A survey on the effects of deicing materials on properties of Cement-based materials

HU Sajid, A Jalal, R Kiran, A Al-Rahim - Construction and Building …, 2022 - Elsevier
Deicers ensure safe mobility across roadways in winter. Despite their advantages, deicers
deteriorate concrete and are hence detrimental to concrete pavements and bridge decks …

Review and forecast of ground heat exchangers development: A bibliometric analysis from 2001 to 2020

S Zeng, Z Yan, J Yang - Sustainable Energy Technologies and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Ground heat exchangers (GHEs) are rapidly gaining acceptance as an innovative
technology for using geothermal energy. In this study, an integrated approach was used to …

Feasibility assessment of implementing energy pile-based snowmelt system on a practical bridge deck in diverse climate conditions across China

X Cao, G Kong, C Han - Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
The accumulation of snow on roads poses substantial challenges to traffic flow, incurring
profound human safety concerns and considerable financial losses. To address this issue, a …

Design and optimization of deep coaxial borehole heat exchangers for cold sedimentary basins

V Gascuel, J Raymond, C Rivard, JS Marcil… - Geothermics, 2022 - Elsevier
Heating performance of deep borehole heat exchangers (DBHEs) is heavily impacted by its
design and operating flow rate. Here, various designs of coaxial DBHEs were numerically …

Modeling and assessment of operation economic benefits for hydronic snow melting pavement system

H Xu, H Shi, Y Tan, Q Ye, X Liu - Applied Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Hydronic snow melting pavement systems have been proposed as an energy conservation
technology for pavement snow removal in response to global climate change. However, the …

Decarbonization performances of a transcritical CO2 heat pump for building heating: A case study

W Zhao, Y Zhang, H Li, X Cao, L Li, B Li - Energy and Buildings, 2023 - Elsevier
An experimental transcritical CO 2 heat pump system was implemented in the severely cold
region, Harbin (China), and the energy and exergy performances as affected by the …

Implementing micro energy piles: A novel geothermal energy harvesting technique for enhancing foundation safety and cooling system efficiency in electric power …

AA Garakani, A Derakhshan - Geothermics, 2024 - Elsevier
The numerical assessment of Micro Energy Piles (MEPs) to enhance foundation bearing
capacity (Q u) and cooling efficiency of 400-kV transformers is followed by economic …

A novel full-scale external geothermal heating system for bridge deck de-icing

O Habibzadeh-Bigdarvish, X Yu, T Li, G Lei… - Applied Thermal …, 2021 - Elsevier
The utilization of geothermal energy for melting snow and ice on bridge decks has been
shown to be effective. However, the existing geothermal heating systems work through …

Underground solar energy storage via energy piles

Q Ma, P Wang - Applied energy, 2020 - Elsevier
Conventional piles embedded with geothermal loops, referred to as energy piles, have been
successfully used as heat exchangers for the ground source heat pump system. For heating …

Data-driven models for the steady thermal performance prediction of energy piles optimized by metaheuristic algorithms

S Hu, G Kong, C Zhang, J Fu, S Li, Q Yang - Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
This study presents a comprehensive approach for predicting the steady heat performance
of energy piles via hybrid models optimized by using four metaheuristic algorithms: the …