Renewable Energy and Sustainable Buildings: Selected Papers from the World Renewable Energy Congress WREC 2018

969 Pages·2020·46.675 MB·English

by  Ali Sayigh

Innovative Renewable Energy
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Renewable Energy
and Sustainable
Buildings
Selected Papers from the World
Renewable Energy Congress WREC 2018
Innovative Renewable Energy
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Ali Sayigh
World Renewable Energy Congress, Brighton, UK
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Renewable Energy
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Selected Papers from the World Renewable
Energy Congress WREC 2018
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Contents
1 Leading Role of ISESCO in the Field of Renewable Energy
and Promotion of the Concept of Green and Sustainable Cities
in the Islamic World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
H. E. Abdulaziz Othman Altwaijri
2 Energy Policies at Crossroads: Will Europe’s 2030 Targets and
Framework be in Line with the Paris Climate Agreement? . . . . . . . . 5
Rainer Hinrichs-Rahlwes
3 Field Test, Dynamic Simulation and Fatigue Analysis of a Small Wind
Turbine Operating in a Highly Turbulent Environment . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Tebogo Pooe, Mitsumasa Iino, and Abdulrhman Elawady
4 Evaluation of Performance Losses and Degradation of Aged Crystalline
Si Photovoltaic Modules Installed in Minas Gerais (Brazil) . . . . . . . . 29
Antonia Sônia A. C. Diniz, Denio A. Cassini, Michele C. C. de
Oliveira, Vanessa F. C. de Lins, Marcelo Machado Viana, Daniel
Sena Braga, and Lawrence L. Kazmerski
5 The Bioclimatic Approach in Developing Smart Urban Isles for
Sustainable Cities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
D. K. Serghides, S. Dimitriou, I. Kyprianou, and C. Papanicolas
6 Plug&Play: Self-Sufficient Technological Devices for Outdoor Spaces
to Mitigate the UHI Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Alessandra Battisti, Flavia Laureti, and Giulia Volpicelli
7 Smart Homes and Regions as Building Blocks for 100% Renewable
Energy Globally . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Winfried Hoffmann
8 Climate Change: An Overview of Potential Health Impacts Associated
with Climate Change Environmental Driving Forces . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Jazla Fadda
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9 Simultaneous Clean Water and Power Production
from Seawater Using Osmosis: Process Simulation
and Techno-economic Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Elena Barbera, Luca Zorzetto, Adel O. Sharif, and Alberto Bertucco
10 Cooling of PV Panels for Performance Enhancement
of Grid-Connected Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Kamaruzzaman Sopian, Ali H. A. Alwaeli, Ali Najah Al-Shamani,
and Mohd Yusof Othman
11 Plasmonic Coupling Enhanced Absorption and Fluorescence
Emission in Thin Film Luminescent Solar Concentrator . . . . . . . . . . 149
S. Chandra and S. J. McCormack
12 Addressing the Energy Challenges: Needs and Perspectives . . . . . . . 161
Osman Benchikh
13 T he Impact of the Rise of Using Solar Energy in GCC Countries . . . 167
W. E. Alnaser and N. W. Alnaser
14 A rchitectural Education for Sustainability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Derya Oktay
15 Dutch Efforts Towards Sustainable Schools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
Wim Zeiler
16 Demand-Side Energy Flexibility Management of Office Buildings . . 209
Wim Zeiler
17 Toward Green Building and Eco-cities in the UAE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Riadh H. AL-Dabbagh
18 Renewable Energy in Africa: Changing Support Systems . . . . . . . . . 235
Terence Cook and David Elliott
19 Measure the Embodied Energy in Building Materials: An Eco-
Sustainable Approach for Construction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
Francesca Scalisi and Cesare Sposito
20 Optimizing Building Form for Integration of Solar Photovoltaic
in the Design of a Textile Industry in Katsina, Nigeria . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
Amina Batagarawa, Yusuf Ahmed Abdulkarim, and Musa Lawal
Sagada
21 Storage for Community Electricity: A Comparison Between Batteries
and Mini Pumped Hydro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281
Gülce Onbaşılı, Arthur Williams, and Sandeep Dhundhara
22 Urban Microclimate and Thermal Comfort in the Social Housing
Districts of Rome: The Combined Effect of Built Form and Urban
Materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
Michele Morganti and Federica Rosso
Contents vii
23 A Technical Evaluation of Performance Characteristics for Pump
as Turbine Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303
Ombeni J. Mdee, Cuthbert Z. Kimambo, Torbjorn K. Nielsen, and
Joseph Kihedu
24 Performance Improvement of Contra- Rotating Small
Hydroturbine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313
Toru Shigemitsu, Tomofumi Ikebuchi, Ding Nan, and Takuji
Hosotani
25 Low-Cost Solar Selective Absorbers by Electrodepositing
Technique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327
Kamil M. Yousif and Sayran A. Abdulgafar
26 Effects of Mirror Geometry on the Optical Efficiency
of a Linear Fresnel Reflector (LFR) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337
M. P. G. Sirimanna and J. D. Nixon
27 The Energy Transition in Morocco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349
A. Laaroussi and A. Bouayad
28 E nergetic Performance Optimization of a HO-LiBr Absorption
2
Chiller Powered by Evacuated Tube Solar Collector . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363
Nasiru I. Ibrahim, Fahad A. Al-Sulaiman, and Farid Nasir Ani
29 Design and Construction of a Small Stand- Alone Wind Turbine
