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Urban densification issues are one of the key challenges for most European cities. In this context, the vertical extension of existing buildings provides a solution to create usable spaces without wasting additional land. Little attention has been given to ...

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Commercial buildings account for much of the energy use both in the United States and globally. The role of occupant behavior within the physical building has been found to be an important factor in the overall energy use profile of commercial buildings. R ...

2017

A novel MILP approach for simultaneous optimization of water and energy: Application to a Canadian softwood Kraft pulping mill

François Maréchal, Maziar Kermani, Zoé Périn-Levasseur

An optimization methodology based on Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP) has been developed for simultaneous optimization of water and energy (SOWE) in industrial processes. The superstructure integrates non-water process thermal streams and optimizes ...

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This paper reports a novel fully integrated low power multi-sensing smart system, which, by wafer-level 3D heterogeneous integration of Ion Sensitive Fully Depleted (FD) FETs and SU-8 micro/nanofludics, achieves the first of its kind wearable multi-sensing ...

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A Versatile Noise Performance Metric for Electrical Impedance Tomography Algorithms

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Fabian Braun, Martin Proença

Electrical impedance tomography (EIT) is an emerging technology for real-time monitoring of patients under mechanical ventilation. EIT has the potential to offer continuous medical monitoring while being noninvasive, radiation free, and low cost. Due to th ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2017

Modelling the performance of amorphous and crystalline silicon in different typologies of building-integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) conditions

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Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2017

Aerial Human-Comfortable Collision-free Navigation in Dense Environments

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With current overuse of the road transportation system and planned increase in traffic, inno- vative solutions that overcome environmental and financial cost of the current system should be assessed. A promising idea is the use of the third dimension for p ...

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Evaluating predictive performance of sensor configurations in wind studies around buildings

Ian Smith, Maria Papadopoulou

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The traditional house with horizontal opening: a trend towards zeroenergy house in the hot, dry climates

Claude-Alain Roulet

The aim of this article is to study by numerical simulation with the TRNSYS-COMIS software, the thermo-aeraulic behavior of a traditional house with a horizontal opening in the central space of the house, and in the city of Kenadsa (southwestern Algeria, h ...

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