117 research outputs found
Analysis of energy management for heating, ventilating and air-conditioning systems
AbstractIn the office buildings, large energy is consumed due to poor thermal performance and low efficiencies of HVAC systems. A cooling load calculation is a basis for the design of building cooling systems. The current design methods are usually based on deterministic cooling loads, which are obtained by using design parameters. However, these parameters contain uncertainties, and they will be different from that used in the design calculation when the cooling system is put in use. The actual cooling load profile will deviate from that predicted in design. A modified bin method was used in this paper to optimize the energy efficiency ratio (EER). A design optimization method is proposed by considering uncertainties related to the cooling load calculation. Impacts caused by the uncertainties of seven factors are considered, including the outdoor weather conditions and internal heat sources. The cooling load distribution is analyzed. Comparison between the modified bin method and CLTD/SCL/CLF method is also conducted. With the distributions of their energy consumption, decision makers can select the optimal configuration based on quantified confidence. According to the economic benefits and energy efficiency ratio, using modified bin method will increase the overall energy efficiency ratio by 45.57%
Performance evaluation for solar liquid desiccant air dehumidification system
AbstractIn this paper, a solar liquid desiccant air conditioning (SLDAC) system has been studied. The effect of changing evacuated tube collector area on the performance of the SLDAC system was fulfillment. This inquest was done over all a year in Borg Al-Arab city located in the Northern region of Egypt. Meteorological data, such as hourly average solar radiations and temperatures, were needed to achieve this research. The hourly cooling loads were determined by using Hourly Analysis Program (HAP) 4.7. These loads are wall, illumination, people, and equipment loads. Then, the hourly differences of different parameters such as amount of water absorbed in conditioner, amount of water desorbed in regenerator, hot water temperature and coefficient of the performance were calculated.In addition, the maximum solar thermal energy was determined to meet the regeneration demand according to the hourly average solar radiation data. For 220m2 evacuated tube collector area, the maximum required heat energy is obtained as 38,286kWh on December, while using solar energy, will save energy by 30.28% annual value
RSDiff: Remote Sensing Image Generation from Text Using Diffusion Model
Satellite imagery generation and super-resolution are pivotal tasks in remote
sensing, demanding high-quality, detailed images for accurate analysis and
decision-making. In this paper, we propose an innovative and lightweight
approach that employs two-stage diffusion models to gradually generate
high-resolution Satellite images purely based on text prompts. Our innovative
pipeline comprises two interconnected diffusion models: a Low-Resolution
Generation Diffusion Model (LR-GDM) that generates low-resolution images from
text and a Super-Resolution Diffusion Model (SRDM) conditionally produced. The
LR-GDM effectively synthesizes low-resolution by (computing the correlations of
the text embedding and the image embedding in a shared latent space), capturing
the essential content and layout of the desired scenes. Subsequently, the SRDM
takes the generated low-resolution image and its corresponding text prompts and
efficiently produces the high-resolution counterparts, infusing fine-grained
spatial details and enhancing visual fidelity. Experiments are conducted on the
commonly used dataset, Remote Sensing Image Captioning Dataset (RSICD). Our
results demonstrate that our approach outperforms existing state-of-the-art
(SoTA) models in generating satellite images with realistic geographical
features, weather conditions, and land structures while achieving remarkable
super-resolution results for increased spatial precision
Reduced erbium-doped ceria nanoparticles: one nano-host applicable for simultaneous optical down- and up-conversions
This paper introduces a new synthesis procedure to form erbium-doped ceria nanoparticles (EDC NPs) that can act as an optical medium for both up-conversion and down-conversion in the same time. This synthesis process results qualitatively in a high concentration of Ce(3+) ions required to obtain high fluorescence efficiency in the down-conversion process. Simultaneously, the synthesized nanoparticles contain the molecular energy levels of erbium that are required for up-conversion. Therefore, the synthesized EDC NPs can emit visible light when excited with either UV or IR photons. This opens new opportunities for applications where emission of light via both up- and down-conversions from a single nanomaterial is desired such as solar cells and bio-imaging
Eucalyptus
In Egypt, the River Red Gum (Eucalyptus camaldulensis) is a well-known tree and is highly appreciated by the rural and urban dwellers. The role of Eucalyptus trees in the ecology of Cryptococcus neoformans is documented worldwide. The aim of this survey was to show the prevalence of C. neoformans during the flowering season of E. camaldulensis at the Delta region in Egypt. Three hundred and eleven samples out of two hundred Eucalyptus trees, including leaves, flowers, and woody trunks, were collected from four governorates in the Delta region. Thirteen isolates of C. neoformans were recovered from Eucalyptus tree samples (4.2%). Molecular identification of C. neoformans was done by capsular gene specific primer CAP64 and serotype identification was done depending on LAC1 gene. This study represents an update on the ecology of C. neoformans associated with Eucalyptus tree in Egyptian environment
STG-MTL: Scalable Task Grouping for Multi-Task Learning Using Data Map
Multi-Task Learning (MTL) is a powerful technique that has gained popularity
due to its performance improvement over traditional Single-Task Learning (STL).
However, MTL is often challenging because there is an exponential number of
possible task groupings, which can make it difficult to choose the best one,
and some groupings might produce performance degradation due to negative
interference between tasks. Furthermore, existing solutions are severely
suffering from scalability issues, limiting any practical application. In our
paper, we propose a new data-driven method that addresses these challenges and
provides a scalable and modular solution for classification task grouping based
on hand-crafted features, specifically Data Maps, which capture the training
behavior for each classification task during the MTL training. We experiment
with the method demonstrating its effectiveness, even on an unprecedented
number of tasks (up to 100).Comment: Accepted submission to DMLR workshop @ ICML 2
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