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Hoverspill: a new amphibious vehicle for responding in difficult-to-access sites
Oil spill experience often shows that response activities are hampered due to the
absence of operative autonomous support capable of reaching particular sites or operate in
safe and efficient conditions in areas such as saltmarshes, mudflats, river banks, cliff
bottoms… This is the purpose of the so-called FP7 Hoverspill project (www.hoverspill.eu), a
3-year European project that recently reached completion: to design and build a small-size
amphibious vehicle designed to ensure rapid oil spill response. The result is an air-cushion
vehicle (ACV), known as Hoverspill, based on the innovative MACP (Multipurpose Air
Cushion Platform) developed by Hovertech and SOA. It is a completely amphibious vehicle
capable of working on land and on water, usable as a pontoon in floating conditions. Its
compactness makes it easy to transport by road. The project also included the design and
building of a highly effective integrated O/W Turbylec separator developed by YLEC. Spill
response equipment will be loaded on-board based on a modular concept enabling the vehicle
to carry out specific tasks with just the required equipmen
Evaluation of a New System Combining Wood-Burning Stove, Flue Gas Heat Exchanger and Mechanical Ventilation with Heat Recovery in Highly-Insulated Houses
The performance of an innovative flue gas heat exchanger (FGHE) located at the exit of a wood-burning stove (log or pellet) to pre-heat ventilation air has been assessed for highly insulated detached houses. For this purpose, transient thermal simulations (TRNSYS + TRNFlow) were carried out on a Norwegian house typology (passive house standard NS3700) and a French house typology (building regulation RT2012) – both equipped with mechanical ventilation systems with heat recovery (MVHR). Seven different climates were considered ranging from mixed (Nice, France) to subarctic conditions (Karasjok, Norway) in order to evaluate the impact of the system in terms of energy use for space-heating and thermal comfort for a broad range of operating conditions. The tested system allowed an improvement of the thermal comfort in the bedrooms furthest away from the stove: up to 7.6 °C of the 5th percentile of the operative temperature (Top 5%) for France and up to 9.5 °C for Norway, compared to the houses without the system. Furthermore, energy savings of up to 19% over the space-heating season were reported, depending on the type of wood-burning stove (i.e. log or pellet) and control used during operation.© 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. This is the authors' accepted and refereed manuscript to the article. Released with a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives License. The final publication is available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2019.04.103acceptedVersio
Evaluation of a New System Combining Wood-Burning Stove, Flue Gas Heat Exchanger and Mechanical Ventilation with Heat Recovery in Highly-Insulated Houses
The performance of an innovative flue gas heat exchanger (FGHE) located at the exit of a wood-burning stove (log or pellet) to pre-heat ventilation air has been assessed for highly insulated detached houses. For this purpose, transient thermal simulations (TRNSYS + TRNFlow) were carried out on a Norwegian house typology (passive house standard NS3700) and a French house typology (building regulation RT2012) – both equipped with mechanical ventilation systems with heat recovery (MVHR). Seven different climates were considered ranging from mixed (Nice, France) to subarctic conditions (Karasjok, Norway) in order to evaluate the impact of the system in terms of energy use for space-heating and thermal comfort for a broad range of operating conditions. The tested system allowed an improvement of the thermal comfort in the bedrooms furthest away from the stove: up to 7.6 °C of the 5th percentile of the operative temperature (Top 5%) for France and up to 9.5 °C for Norway, compared to the houses without the system. Furthermore, energy savings of up to 19% over the space-heating season were reported, depending on the type of wood-burning stove (i.e. log or pellet) and control used during operation