... simulation electricity supply industry optimal control passive solar buildings Typically, nighttime setup control strategies are utilized in commercial buildings: ensuring acceptable comfort levels (temperature and possibly humidity) during occupancy, and sufficiently high setpoints during...

... of the transmittance. The overall agreement between measured and predicted results serves to verify the experimental procedure. 29 07 2005 26 08 2005 space cooling passive solar buildings In the past, a number of studies ( 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19...

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... radiation using temperature data are also sufficiently accurate and can be utilized for sites for which even sunshine hour data are not measured. This will lead to better inputs for designing and evaluating the performance of solar energy systems including passive solar buildings. Email: chandeḻshyam...

... . Manuscript received by the ASME Solar Division August 2003; final revision March 2004. Associate Editor: M. Krarti. 01 August 2003 01 March 2004 19 07 2004 concrete passive solar buildings air conditioning ventilation atmospheric humidity energy conservation atmospheric...

... 2 . Residential Off-grid High performance Passive solar space heating photovoltaic power systems passive solar buildings solar heating energy conservation space cooling 01 May 2003 01 November 2003 04 05 2004 Contributed by the Solar Energy Division...

... 2003 04 08 2003 passive solar buildings solar heating daylighting ventilation solar absorber-convertors building integrated photovoltaics “One must not believe that the idea of using solar heat is recent. On the contrary, one must recognize that this idea is very ancient...

... transfer heat conduction ventilation passive solar buildings It is well known that massive walls are used in passive solar heating and ventilating systems 1 . To reduce heat losses by convection and infra-red radiation from the warm wall to the environment a glazing system is employed...