Passive cooling is inevitable for buildings to be resilient global warming. While many forms of passive techniques have been developed, radiative (RC), as an emerging technology, still not widely applied in buildings. Due current limitations, proposals implementing RC come up combination with other design strategies. In this study, we propose combine natural ventilation the form a novel RC-enha...

In recent years, water collecting systems, with the associated advantages of energy saving and noise reduction, have become foundation for development a scheme to optimize structure cooling towers. To explore feasibility this approach mechanical draft towers, small-scale experimental device has been built study resistance splash performances three U-type devices (WCDs) different flow rates wind...

Sasol One abstracts large volumes of water from various sources, such as the Zuikerbosch & Vaal River for various applications including make-up to the cooling water systems. In an attempt to evaluate the use of underground MW as an alternative cooling medium, two pilot-scale cooling towers (CTs) were used. Data of five runs (3 weeks each) at different linear flow velocities (LFVs) and cycles o...

This paper focused on energy consumption and carbon emission for heating and cooling during a building’s operation stage, and examined the energy effects of using Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) as an alternative building material to reinforced concrete (RC) in China’s 31 key cities located in different climate zones. The authors designed two seven-story residential buildings, which were construct...