scholarly journals Energy efficiency in buildings research perspectives and trends

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (Suppl. 4) ◽  
pp. 971-976 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vincenzo Corrado
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Building Design ◽  
Building Performance ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Energy Efficiency Improvement ◽  
Research Perspectives ◽  
Building Process ◽  
Energy Environment ◽  
International Experts ◽  
Building Level

The 1st International Conference on Buildings, Energy, Systems, and Technology (BEST 2016), was held in Belgrade, Serbia, on November 2-4,2016. This conference was an opportunity to bring together experts with different skills around the theme of building performance. It covered different aspects (technology, energy, environment, and economy), different scales (from the urban to the building level, including the built environment up to the single technical building systems), and different phases of the building process (from urban planning to building design, up to construction and management). This Special issue contains extended versions of some selected papers presented at BEST 2016, which went through a blind peer review of international experts. The present Editorial introduces the topics of the BEST 2016 and the contents of this Special issue. The focus of the Editorial is the theme of energy efficiency improvement in buildings; it provides an overview of state-of-the-art and of the legislation framework, and a discussion on research perspectives and trends.

scholarly journals Energy Efficiency of Manufacturing Processes and Systems—An Introduction

Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 2885
Author(s):  
Konstantinos Salonitis
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Manufacturing Process ◽  
Manufacturing Processes ◽  
Efficiency Improvement ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Energy Efficiency Improvement ◽  
The World ◽  
New Methodologies ◽  
Significant Attention

This Special Issue of Energies was devoted to the topic of “Energy Efficiency of Manufacturing Processes and Systems”. It attracted significant attention of scholars, practitioners, and policy-makers from all over the world. Eighteen papers on this topic were submitted between 2018 and 2020, and a total of 10 papers were published. Main topics included the energy efficiency improvement in both the manufacturing process and system levels. Furthermore, new methodologies and analysis approaches in developing energy efficiency were presented.

scholarly journals Beyond Cultural and Historic Values, Sustainability as a New Kind of Value for Historic Buildings

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (15) ◽  
pp. 8248
Author(s):  
Belén Onecha ◽  
Alicia Dotor ◽  
Carlos Marmolejo-Duarte
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Energy Performance ◽  
Cultural Value ◽  
Building Performance ◽  
Energy Efficiency Improvement ◽  
Heritage Buildings ◽  
Strict Compliance ◽  
Palma De Mallorca ◽  
Definition Of

In attempts to improve the energy efficiency of protected historical buildings, two barriers arise. The first is the restrictions imposed by authorities that are responsible for cultural heritage preservation. The second is the exclusion of protected buildings from strict compliance with energy efficiency requirements in current regulations, such as the issue of an Energy Performance Certificate, which removes them from conventional channels of public policies. Both of these issues put heritage in a delicate situation, especially when they are intended for privately developed residential uses. This paper presents a methodology for assessing and establishing a trade-off between energy performance and the cultural value of heritage buildings through the comprehensive analysis of a case study: the retrofitting of Can Armengol Palace in Palma de Mallorca (Spain). The study revealed (1) the need to objectify the cultural values of the building as far as possible to identify conflicts with the strategies of energy efficiency improvement; and (2) the appropriateness of considering every aspect of a rehabilitation intervention in a global simultaneous approach, not just energy aspects. The method that was used had five steps: acquiring a deep knowledge of the building configuration, assessing the building performance for every legal requirement, identifying cultural values, defining intervention criteria, and analyzing intervention effects on the protected elements of the building. The most important contribution in this study is the detailed and extended definition of architectural heritage values and the consideration of interventions resulting from sustainability retrofits as a new kind of value, that reflects current worries, for which future generations will remember us.

