Meriem Soussi

• PhD
• Assistant Professor at National Institute of Research in Rural Engineering Water and Forests (INRGREF)

This paper investigates the application of a Brine-based Liquid Desiccant Air-conditioning System (LDAS) for use in greenhouses in Tunisia, aiming to address the energy-intensive nature of conventional climate control methods. Seawater brines from Tunisian Salinas are chosen as cost-effective and environmentally sustainable desiccants, despite chal...

Improving the thermal insulation and energy efficiency of building envelopes is a major objective worldwide and has significantly developed in the recent years. This study aims to evaluate the impact of ecological additive and passive strategies on building energy efficiency. An experimental study was carried out to examine the effect of the incorp...

Africa is the driest of the world continents with the challenge of drylands, including arid, semi-arid, and dry sub-humid regions, covering a substantial 43% of the continent's land area and...

The closed greenhouse is an innovative crop system in the horticulture sector, integrating appropriate climate control equipment and optimized techniques to collect, store, and reuse solar energy for heating and/or cooling the greenhouse. This concept aims to improve the crop yield and quality with energy efficient and water-saving technologies. A...

This work is motivated by the difficulty of cultivating crops in horticulture greenhouses under hot and arid climate conditions. The main challenge is to provide a suitable greenhouse indoor environment, with sufficiently low costs and low environmental impacts. The climate control inside the greenhouse constitutes an efficient methodology for main...

Due to the economic development and occupancy requests, building thermal comfort reached higher levels during the last years. Energy consumption rates have become excessive and engendered an increasing reliance on fossil-fuel reserves. Hence, the conception of energy-efficient buildings as well as applying solar cooling techniques has become a prom...

The paper dealt in its first part with the assessment of the thermal behavior of an office building located in the Center of Researches and Energy Technologies. The second part focused on the evaluation of the performance of the solar absorption plant used for cooling. The simulations assessed the building in its existing structure and in its passi...

The energy performance of a solar cooled office building located in Tunisia is studied using the TRNSYS software. The simulations assessed the real case study and analysed the impact of its architectural characteristics and passive techniques on its energy requirements. The impact of solar passive heating techniques already implemented in the envel...

Energy efficient coatings constitute a powerful passive solar strategy that favours indoor lighting, heat gain and inside thermal comfort as well as a pleasing aesthetics. For this reason, the thermal performance of a solar-cooled building including several windows has been studied in this paper using different types of windows. Several simulations...

Buildings have an important contribution in primary energy consumption all around the world. For this reason, the conception of energy-efficient or "zero-energy" buildings that incorporate passive features and rely on renewable energies has become a priority encouraged by international regulations. The aim of the current work is to evaluate the ene...

A thermodynamic modelling of an ammonia-water absorption chiller has been carried out using the EES (engineering equation solver) environment. The equations governing the thermal and mass transfers in the different chiller components and internal piping have been solved. The model calculates the properties of the binary solution (ammonia-water) at...

Nous présentons dans cet article un modèle de machine frigorifique à absorption développé sous l’environnement EES (Engineering Equation Solver). Ce modèle nous permet d’étudier les différents phénomènes régissant le fonctionnement d’une machine frigorifique à absorption à simple effet fonctionnant avec le couple eau-ammoniac. Les simulations effec...