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Assessment of the Behavior of FRP-Strengthened RC Slabs Using a Discrete Crack Model
Dias-da-Costa, D.; Graça-e-Costa, Rui; Ranzi, Gianluca; Smith, Scott T.Published 2018-01-01Open AccessArticle -
Coordinated residential energy resource scheduling with vehicle-to-home and high photovoltaic penetrations
Luo, Fengji; Ranzi, Gianluca; Kong, Weicong; Dong, Zhao Yang; Wang, FanPublished 2018-04-30Home Energy Management System (HEMS) provides an effective solution to assist residential users in dealing with the complexity of dynamic electricity prices. This paper proposes a new HEMS in contexts of real-time electricity ...Open AccessArticle -
Expanding the applicability of daytime radiative cooling: Technological developments and limitations
Ulpiani, Giulia; Ranzi, Gianluca; Feng, Jie; Santamouris, MattheosPublished 2021Daytime radiative cooling is regarded as the gold promise of future sustainable building energy systems and a breakthrough in the fight against local climate change. Despite the fervid research interest, most literature ...Open AccessArticle -
Hierarchical Energy Management System for Home Microgrids
Luo, Fengji; Ranzi, Gianluca; Wang, Shu; Dong, Zhao YangPublished 2018-11-30With the spread of distributed energy resources, sensing infra-structure, and automation facilities, modern homes are becoming “home microgrids”. This paper intends to support this trend and proposes a two-stage hierarchical ...Open AccessArticle -
Household Appliance Commitment with Appliance Dependency Modelling
Luo, Fengji; Ranzi, Gianluca; Kolokotroni, MariaPublished 2019-11-25Smart home energy management is one of the main topics in demand side management. In the literature, many Home Energy Management Systems (HEMSs) are designed to optimally schedule the operation of household appliances. ...Open AccessArticle -
Identification of the hygro-thermo-chemical-mechanical model parameters of concrete through inverse analysis
Bocciarelli, Massimiliano; Ranzi, GianlucaPublished 2018-01-01A wide range of parameters is required in input when applying hygro-thermo-chemical-mechanical models to concrete components with the aim of determining the variations over time of temperature, relative humidity and shrinkage ...Open AccessArticle -
An inverse analysis approach for the identification of the hygro-thermo-chemical model parameters of concrete
Bocciarelli, Massimiliano; Ranzi, GianlucaPublished 2018-01-01Hygro-thermo-chemical models provide useful representations of the mechanisms of moisture transport and tem- perature variations that take place in concrete structures and that can influence their durability and service ...Open AccessArticle -
A Multi-Stage Home Energy Management System with Residential Photovoltaic Penetration
Luo, Fengji; Ranzi, Gianluca; Wan, Can; Xu, Zhao; Dong, Zhao YangPublished 2018-09-20Advances in bilateral communication technology foster the im-provement and development of Home Energy Management Sys-tem (HEMS). This paper proposes a new HEMS to optimally schedule home energy resources (HERs) in a high ...Open AccessArticle -
On the cooling potential of elastocaloric devices for building ventilation
Ulpiani, Giulia; Saliari, Maria; Bruederlin, Florian; Kohl, Manfred; Ranzi, Gianluca; Santamouris, MatPublished 2021Refrigerants in vapor-compression systems have a global warming potential thousands of times that of carbon dioxide, yet their spread on the market is unrivalled. Elastocaloric systems, based on solid state cooling, feature ...Open AccessArticle -
On the energy modulation of daytime radiative coolers: A review on infrared emissivity dynamic switch against overcooling
Ulpiani, Giulia; Ranzi, Gianluca; Shah, Kwok Wei; Feng, Jie; Santamouris, MattheosPublished 2020Passive daytime radiative cooling represents one of the boldest answers to tackle the future cooling needs of the built environment and to mitigate urban heat island effects. Recent developments in the field targeted ...Open AccessArticle -
Optimal Home Energy Management System WithDemand Charge Tariff and ApplianceOperational Dependencies
Luo, Fengji; Kong, Weicong; Ranzi, Gianluca; Dong, Zhao YangPublished 2019-05-15Two-way communication facilities and advanced metering infra-structure enable residential buildings to be capable of actively participating in demand side management schemes. This paper proposes a new home energy management ...Open AccessArticle -
Optimization of random silica-polymethylpentene (TPX) radiative coolers towards substantial cooling capacity
Feng, JIe; Gao, Kai; Jiang, Yue; Ulpiani, Giulia; Krajcic, Djordje; Paolini, Riccardo; Ranzi, Gianluca; Santamouris, MattheosPublished 2022In the context of global warming, radiative coolers with high solar reflectance and strong emissivity in the atmospheric window can cool the substrate as well as the ambient air. Silica at its nano or micro-scale being ...Open AccessArticle -
Service Recommendation in Smart Grid: Vision, Technologies, and Applications
Luo, Fengji; Ranzi, Gianluca; Wang, Xibin; Dong, Zhao YangPublished 2017-10-05Driven by the energy crisis and global warming problem, smart grid was proposed in the early 21th century as a solution for the sustainable development of human society. With the two-way communication infrastructure available ...Open AccessArticle -
Social Information Filtering Based Electricity Retail Plan Recommender System for Smart Grid End Users
Luo, Fengji; Ranzi, Gianluca; Wang, Xibin; Dong, Zhao YangPublished 2017-07-31Rapid growth of data in smart grids provides great potentials for the utility to discover knowledge of demand side and design proper Demand Side Management (DSM) schemes to optimize the grid operation. The overloaded data ...Open AccessArticle -
Stochastic residential energy resource scheduling by multi-objective natural aggregation algorithm
Luo, Fengji; Ranzi, Gianluca; Liang, Gaoqi; Dong, Zhao YangPublished 2018-02-01This paper studies the coordinated scheduling of residential energy resources in a smart home environment. The particularity of this paper is to consider the uncertainties of the must-run appliance load demand forecast ...Open AccessArticle -
Upscaling of SMA film-based elastocaloric cooling
Ulpiani, Giulia; Bruederlin, Florian; Weidemann, Raphael; Ranzi, Gianluca; Santamouris, Mat; Kohl, ManfredPublished 2020A new concept of upscaling a shape memory alloy (SMA) film based elastocaloric cooling device is presented by arranging SMA films in parallel to increase the specific cooling capacity at low actuation force, while maintaining ...Open AccessArticle
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