Energy conservation and renewable technologies for buildings to face the impact of the climate change and minimize the use of cooling

F Ascione - Solar Energy, 2017 - Elsevier
Facing the climate change is a common priority, due to ethical issues related to general
concept of sustainability and livable future for the next generations. Moreover, ethical aims …

System principles and applications of hybrid sorption–compression heat pump–A review

P Gao, MM Chang, CL Zhang, LL Shao - International Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Heat pumps are widely used in energy conversion and management. To take full advantage
of vapor compression and sorption principles, hybrid sorption–compression heat pumps …

Thermo-economic sensitivity analysis by dynamic simulations of a small Italian solar district heating system with a seasonal borehole thermal energy storage

G Ciampi, A Rosato, S Sibilio - Energy, 2018 - Elsevier
Solar energy is a promising option for reducing both energy consumption and harmful gas
emissions. Seasonal thermal energy storage is a challenging key technology able to …

Study on the heating performance of absorption-compression hybrid heat pump in severe cold regions

Q Ji, Z Han, X Zhang, X Sun, G Li, X Li… - Applied Thermal …, 2021 - Elsevier
Traditional heating methods are polluted and inefficient, more than, conventional air source
absorption heat pump has poor heating performance at low temperature. To overcome these …

Impact of seasonal thermal energy storage design on the dynamic performance of a solar heating system serving a small-scale Italian district composed of residential …

A Rosato, A Ciervo, G Ciampi, M Scorpio… - Journal of Energy …, 2019 - Elsevier
A centralized solar hybrid heating system serving a small-scale district composed of 6 typical
Italian residential buildings and 3 schools located in Naples (southern Italy) has been …

Effects of solar field design on the energy, environmental and economic performance of a solar district heating network serving Italian residential and school buildings

A Rosato, A Ciervo, G Ciampi, S Sibilio - Renewable Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
In this paper a centralized hybrid renewable district heating system based on the
exploitation of solar energy and integrated with a seasonal borehole thermal energy storage …

Thermochemical energy storage

H Bao, Z Ma - Storing Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Thermochemical energy storage (TCES) utilizes a reversible chemical reaction and takes
the advantages of strong chemical bonds to store energy as chemical potential. Compared …

Thermal model validation of an electric-driven smart window through experimental data and evaluation of the impact on a case study

G Ciampi, M Scorpio, Y Spanodimitriou, A Rosato… - Building and …, 2020 - Elsevier
This study discusses a full-scale Electric-Driven smart window from both an experimental
and numerical point of view. The first part of this paper reports the experimental …

Experimental evaluation of a semi-open membrane-based absorption heat pump system utilizing ionic liquids

D Chugh, KR Gluesenkamp, A Abu-Heiba, M Alipanah… - Applied Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
While the use of energy efficient absorption heat pumps has been typically limited to the
high capacity commercial and industrial applications, the use of a semi-open absorption …

Energy performance of PVC-Coated polyester fabric as novel material for the building envelope: Model validation and a refurbishment case study

G Ciampi, Y Spanodimitriou, M Scorpio… - Journal of Building …, 2021 - Elsevier
Tensile materials are concurrently becoming more and more utilized in contemporary
architecture design, despite a lack of experimental testing and numerical model …