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Este proyecto se ha realizado en la asignatura de Expresión Gráfica y Diseño Asistido por Ordenador (EGDAO) del primer curso del Grado en Organización Industrial, perfil Defensa, impartido por el Centro Universitario de la Defensa. En esta asignatura, los estudiantes deben aprender a manejar un software de modelado 3D. En este contexto, se ha desar...
The development of new clean energy production systems is one of the research priorities in the energy sector. There are numerous works that evaluate the efficiency of new energy production plants from the environmental point of view. Among them, large-scale Concentrated Solar Power plants occupy a relevant place. However, medium-size plants, betwe...
This research develops a bottom-up procedure to assess the potential of food-energy-water (FEW) systems on the rooftops of buildings in an urban district in Spain considering the urban morphology of the built environment and obtains accurate assessments of production and developmental patterns. A multicriteria decision-making technique implemented...
Renewable energies can play a very important role in the development of a new energy model contributing
effectively towards a more sustainable development in the mid and long term. In this context Central Solar
Heating Plants with Seasonal Storage (CSHPSS) are able to provide space heating and Domestic Hot Water
(DHW) to residential buildings with...
District heating and cooling systems are designed and optimized to respond to the latest challenges of reducing energy demands while fulfilling comfort standards. Thermal energy storage (TES) with phase change materials can be employed to reduce the energy demands of buildings. This study considers a residential district located in Spain, where a g...
The COVID-19 crisis has changed daily habits and the time that people spend at home. It is expected that this change may have environmental implications because of buildings’ heating energy demand. This paper studies the energy and environmental implications, from a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) approach, due to these new daily habits in residential...
Numerous research studies have focused on the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of solar energy systems, and more concretely, within the last decade, on the environmental performance of parabolic trough solar power plants. Due to ever-increasing global energy demands, the optimization of energy solutions to reduce adverse environmental impacts has been a...
European building legislation is establishing increasingly stricter requirements to reduce the energy demand of buildings as a measure to decrease energy use and associated carbon emissions. In order to comply with the new standards, the most impactful parameters are subject to important revisions. Airtightness is revealed as an impacting parameter...
The introduction of user experience (UX) approach into public services is still a not widespread field. This paper presents a real experience in a University institution, re-designing an academic service that provides to its students from an UX approach. Specifically, the main objective is to improve the efficiency in the use of different resources...
Building policies worldwide are becoming more demanding in terms of improving the energy performance of buildings to ensure that the target for nearly zero-energy buildings (nZEB) will be reached.
Setting the thermal comfort parameters for a nZEB is a big challenge because the parameters must provide adequate indoor thermal conditions while at the...
Mechanical ventilation systems are essential for ensuring the indoor quality of air in nZEB (nearly Zero Energy Buildings) with a high level of airtightness. In cold countries, it has already been demonstrated that Heat Recovery Ventilators (HRV) recovering the sensible energy from air ventilation are needed to achieve the energy demand goals for n...
Heat recovery in ventilation systems for dwellings in cold and mild climates is needed in order to meet the requirements of nearly zero-energy buildings (nZEB) in terms of energy demand. These requirements can be met without heat recovery systems in only a few European areas with warm climates. The energy recovery potential for warm Mediterranean c...
The parameters and conditions that govern the ventilation requirements in residential buildings under current regulations worldwide are not harmonized. The reduction in energy demand and the increase in the thermal comfort in dwellings are mainly conditioned by these parameters. This article reviews and compares the ventilation flow rates in reside...
Legislation in most countries requires a reduction in thermal envelope transmittance and infiltrations (uncontrolled inward air leakage), both being crucial physical parameters in reducing the HVAC energy demand in buildings. The Passivhauss construction standard, which is highlighted by the European Union as an example of nearly zero energy buildi...
The retrofitting initiatives in the aged stock building in Spain can improve the efficient energy during the use with the installation of insulation materials in building envelope, but it can increase the environmental impact of building depending on the insulation material used. The present study analyses the environmental implications of the intr...
The present study presents a life cycle energy analysis (LCEA) of a dwelling façade located in the different climate zones of Spain, obtaining the relation between the embodied energy and the operating energy related to the energy losses through the walls. The embodied energy of the building thermal envelope is calculated according to the environme...
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