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Reflective surfaces (climate engineering)

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Time-strip visualization and thermo-hydrodynamics in a Closed Loop Pulsating Heat Pipe

John Richard Thome, Navid Borhani, Giulia Spinato, Brian Paul D'Entremont

New trends in the microprocessor industry are leading not only to miniaturization and integration but also to increases in power dissipation rates which now require advanced cooling solutions to prevent thermal damage to the devices. Pulsating heat pipes ( ...

Elsevier2015

Towards integrated design strategies for implementing BIPV systems into urban renewal processes : preliminary case study in Neuchâtel (Switzerland)

Sophie Lufkin, Sergi Aguacil Moreno

European energy directives define highly‐demanding performance standards, from zero‐energy buildings to positive‐energy buildings. In Switzerland, one of the specific objectives of the new “Energy strategy 2050” is to install PV systems on existing buildin ...

2015

InGaN laser diodes emitting at 500 nm with p-layers grown by molecular beam epitaxy

Nicolas Grandjean, Eric Feltin, Julien Dorsaz, Antonino Francesco Castiglia, Marco Malinverni, Marco Rossetti, Jean-Michel Jacques Lamy, Denis Martin, Lise Lahourcade

We demonstrate hybrid laser diodes by combining n-type layers and an active region grown by metal organic vapor phase epitaxy with p-type layers grown by molecular beam epitaxy. These p-doped layers, grown at 740 degrees C, exhibit state-of-the-art electri ...

Japan Society of Applied Physics2015

Oil and gas platforms with steam bottoming cycles: System integration and thermoenvironomic evaluation

François Maréchal, Tuong-Van Nguyen

The integration of steam bottoming cycles on oil and gas platforms is currently regarded as the most promising option for improving the performance of these energy-intensive systems. In this paper, a North Sea platform is taken as case study, and a systema ...

Elsevier2014

Building Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV): Review, Potentials, Barriers and Myths

Christophe Ballif, Laure-Emmanuelle Perret Aebi, Patrick Heinstein

To date, none of the predictions that have been made about the emerging BIPV industry have really hit the target. The anticipated boom has so far stalled and despite developing and promoting a number of excellent systems and products, many producers around ...

2013

Temporally Coherent Completion of Dynamic Shapes

Mark Pauly, Hao Li

We present a novel shape completion technique for creating temporally coherent watertight surfaces from real-time captured dynamic performances. Because of occlusions and low surface albedo, scanned mesh sequences typically exhibit large holes that persist ...

2012

Air handling unit condensate in tropical and subtropical climates - Why waste down the drain?

Dusan Licina

In tropical and subtropical regions, air-conditioning is employed throughout the year, which poses a significant challenge to the designer in reducing its energy consumption. Buildings in these regions would have latent load that is large enough throughout ...

2012

Integrative approach to assess the performance of light-interacting façades and building materials

Marilyne Andersen

Use of daylight offers great potential benefits in terms of energy savings, visual comfort and health, as long as it is properly controlled. This project is motivated by the necessity to describe façade systems and interior surfaces in order to quantify an ...

2012

High quantum efficiency, low emittance electron beam from multifilamentary cathodes.

Christoph Peter Hauri, Fernando Ardana Lamas

We present a new type of metallic cathode, reaching quantum efficiency of 10(3). This value together with the estimated emittance, gives a brilliance of 2.8x10(13) A/m(2), making this cathode an excellent candidate for an ultrashort electron source. (C) 20 ...

Ieee2012

Practical issues in the development of a minimalistic power management solution for WSNs

Jorge Miguel Dias Almeida Rodrigues Soares

A flexible Wireless Sensor Network platform for implementation of diverse applications has been developed and deployed at Instituto Superior Técnico - Technical University of Lisbon (IST-TUL). Since its initial deployment in 2007, this testbed has grown st ...

2010

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