This paper takes an integrated analysis approach to explore the options available for a UK homeowner to reduce their domestic emissions to the level advised by the UK governments Committee on Climate Change of 20% of those associated with a typical house in 1990. It uses proven thermal models of...

Traditional approaches to understand the problem of the energy performance in the domestic sector include on-site surveys by energy assessors and the installation of complex home energy monitoring systems. The time and money that needs to be invested by the occupants and the form of feedback...

This is the property of earth that at a depth of about 1.5 to 2m, the temperature of ground remains almost constant throughout the year. This constant temperature is called earth’s undisturbed temperature which remains higher than surface temperature of earth in winter season and vice versa in...

The construction and the performance evaluation of a new box-type solar cooker equipped with an asymmetric Compound Parabolic Concentrator (CPC) are presented. The optogeometrical design of the cooker was optimized for Adrar which is located in Algerian Sahara. A thermal model was developed for...

Permanent magnet electrical motors are more and more currently used in car manufacture. A very constraining utilization reduces their life duration. Authors of this paper propose a new way to define reliability criterions of these low power machines. Most of internal fragility locations are...