Using Scrap Materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379
Ali Hamzeh, Sadeq Hamed, and Zakaria Al-Omari
30 RenovaBio Opportunities and Biofuels Outlook in Brazil . . . . . . . . . 391
Fernando Henriques Salina, Isabela Aroeira de Almeida, and Felipe
Ribeiro Bittencourt
31 Evolution of Photovoltaic-Thermal Hybrid Solar Technology
for the Tropics: A Case Study of Malaysia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401
Mohd Yusof Hj. Othman, Kamaruzzaman Sopian, Mohd Hafidz
Ruslan, Sohif Mat, and Suhaila Abdul Hamid
32 Feasibility Study into Design, Development and Testing of an Indirect
Multi-Rack Solar Dryer for Agricultural Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411
Hossein Mirzaii and Juan Pablo Nojek Barbieri
33 Production of Hydrogen Using Solar- Powered Electrolysis . . . . . . . . 431
D. A. Udousoro and Cliff Dansoh
34 C ity of Sydney Decentralised Renewable Energy Master Plan . . . . . 449
Allan Jones
35 Workshop “Smart Energy Cities and EU GCC Cooperation
Opportunities” Within the WREC 2018 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461
Haris Doukas
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36 A Pricing Method for the Electricity from Renewables
to Be Used After Feed-In Tariffs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465
Yoshihiro Yamamoto
37 Disclosing the Immaterial Resilience of Sustainable Architecture
for a New Renovation Processes of the Inland Mediterranean
Areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471
Antonella Trombadore
38 Application of DC–DC Boost Converter to Photovoltaic
Pumping System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483
Sarah Abdourraziq and Mohamed Amine Abdourraziq
39 The Impact of Dust’s Physical Properties on Photovoltaic Modules
Outcomes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495
Hussein A. Kazem, Miqdam T. Chaichan, and Ali H. A. Alwaeli
40 Performance Simulations of Different Energy Flexibility Sources
in a Building with the Electrical Grid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507
Reino Ruusu, Sunliang Cao, and Ala Hasan
41 Mathematical Modeling of Temperature Effect on Algal Growth
for Biodiesel Application. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517
S. M. Zakir Hossain, Nader Al-Bastaki, Abdulla Mohamed A.
Alnoaimi, Husny Ezuber, Shaikh A. Razzak, and Mohammad M.
Hossain
42 Waste-to-Energy Solutions in Uppsala, Sweden. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529
Mofoluwake Ishola and Cecilia Tilli
43 G eo-Climatic Early-Design Tools and Indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 537
Giacomo Chiesa
44 New Horizons for Renewable Energies in Morocco and Africa . . . . . 551
Hassan Nfaoui and Ali Sayigh
45 Developing Energy Control and Optimisation Methodology
for Built Environment of the Future . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 567
Monday Ikhide, Alex Egaji, and Abdullahi Ahmed
46 Performance Optimization of Concentrated Photovoltaic-Thermal
(CPV-T) System Employing Phase Change Material (PCM)
in Hot Climate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 579
Shaimaa Abdel Baqi, Ahmed Hassan, and Ali Hassan Shah
47 Assessment of Habitants’ Thermal Comfort Through Different
Treatments of Flat Rooftops in Residential Buildings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 595
Dana K. Amro and Suheir M. S. Ammar
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48 Integrating Sustainability and Renewable Energy Systems with
Architecture Form and Urban Design: Greening the Central District
of Irbid, Jordan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609
Anwar Ibrahim and Hikmat Ali
49 Abu Dhabi Schools: Optimization of Building Form for Energy
Efficiency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 623
Meriem Rahmani and Khaled A. Al-Sallal
50 Efficiency of Microstructured Sunlighting Systems
in Different Climatic Zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 633
Helmut F. O. Mueller
51 Hybrid Method to Solve a Two-Stage Stochastic Biofuel
Hub-and-Spoke Network Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 641
Mario Aboytes-Ojeda and Krystel K. Castillo-Villar
52 The Conflict Between Aesthetics and Sustainability:
Empowering Sustainable Architecture with Aesthetics to Enhance
People’s Lifestyle and Sustainable Behavior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 653
Shaden Abusafieh
53 T he Influence of Roof Fenestration on Daylight Distribution
in an Atrium Space Under Tropical Sky Conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 665
J. Yunus, A. Zain-Ahmed, and S. S. Ahmad
54 T echno-Economic Study of a Biogas-Based Polygeneration Plant
for Small Dairy Farms in Central Bolivia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 675
J. Villarroel-Schneider, Brijesh Mainali, J. Martí-Herrero, Anders
Malmquist, Andrew Martin, and Lucio Alejo
55 P erformance Gap and nZEB Compliance of Monitored Passivhaus
in Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland and Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . 689
S. Colclough, V. Costanzo, K. Fabbri, S. Piraccini, P. Griffiths, and
N. J. Hewitt
56 H ow Can Reflected Light Modify Solar Gains in a Compact Urban
District? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 699
Benoit Beckers, Jairo Acuña Paz y Miño, and Claire Lawrence
57 S tudy of Corrosion Effect of Micronal® Phase Change Materials
(PCM) with Different Metal Samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 709
Rebeca Salgado, Hoda Akbari, Maria C. Brown, Isobelle Reid, and
Sarah J. McCormack
58 Metal Coordination Complexes: A Bottom-Up Approach Tailored
Towards Solar Energy Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 719
James Walshe, Pauraic Mc Carron, Hind Ahmed, Sarah Mc
Cormack, and John Doran