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Bibliographic database Airbase
AIRBASE is the Bibliographic Database of the AIVC. It contains publications and abstracts of articles related to energy efficient ventilation. Where possible, sufficient detail is supplied in the bibliographic details for users to trace and order the material via their own libraries. Topics include: ventilation strategies, design and retrofit methods, calculation techniques, standards and regulations, measurement methods, indoor air quality and energy implications etc. Entries are based on articles and reports published in journals, internal publications and research reports, produced both by university departments and by building research institutions throughout the world. AIRBASE has grown and evolved over many years (1979 to present day, over 22000 references and 16000 documents available online). For most of the references, the full document is also available online.
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EECCAC is an EU funded project, where twelve participants (National Energy Agencies, Manufacturers, University laboratories and Electric utilities) from eight countries gathered to identify the most suitable measures to achieve market transformati
Commissioning plays an essential role for ensuring the quality of any HVAC system.
The balance between thermal comfort and air quality in healthcare facilities to optimize the Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) is the main aim of this paper. The present paper will present this balance from the viewpoint of the air conditioning design.
Airflow characteristics in ventilated and air-conditioned spaces play an important role to attain comfort and hygiene conditions.
Se analizan las posibilidades que se han visto tienen el empleo de los acumuladores de cambio de fase en la climatización, destacándose las ventajas que se han encontrado, tales como: la posible eliminación de las torres y condensadores evaporativ
La percepción del ambiente térmico no depende únicamente de los parámetros ambientales, sino que es un fenómeno que incluye muchos más factores del entorno interior y exterior, del sujeto que percibe estos parámetros.
The application of system identification techniques to the energy performance of buildings and building components requires a very high level of knowledge of physical and mathematical processes.
The paper presents the results of the measurements and integrated simulation of the energy demand and air exchange in one of the flats located in a 5-storey building located in urban area. The experiment was carried out during 3 weeks of March.
The purpose of this work was to determine U and g coefficients of the external wall with transparent insulation under real external climatic conditions.
A number of differences between the experimental results and the calculated thermal behaviour results of the timber frame walls have been obtained during the investigation carried out at summer operation conditions.
System identification allows the development of a dynamic model of a process. Such techniques have been applied also to the processes describing the thermal performance of buildings.
From the experience gained in several EU research projects, an improved design for a common Test Reference Environment was made allowing the assessment of experimental data for electrical and thermal performance evaluation of photovoltaic systems
The PASLINK test facilities and analysis procedures aim to obtain the thermal and solar characteristics of building components under real dynamic outdoor conditions.
This paper presents the application of IDENT Graphical User Interface of MATLAB to estimate the thermal properties of building components from outdoors dynamic testing, imposing appropriate physical constraints and assuming linear and time invaria
Parameter identification techniques are a powerful tool for the determination of thermophysical properties of building components.
Outdoor testing of building and building components under real weather conditions provide useful information about the dynamical performance.
The IQ-Test Thematic Network has carried out round robin tests at 10 of the PASLINK outdoor test cell facilities.
The construction and development of the PASSYS outdoor test cells were funded by the European Commission with the objective of providing high quality test environments for quantifying the performance of passive solar building components.
As overheating problems in glassy buildings came up more and more, EMPA put a focus on the determination and modelling of the total solar energy transmittance (TSET) of multiple glazing combined with different shading systems within the framework