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Building energy consumption related with user behavior

Liolis, Michael (2016-10-11)

Η ανθρωπότητα κατά καιρούς αντιμετώπιζε διάφορα βασικά προβλήματα τα οποία απορρέουν ως αποτέλεσμα του σύγχρονου τρόπου ζωής. Η μόλυνση είναι ένα από τα βασικά προβλήματα το οποίο απασχολεί διάφορα τμήματα των κοινωνιών ...

Energy consumption and thermal comfort in office building

Bakalis, Panagiotis (Ανοικτό Πανεπιστήμιο Κύπρου, 2017-06)

The existence of buildings, whether these serve as spaces to live in or as working places, aim to assists the human activity, as well as it provides protection from exterior weather conditions. However, very often in the ...

Energy assessment of thermal indoor conditions in office buildings.

Kanellos, Konstantinos (Ανοικτό Πανεπιστήμιο Κύπρου, 2017-06)

This Paper is the second part of the Master Thesis under the Topic Title “Energy Assessment of Thermal Indoor Conditions in Office Buildings”. In the first part, the energy consumption of the building sector, and especially ...

The impact of the implementation of the European energy performance of buildings directive on the European building stock: The case of the Cyprus land development corporation

Polycarpou, Kyriacos (Ανοικτό Πανεπιστήμιο Κύπρου, 2018-06)

The necessity of reducing the global energy consumption led the European Union to the introduction of several relative policies and directives, with the objective of a gradual improvement of the energy performance of ...

Investigation of the energy performance of school buildings

Arvaniti, Virginia (Ανοικτό Πανεπιστήμιο Κύπρου, 2018-09)

Aim of this project is the investigation of the energy performance of four school buildings at Anatolia College, which is a Private School in Thessaloniki, Greece in the C Climatic Zone. For this purpose we collected data ...

Energy upgrade of school buildings

Paraskevas, Thomas (Ανοικτό Πανεπιστήμιο Κύπρου, 2018-12)

The greenhouse effect has been a major contributor to the formation of the European Union legislation concerning Energy technology systems and the use of more efficient and “greener” systems in the buildings sector. The ...

Seawater desalination with renewable energy sources

Panou, Alexia (Ανοικτό Πανεπιστήμιο Κύπρου, 2018-12)

The aim of this Capstone project is to study desalination technologies and the possibility to combine them with Renewable Energy Sources. The first part of the project is a literature review of the most advanced desalination ...

Utilizing near zero energy buildings in different locations in Greece with photovoltaics systems.

Σταυρόπουλος, Γεώργιος (Ανοικτό Πανεπιστήμιο Κύπρου, 2019-05)

The main axes of the dissertation will be the case study of Near Zero Buildings using modern techniques, as well as photovoltaic systems for energy production and self-consumption with the aim of reducing the energy ...

Solar energy in industrial processes

Filippou, Anastasia (Ανοικτό Πανεπιστήμιο Κύπρου, 2019-05)

This dissertation is about solar systems used in industrial processes. In our case, the process that has been studied is the yogurt maturation. This industrial process requires temperatures at 45 οC. The purpose of the ...

Dynamic modelling of seasonal solar thermal energy storage

Koumides, Phivos (Ανοικτό Πανεπιστήμιο Κύπρου, 2019-11)

Our world is on the verge of a new era where fossil fuels are no longer viable. The rapidly emerging renewable energy sources, such as solar and wind, are intermittent in nature, where supply does not coincide with demand. ...

Stirling engines for low temperature solar thermal electric power generation.

Διαβάτης, Θεόδωρος (Ανοικτό Πανεπιστήμιο Κύπρου, 2019-12)

The subject of this master thesis is the design and development of a Stirling engine for low temperature solar thermal electric power generation. The purpose of the system is to incorporate low-cost materials and simple ...

Numerical application for the calculation of thermal transmittance of building elements.

Ευθυμίου, Ελένη (Ανοικτό Πανεπιστήμιο Κύπρου, 2019-12)

In this master thesis, six building elements, three external walls, two roofs and a column consisting of a number of layers of different materials were studied. All the building elements were studied as plane surfaces ...

Energy management practices in office buildings development of an energy management system for a small medium enterprise.

Λουκά, Γιώργος (Ανοικτό Πανεπιστήμιο Κύπρου, 2020-04)

Energy Management constitutes one of the main areas of sustainable energy practices. Especially in the building sector, energy management constitutes a significant operation which may assist an organization, in this case ...

Energy performance and user’s behavior for residential buildings

Σκουφός, Πέτρος (Ανοικτό Πανεπιστήμιο Κύπρου, 2020-05)

Occupant or user behavior is known to be one of the main factors of uncertainty in the prediction of building energy use. Extended literature reviews linked the large performance gaps between residential buildings with the ...

Stirling engines for low-temperature solar-thermal-electric power generation.

Ιωάννου, Γιάννος (Ανοικτό Πανεπιστήμιο Κύπρου, 2020-05)

Η εποχή των ορυκτών καυσίμων έδωσε την ευκαιρία για μεγάλες τεχνολογικές εξελίξεις που «οδήγησαν» στη λεγόμενη εποχή της βιομηχανικής επανάστασης αλλάζοντας τον τρόπο ζωής των ανθρώπων ριζικά. Ένα από τα μειονεκτήματα που ...

Reducing the ecological and the energy footprint in a company through redesigning the energy resource (renewable energy sources), eco-design (green buildings for energy saving) and improvement of production/commercial processes to reduce energy consumption and waste.

Ταργατζάκης, Σπυρίδων (Ανοικτό Πανεπιστήμιο Κύπρου, 2020-05)

Over the last decades, in both global and pan-European levels, there has been an unprecedented increase in the interest regarding the unwanted greenhouse gas emissions due to their harmful nature. Energy has always been ...