Touchy-Feely History: The ‘Stuff’ of American Culture

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-18
Author(s):  
Lauren Rebecca Sklaroff
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Race And Ethnicity ◽  
The Body ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Historical Significance ◽  
Research Perspectives ◽  
Economic Trends ◽  
Recent Trends ◽  
New Research

This state of the field essay examines recent trends in American Cultural History, focusing on music, race and ethnicity, material culture, and the body. Expanding on key themes in articles featured in the special issue of Cultural History, the essay draws linkages to other important literatures. The essay argues for more a more serious consideration of the products within popular culture, less as a reflection of social or economic trends, rather for their own historical significance. While the essay examines some classic texts, more emphasis is on work published within the last decade. Here, interdisciplinary methods are stressed, as are new research perspectives developing by non-western historians.

Additional methods to improve the energy efficiency of oil pipeline transportation

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 558-565
Author(s):  
Marat R. Lukmanov ◽  
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Sergey L. Semin ◽  
Pavel V. Fedorov ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Energy Saving ◽  
Pipeline System ◽  
Energy Costs ◽  
Improvement Program ◽  
Oil Pipeline ◽  
Energy Efficiency Improvement ◽  
Oil Transportation ◽  
Pumping Equipment ◽  
Preparatory Work

The challenges of increasing the energy efficiency of the economy as a whole and of certain production sectors in particular are a priority both in our country and abroad. As part of the energy policy of the Russian Federation to reduce the specific energy intensity of enterprises in the oil transportation system, Transneft PJSC developed and implements the energy saving and energy efficiency improvement Program. The application of energy-saving technologies allowed the company to significantly reduce operating costs and emissions of harmful substances. At the same time, further reduction of energy costs is complicated for objective reasons. The objective of this article is to present additional methods to improve the energy efficiency of oil transportation by the example of the organizational structure of Transneft. Possibilities to reduce energy costs in the organization of the operating services, planning and execution of work to eliminate defects and preparatory work for the scheduled shutdown of the pipeline, the use of pumping equipment, including pumps with variable speed drive, the use of various pipelines layouts, changing the volume of oil entering the pipeline system and increase its viscosity.

scholarly journals Energy Efficiency in Smart Homes and Smart Grids

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (8) ◽  
pp. 2054
Author(s):  
Anna Fensel ◽  
Juan Miguel Gómez Berbís
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Smart Grids ◽  
Smart Homes ◽  
Special Issue

Here, we overview the Energies journal special issue that is dedicated to the topic of “Energy Efficiency in Smart Homes and Smart Grids” (https://www [...]

scholarly journals Energy efficiency behaviour in the built environment—an assessment of current evaluation practices in the Nordic countries

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Johansson ◽  
Niko Gentile ◽  
Lena Neij
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Built Environment ◽  
Environmental Psychology ◽  
Behavioural Change ◽  
Nordic Countries ◽  
Potential Contribution ◽  
Evaluation Practices ◽  
Evaluation Approach ◽  
Research Perspectives ◽  
Behavioural Aspects

AbstractBehavioural change is expected to play a significant role in the transformation to a more energy efficient built environment. Despite this, current evaluation practice of interventions often overlook behavioural aspects in their ambition of advancing our knowledge on transformative change. Moreover, little attention is paid to how different research perspectives on human behaviour can complement each other in providing a broader scope and deeper understanding of behavioural change. In this study, we acknowledge this gap, and assess the current evaluation practices on behaviour. The focus is on energy efficiency in the built environment in the Nordic countries, and evaluations undertaken by researchers. The assessment shows that the Nordic evaluations apply a variety of disciplinary approaches, but have only to a limited extent addressed a psychological understanding of individual behaviour and behavioural change. We analyse and discuss the potential contribution of environmental psychology in strengthening a cross disciplinary evaluation approach. In all, the results indicate the value of also adding environmental psychology, to provide a stronger cross disciplinary understanding of behavioural change, and the need to coordinate and combine evaluations departing from different disciplinary approaches, to improve understanding of the transformational process.

Energy efficiency improvement and GHG abatement in the global production of primary aluminium

2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 629-666 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katerina Kermeli ◽  
Peter-Hans ter Weer ◽  
Wina Crijns-Graus ◽  
Ernst Worrell
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Efficiency Improvement ◽  
Energy Efficiency Improvement ◽  
Primary Aluminium
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