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Modeling Of Buildings With Electrochromic Windows And Thermochromic Roofs, Hua-Ting Kao
Modeling Of Buildings With Electrochromic Windows And Thermochromic Roofs, Hua-Ting Kao
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Air conditioning and heating have increased substantially during the past two decades. According to a survey, buildings consume about 73% of the total electricity in the United States, accounting for 41% of all other energy in the world. At the same time, building skin technologies are constantly improving. Electrochromic and thermochromic are two exciting new technologies that can help reduce the energy consumption of a building. The purpose of this work is to increase our understanding of how much the use of electrochromic (EC) and thermochromic (TC) technologies can reduce the energy consumption of residential and commercial buildings in two …
Encapsulation Of Organic Thermochromic Materials With Silicon Dioxide, Mingyang Huang
Encapsulation Of Organic Thermochromic Materials With Silicon Dioxide, Mingyang Huang
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Currently, functional materials are attracting considerable attention in the effort to solve some tough challenges the world is faced with. Thermochromic (TC) materials have the potential to make buildings more energy efficient because of their ability to change color (i.e black to white) at specific temperatures. Using this property, TC materials can reflect solar radiation in the summer, to keep a building cool during daytime hours, and absorb solar radiation in the winter to keep the building warm when their color is dark. Very often, to increase their durability, thermochromic materials are encapsulated. In this work, a new process has …