The p-linear average method has been developed to estimate the ground thermal parameters for the design of a Ground-Coupled Heat Pump (GCHP) system, including the ground thermal conductivity, the ground thermal diffusivity and the borehole thermal resistance. Conventionally, the parameter p is...

The society and the building professionals have paid much concern in recent years on building energy efficiency and the development and applications of low energy technologies for buildings/green buildings allowing the elimination, or at least reduction of dependence on electricity or fossil...

This study presents a model-based control strategy for a novel dedicated outdoor air-chilled ceiling (DOAS-CC) system with the aim of optimizing the overall system performance. The DOAS-CC system incorporates liquid desiccant dehumidification and membrane-based total heat recovery technologies....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to assess how spatial heterogeneity and production diversification have affected the efficiency of households participating in the SLCP. Design/methodology/approach – Based on household survey data collected from three sample counties in the Loess...

This article describes how understanding human mobility behavior is of great significance for predicting a broad range of socioeconomic phenomena in contemporary society. Although many studies have been conducted to uncover behavioral patterns of intra-urban and inter-urban human mobility, a...

Purpose: As the Chinese outbound travel market has become a paramount target for world tourism with significant growth potential, the purpose of this paper is to discuss the impact that the Chinese outbound travel market has on the European tourism industry. Design/methodology/approach: The...

Governing the simultaneous propagation of N fields in optical fibers and plasmas, the inhomogeneous N-coupled nonlinear Schrödinger equations are, with symbolic computation, analytically investigated in this paper. As one of the important integrable properties, the explicit one- and...

The thermal management systems using EG-based phase change materials (PCMs) can provide power batteries with a proper operating temperature, slow temperature rise rate and uniform temperature distribution. In this study, a systematical investigation on the effects of thermo-physical properties...

A LiNO3/KCl-expanded graphite (EG) composite phase change material (PCM) was prepared for solar thermal energy storage application at high temperature (∼200°C). In such composite material, eutectic system LiNO3/KCl is characterized by high phase change latent heat and EG serves as the heat...