Organic Rankine cycle systems are suitable technologies for utilization of low/medium-
temperature heat sources, especially for small-scale systems. Waste heat from engines in …

This book is about dynamical systems that are" hybrid" in the sense that they contain both
continuous and discrete state variables. Recently there has been increased research …

Recent European communications focus on the enforcement that by 2020 all new buildings
are nearly Zero-Energy Buildings (ZEBs) and on the deployment of a European Smart Grid …

Monte Carlo (MC) techniques are commonly used to perform uncertainty and sensitivity
analyses. A key element of MC methods is the sampling of input parameters for the …

The requirements engineering of Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems is extremely
challenging due to large system sizes, component heterogeneity, involvement of multi …

As automatic sensing and information and communication technology get cheaper, building
monitoring data becomes easier to obtain. The availability of data leads to new opportunities …

Energy trading markets are one of the most viable solutions to incentivize prosumers in
Microgrids. They offer the utility a versatile access for flexible loads coordination without …

Building performance simulation is most often used to improve the design and at times the
operation of buildings. Within a building model, the thermal characteristics of the envelope …

The square root characteristic commonly used to model the flow through hydraulic orifices
may cause numerical problems because the derivative of the flow with respect to the …

Water scarcity and sustainable energy production are critical global challenges. This study
addresses these issues by develo** a simulation tool for solar thermal cogeneration …