BACKGROUND North Carolina Nutrition and Physical Activity Self-Assessment for Child Care (NAP SACC) resources improve child body mass index (BMI) when the resources are introduced by nurses to child care providers, and offered with workshops and incentives. In San Francisco, public health and child care agencies partnered to adapt NAP SACC resources into an annual "Healthy Apple" quality improv...

The technical, economical and environmental performances of combined cooling, heating and power (CCHP) system are closely dependent on its design and operation strategy. This paper analyzes the energy flow of CCHP system and deduces the primary energy consumption following the thermal demand of building. Three criteria, primary energy saving (PES), annual total cost saving (ATCS), and carbon di...

Combined Cooling, Heating and Power (CCHP) systems have been widely used in different kinds of buildings to make better use of fuels because of their high overall efficiency. This paper presents a mathematical analysis of a CCHP system in comparison to a Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) system. The operation strategies following electric load (FEL), thermal load (FTL) and a hybr...

The interest on distributed generation has been increasing in recent years, mainly due to technical development on generation systems that meet environmental and energy policy concerns. One of the most important distributed energy technologies is combined cooling, heat and power (CCHP) systems. CCHP is a small and self-contained electric, heating and cooling generation plant that can provide po...

Performance and economical efficiency of the combined cooling, heating and power (CCHP) system mainly depend on the system structure, operation strategy and choice of facility capacity. This paper proposes a structural configuration of the CCHP system with hybrid chillers, consisting of a combined electric and absorption chiller, whose electric cooling to cool load ratio varies according to dif...