Civil Engineering Reference
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displays several examples concerning the use of PCMs for new buildings, high-
lighting the more appropriate options for refurbishment.
Application of ''highly energy-efficient windows and skylights with silica
nanogel as a strategy in the building refurbishment'' is the subject of ''
Nanogel
Windows
'' .
This new window ''seems to have the largest potential for improving the
thermal performance and daylight in fenestration industry, because of very low
conductivity and density and a good optical transparency''. The chapter includes a
state-of-the-art review of nanogel windows in building applications. It also
includes a discussion on the proprieties of nanogel glazing in terms of thermal,
lighting and acoustic insulation solutions. The ''potential of the nanogel windows
for energy saving in order to achieve a nearly zero-energy building is described
thanks to the results of a case study''.
Efficient Buildings
'
' outlines the basics of electrochromic glazing technology. It
''allow the transmittance of visible light and solar energy to be changed reversibly
and persistently by the use of an electrical signal'', which is an important feature in
energy-efficiency technologies. The chapter discuss device designs and component
materials. Several practical electrochromic glazing designs are introduced with focus
on a foil-type construction applicable as a lamination material between glass panes.
The ''global market potential of solar thermal, photovoltaic (PV) and combined
photovoltaic/thermal (PV/T) technologies in current time and near future'' are the
Building Retrofitting
'
'. The chapter covers ''major features, current status, research
focuses and existing difficulties/barriers related to the various types of PV/T''. It
describes ''research methods, including theoretical analyses and computer simu-
lation, experimental and combined experimental/theoretical investigation, dem-
onstration and feasibility study, as well as economic and environmental analyses,
applied into the PV/T technology were individually discussed, and the achieve-
ment and problems remaining in each research method category''.
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