Outputs (14)

Improving Thermal Performance of Buildings using Smart Inspections and Peltier-driven Heat Recovery (2024)
Thesis
Shariq, M. H. (2024). Improving Thermal Performance of Buildings using Smart Inspections and Peltier-driven Heat Recovery [Doctoral thesis, University of Hull]. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4860398

Buildings account for 40% of overall carbon emissions in the UK which have significant impacts on the environment. The overconsumption of energy for heating and cooling is primarily caused by thermal leakages due to building defects. Existing techniq... Read More about Improving Thermal Performance of Buildings using Smart Inspections and Peltier-driven Heat Recovery.

Methods used for handling and quantifying model uncertainty of artificial neural network models for air pollution forecasting (2022)
Journal Article
Cabaneros, S. M., & Hughes, B. (2022). Methods used for handling and quantifying model uncertainty of artificial neural network models for air pollution forecasting. Environmental modelling & software : with environment data news, 158, 105529. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2022.105529

The use of data-driven techniques such as artificial neural network (ANN) models for outdoor air pollution forecasting has been popular in the past two decades. However, research activity on the uncertainty surrounding the development of ANN models h... Read More about Methods used for handling and quantifying model uncertainty of artificial neural network models for air pollution forecasting.

Real-time pixel-level fusion of colour and thermal (RGB-T) imagery via extrinsic optical alignment: Scope for automating building inspections’, (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Shariq, H., & Hughes, B. R. (2022). Real-time pixel-level fusion of colour and thermal (RGB-T) imagery via extrinsic optical alignment: Scope for automating building inspections’,. Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Evolving Cities. https://doi.org/10.55066/proc-icec.2021.30

Building inspections and energy surveys are performed to detect and diagnose building defects, however, existing inspection methods are highly labour intensive, time consuming, and not suitable for large-scale audits. This work presents a thermal-col... Read More about Real-time pixel-level fusion of colour and thermal (RGB-T) imagery via extrinsic optical alignment: Scope for automating building inspections’,.

Low power energy harvesting systems: State of the art and future challenges (2021)
Journal Article
Calautit, K., Nasir, D. S. N. M., & Hughes, B. R. (2021). Low power energy harvesting systems: State of the art and future challenges. Renewable & sustainable energy reviews, 147, 111230. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2021.111230

Recent works on self-charging power technologies mainly focused on the low energy harvesting component, while its integration with the energy storage system was usually not further evaluated or discussed. This was addressed in the present work by pro... Read More about Low power energy harvesting systems: State of the art and future challenges.

Urban road and pavement solar collector system for heat island mitigation: Assessing the beneficial impact on outdoor temperature (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Nasir, S. D., Xu, W., Vital, B., Pantua, C., Zhou, B., Calautit, J., & Hughes, B. (2020). Urban road and pavement solar collector system for heat island mitigation: Assessing the beneficial impact on outdoor temperature. IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 463(1), 012038. https://doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/463/1/012038

Road renewable energy system has raised much attention from both industrial and academic research on how abundant solar radiation absorbed by road surfaces can be collected while reducing the impact of high surface temperature towards urban environme... Read More about Urban road and pavement solar collector system for heat island mitigation: Assessing the beneficial impact on outdoor temperature.

Analysis of mechanical properties for two different structures of photovoltaic pavement unit block (2019)
Journal Article
Zhou, B., Pei, J., Hughes, B. R., Nasir, D. S., & Zhang, J. (2020). Analysis of mechanical properties for two different structures of photovoltaic pavement unit block. Construction and Building Materials, 239, 117864. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2019.117864

Recently, photovoltaic (PV) pavement has widely attracted attention as an alternative to provide renewable energy. Research which focuses on the mechanical properties of a PV pavement is still at an early stage of exploration. This study adopted two... Read More about Analysis of mechanical properties for two different structures of photovoltaic pavement unit block.

Neutral thermal sensation or dynamic thermal comfort? Numerical and field test analysis of a thermal chair (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Shahzad, S., Calautit, J. K., Aquino, A. I., Nasir, D. S., & Hughes, B. R. (2017). Neutral thermal sensation or dynamic thermal comfort? Numerical and field test analysis of a thermal chair. Energy procedia, 142, 2189-2194. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2017.12.587

Neutral thermal sensation is considered as the measure of thermal comfort in research, as when participants report feeling neutral regarding the thermal environment, they are considered as thermally comfortable. This is taken for granted, and althoug... Read More about Neutral thermal sensation or dynamic thermal comfort? Numerical and field test analysis of a thermal chair.

A user-controlled thermal chair for an open plan workplace: CFD and field studies of thermal comfort performance (2017)
Journal Article
Shahzad, S., Calautit, J. K., Aquino, A. I., Nasir, D. S. N. M., & Hughes, B. R. (2017). A user-controlled thermal chair for an open plan workplace: CFD and field studies of thermal comfort performance. Applied energy, 207, 283-293. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2017.05.118

This study aims to improve user comfort and satisfaction regarding the thermal environment in the open plan office, which is a current challenge in the workplace addressed by limited research. The main difficulty in an open plan setting is that chang... Read More about A user-controlled thermal chair for an open plan workplace: CFD and field studies of thermal comfort performance.

Computational and Field Test Analysis of Thermal Comfort Performance of User-controlled Thermal Department in an Open Plan Office (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Shahzad, S., Hughes, B., Calautit, J. K., & Nasir, D. S. N. M. (2017). Computational and Field Test Analysis of Thermal Comfort Performance of User-controlled Thermal Department in an Open Plan Office. Energy procedia, 105, 2635-2640. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2017.03.761

In this study, a thermal Department prototype was developed that allowed personal control over the temperature settings of the back-rest and the seat. Limited research focuses on different methods to provide individual user control over the thermal e... Read More about Computational and Field Test Analysis of Thermal Comfort Performance of User-controlled Thermal Department in an Open Plan Office.

Thermal Comfort and Indoor air Quality Analysis of a Low-energy Cooling Windcatcher (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Calautit, J. K., Aquino, A. I., Shahzad, S., Nasir, D. S. N. M., & Hughes, B. R. (2017). Thermal Comfort and Indoor air Quality Analysis of a Low-energy Cooling Windcatcher. Energy procedia, 105, 2865-2870. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2017.03.634

The aim of this work was to investigate the performance of a roof-mounted cooling windcatcher integrated with heat pipes using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and field test analysis. The windcatcher model was incorporated to a 5m x 5m x3 m test r... Read More about Thermal Comfort and Indoor air Quality Analysis of a Low-energy Cooling Windcatcher.