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Criteria and policies to master the visual impact of solar systems in urban environments: The LESO-QSV method

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Evaluation of a Combined Cycle Setup for Solar Tower Power Plants

James Spelling

As our awareness of the dangers of global climate change grows, the development of new renewable energy technologies is of primary importance in the effort to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. Rapid increases in the price of oi ...

2008

Assessment of Solar Thermal Power Technologies

James Spelling

In the present climate of growing awareness about the dangers of global climate change, the development of new renewable energy technologies is primordial in the efforts to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. Rapid increases in t ...

2008

SOLABS: Development of a Novel Solar Thermal Facade Cladding System

Christian Roecker, Maria Cristina Munari Probst

Within the European project SOLABS (Development of unglazed coloured solar absorbers) a novel performing unglazed metal collector has been developed, using a coloured absorber and with special focus on the architectural integration of the solar system. The ...

2006

Comfort and well-being in solar buildings - Results from a European Audit

Claude-Alain Roulet

ABSTRACT : The Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) requires EU member states to establish a methodology for calculating the energy performance of buildings within a framework that includes the effect of active and passive solar systems as well ...

2006

Compact cities in a sustainable manner

Marylène Montavon, Raphaël Compagnon

Densification is generally assumed to exert negative impacts on urban daylight and solar potential, however, this paper demonstrates the possibilities to increase usable floor area and plot ratio without undermining the opportunities of daylight and solar ...

2006

La Ville Radieuse by Le Corbusier, once again a case study

Marylène Montavon, Raphaël Compagnon

ABSTRACT: La Ville Radieuse, ‘The Contemporary City for Three Million Inhabitants’ proposed by Le Corbusier for central Paris is a myth in the history of contemporary town planning. The proposal, according to Le Corbusier, could increase the urban capacity ...

2006

Integration and formal development of solar thermal collectors

Christian Roecker, Maria Cristina Munari Probst

The paper presents selected results of an investigation over possible ways to improve Building Integrated Solar Thermal systems (BIST) on the formal level. It shows the results of a European survey intended to help defining quality in the architectural int ...

2005

Solurban Project, Solar Utilisation Potential of Urban Sites

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Darren Robinson, Marylène Montavon, Raphaël Compagnon

Besides providing a more efficient energy use, a large scale application of solar energy technologies in the urban context will be required in the upcoming decades to achieve a drastic reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in the biosphere. Three different ...

2005

Glazing

Josef Andreas Schuler

GLAZING Field of the invention The present invention relates to glazings which, in particular, may be used in solar collectors. In the present text, the term "glazing" means any material, e.g. glass or polycarbonate, transparent to visible electromagnetic ...

2003

Glazing

Andreas Schueler

Field of the invention The present invention relates to glazings which, in particular, may be used in solar collectors. In the present text, the term "glazing" means any material, e.g. glass or polycarbonate, transparent to visible electromagnetic radiatio ...

2003