The performance of phase change material (PCM) integrated building envelope in terms of peak load reduction, peak load time delay and thermal demand improvement was investigated for a prototype detached single family house in a hot climate location. Five market available PCM layers, which can be easily inserted into traditional wall construction, were selected and coupled into different walls a...

This paper describes the design of power electronic converter circuit and simulating the power electronic converter circuit using Matlab/Simulink for induction heating equipment. The circuit designed has the load as induction coil and high frequency electricity is required to heat the workpiece placed within the induction coil. The output power of the load coil is varied by changing the frequen...

Geothermal energy is a renewable energy source which can provide base-load power supply both for electricity and direct uses, such as space heating. In this paper, district heating systems that are fed by geothermal energy, the so-called geothermal district heating systems, are studied. It is proposed to apply a hot water storage tank in these systems to store hot water in times of low-load and...

Decreasing heating needed energy of building located in mountainous areas without any urban infrastructure of energy supply and services is one of the most important things to get thermal comfort. Accordingly, using building conditions based on different types of applicability and passive design strategies should be considered. Therefore, the objective of this study was to achieve the pro...

In this study, various percentage of DEE was added to the optimum selected ethanol-diesel blend (D-E10) and optimized its blending ratio to overcome the poor ignition quality of ethanol when utilized in a single cylinder DI diesel engine. Some physicochemical properties of test fuels such as heating value, viscosity, and density and distillation profile were determined in accordance to the A...

Low-cost detection of pathogens and biomolecules at the point-of-care promises to revolutionize medicine through more individualized monitoring and increased accessibility to diagnostics in remote and resource-limited areas. While many approaches to biosensing are still limited by expensive components or inadequate portability, we present here an ELISA-inspired lab-on-a-chip strategy for biolog...