Effective PCM, insulation, natural and/or night ventilation techniques to enhance the thermal performance of buildings located in various climates–A review

P Arumugam, V Ramalingam, P Vellaichamy - Energy and Buildings, 2022 - Elsevier
Maintaining healthy and comfortable indoors through passive ways is challenging due to the
changing and extreme climatic conditions. The aim of this work is to review the thermal …

An overview on energy and development of energy integration in major South Asian countries: the building sector

RA Salam, KP Amber, NI Ratyal, M Alam, N Akram… - Energies, 2020 - mdpi.com
India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh (IPB) are the largest South Asian countries in terms of land
area, gross domestic product (GDP), and population. The growth in these countries is …

An experimental investigation on the performance of a flat-plate solar collector using eco-friendly treated graphene nanoplatelets–water nanofluids

N Akram, R Sadri, SN Kazi, SM Ahmed… - Journal of thermal …, 2019 - Springer
The research on the use of nanofluids in thermal energy devices, like solar collectors, has
secured a high place in the scientific community of recent years. In the present study, the …

A novel approach to develop climate classification based on degree days and building energy performance

B Omarov, SA Memon, J Kim - Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
The degree days (DD) approach is one of the most extensively used methods for building-
oriented climate zoning. However, DD only provides a limited view of the influence of …

Sensitivity analysis of passive design strategies for residential buildings in cold semi-arid climates

WA Mahar, G Verbeeck, S Reiter, S Attia - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
Buildings are significant drivers of greenhouse gas emissions and energy consumption.
Improving the thermal comfort of occupants in free-running buildings and avoiding active …

Determining base temperature for heating and cooling degree-days for India

M Bhatnagar, J Mathur, V Garg - Journal of Building Engineering, 2018 - Elsevier
Internationally, the cooling degree-days (CDD) and heating degree-days (HDD) have been
commonly used as indicators of cooling and heating load occurring due to outdoor …

Life-cycle cost analysis of building wall and insulation materials

D Kumar, PXW Zou, RA Memon… - Journal of Building …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Heat transfer through building opaque envelope is responsible for approximately half of the
total heat loss and gain to and from the surroundings. Therefore, insulation materials are …

[HTML][HTML] Techno-economic assessment of solar water heating systems for sustainable tourism in northern Pakistan

MN Arif, A Waqas, FA Butt, M Mahmood… - Alexandria Engineering …, 2022 - Elsevier
This study is designed to examine the feasibility of the solar water heating (SWH) system for
sustainable tourism in Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) of Pakistan and a tourist resort is taken as a base …

Design of an EnergyPlus model-based smart controller for maintaining thermal comfortable environment in non-domestic building

T Naseem, A Javed, MT Hamayun, M Jawad… - IEEE …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems account for 59% of energy
consumption in domestic buildings and 36% in non-domestic buildings. According to a …

Balance point temperature and heating degree-days in different climate conditions for building energy efficiency applications

Z Hao, X Zhang, J **e, K Yin, J Liu - Building and Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
The precise calculation of heating degree-days (HDD) depends on the correct building
balance point temperature, which however has often been limited by ignoring complex …