World-wide water scarcity, especially in the developing world, indicates a pressing need to develop inexpensive, decentralized small-scale desalination technologies which use renewable resources of energy. Major desalination ...

In this study, the thermal efficiency of volumetric solar collector is experimentally compared using diamond nanofluid as the working fluid. First, the dispersion stability of prepared nanofluids is considered with zeta ...

This paper presents the effect of ambient temperature and relative humidity on a monocrystalline solar module installed on the rooftop tilted with an angle of 15˚ facing South. The output current, and voltage for the ...

Trobme wall is a system to provide passive solar heating in a clean way. Trombe wall combined with a dynamic system like photovoltaic (PV) system to produce heat and electricity simultaneously. It consists of a thick wall, ...

Contemporary building  sector  in  Iran  is  responsible  for  approximately  40%  of  ever-increasing  energy  consumption. Considering the principles of Iranian architecture in terms of adaptability with the climate as ...

Nowadays, the acceleration of environmental problems as much as possible and the preservation of the environment for this reason become an increasing concern; we have required architects to use different design alternatives ...

Using renewable energy, particularly solar radiation is considered today as one of the most important energy resources all over the world. So that, the ratio of received solar radiation at a certain flat surface has been ...

Atrium is a semi-open space area that is located within a building. It usually includes a large space that was a distinctive part of ancient Roman dwellings are with providing natural daylight and organic ventilation to ...