboer, N.E.T. (author), Visscher, H.J. (author)Energy renovations offer unique opportunities to increase the energy efficiency of the built environment and for the existing housing stock; they are the most important solution. Usually, energy savings are based on modeling calculations. However, recent research has shown that the predicted energy consumption differs largely from the actual...journal article 2019
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Raji, B. (author)With the aim to limit the number of ineffective designs, this dissertation has investigated the impact of architectural design strategies on improving the energy performance of and thermal comfort in high-rise office buildings in temperate, sub-tropical and tropical climates. As the starting-point of this research, a comparative study between...doctoral thesis 2018
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Suárez, Rafael (author), Escandon, R. (author), López-Pérez, Ramón (author), León-Rodríguez, Ángel Luis (author), Klein, T. (author), Silvester, S. (author)According to the IPCC Climate Change projections by 2050 temperatures in southern Spain will have increased noticeably during the summer. Housing-in its current form-will not be able to provide a suitable response to this new climate scenario, and will in turn prompt an increase in cooling energy consumption and a series of problems relating...journal article 2018
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Jiang, H. (author), Amani, Samira (author), Vogel, J.G. (author), Heidary Shalmany, S. (author), Nihtianova, S. (author)This paper describes a high-performance Capacitance-to-Digital Converter (CDC) for sub-nm displacement sensing with an electrically floating target. Intended to be integrated into a displacement sensor probe, the CDC consumes only 560μW. It achieves 98.5dB SNR in a 1ms conversion time, which is 34 times more energy-efficient than the prior...conference paper 2018
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Pan, S. (author), Makinwa, K.A.A. (author)Temperature sensors based on Wheatstone bridges, e.g. [1,2], have recently achieved higher resolution and greater energy efficiency than conventional BJT-based sensors [3]. However, this comes at the expense of area, making them less attractive in industrial applications. This paper presents a Wheatstone-bridge sensor that uses a zoom-ADC...conference paper 2018
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Ortiz, Marco A. (author), Bluyssen, P.M. (author)Two main strategies have generally been used for tackling energy reduction: one dealing with the design and development of building systems and appliances that are engineered to be as efficient as possible while meeting standards, the other addressing the user, usually through campaigns, advertisements, or physical interventions, with the...abstract 2018
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Kwon, M. (author), Remøy, H.T. (author)The building sector accounts for more than one-third of the total primary energy use and has significant potential for energy saving [1]. However, various physical and social factors affect the energy performance of dynamic systems, such as the indoor climate condition, the building envelope, maintenance, building equipment, operation, and...abstract 2018
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Zhou, H. (author)The research presented in this thesis focuses on the use of hydrate slurries in the air conditioning and refrigeration areas. Both experimental and mathematical methods have been used. Hydrate slurries have been suggested as promising cold storage materials that can be used in air conditioning systems due to their high latent heat (193 kJ/kg and...doctoral thesis 2017
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Carvajal Carreño, W. (author)Energy consumption reduction is one of the priorities of metro operators, due to financial cost and environmental impact. The new signalling system Communications- Based Train Control (CBTC) is being installed in new and upgraded metro lines to increase transportation capacity. But its continuous communication feature also permits to improve the...doctoral thesis 2017