TY  - RPRT
A1  - Feldmann, M.
A1  - Kuhnhenne, M.
A1  - Döring, Bernd
A1  - Pyschny, D.
A1  - Lawson, R.M.
A1  - Chuter, R.D.
A1  - Boudjabeur, S.
A1  - Lecomte-Labory, F.
A1  - Airaksinen, M.
A1  - Heikkinen, J.
A1  - Laamanen, J.
A1  - Albart, P.
A1  - D'Haeyer, R.
A1  - Chica, J.A.
A1  - Maseda, J.M.
A1  - Amundarain, A.
A1  - Rips, M.O.
A1  - Nuñez, J.A.
A1  - Macías, O.
A1  - Beguin, P.
A1  - Ben Larbi, A.
T1  - Energy and thermal improvements for construction in steel (ETHICS) - EUR 26010
N2  - ETHICS is concerned with evaluating, measuring and making improvements in the thermal and energy performance of steel-clad and steel-framed buildings. It addresses basic building physics performance at a laboratory and full-scale level, and the preparation of design guidance for commercial, industrial and residential buildings. It includes the development of design tools to assist users in assessing whole-building performance, and calibrates these tools against whole-building measurements, which will be obtained from this research. Opportunities for renewable energy and other energy-saving features will be assessed. This project focuses on objectives that are of particular interest for the design of new steel constructions regarding energy efficiency. ETHICS investigates the as-built performance by on-site tests regarding air tightness and heat transfer properties of the building envelope and by monitoring the energy consumption and thermal comfort of selected up-to-date steel buildings. As energy efficiency is a key requirement for design and construction of buildings in the future, this project provides well-founded scientific data, which prove the high energy performance of current steel constructions and work out details for further improvements to maintain and extend the position of steel products in the construction sector.
KW  - steel
KW  - metal structure
KW  - building technique
KW  - energy efficiency
KW  - thermal insulation
KW  - industrial research
KW  - research report
Y1  - 2013
SN  - 978-92-79-30789-8
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.2777/17106
SN  - 1831-9424
PB  - Publications Office of the European Union
CY  - Luxembourg
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Altherr, Lena
A1  - Ederer, Thorsten
A1  - Pöttgen, Philipp
A1  - Lorenz, Ulf
A1  - Pelz, Peter F.
ED  - Pelz, Peter F.
ED  - Groche, Peter
T1  - Multicriterial optimization of technical systems considering multiple load and availability scenarios
JF  - Applied Mechanics and Materials
N2  - Cheap does not imply cost-effective -- this is rule number one of zeitgeisty system design. The initial investment accounts only for a small portion of the lifecycle costs of a technical system. In fluid systems, about ninety percent of the total costs are caused by other factors like power consumption and maintenance. With modern optimization methods, it is already possible to plan an optimal technical system considering multiple objectives. In this paper, we focus on an often neglected contribution to the lifecycle costs: downtime costs due to spontaneous failures. Consequently, availability becomes an issue.
KW  - sustainability
KW  - availability
KW  - energy efficiency
KW  - mixed-integer linear programming
KW  - system synthesis
Y1  - 2015
SN  - 1660-9336
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.807.247
VL  - 807
SP  - 247
EP  - 256
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Cheenakula, Dheeraja
A1  - Griebel, Kai
A1  - Montag, David
A1  - Grömping, Markus
ED  - Huang, Xiaowu
T1  - Concept development of a mainstream deammonification and comparison with conventional process in terms of energy, performance and economical construction perspectives
JF  - Frontiers in Microbiology
N2  - Deammonification for nitrogen removal in municipal wastewater in temperate and cold climate zones is currently limited to the side stream of municipal wastewater treatment plants (MWWTP). This study developed a conceptual model of a mainstream deammonification plant, designed for 30,000 P.E., considering possible solutions corresponding to the challenging mainstream conditions in Germany. In addition, the energy-saving potential, nitrogen elimination performance and construction-related costs of mainstream deammonification were compared to a conventional plant model, having a single-stage activated sludge process with upstream denitrification. The results revealed that an additional treatment step by combining chemical precipitation and ultra-fine screening is advantageous prior the mainstream deammonification. Hereby chemical oxygen demand (COD) can be reduced by 80% so that the COD:N ratio can be reduced from 12 to 2.5. Laboratory experiments testing mainstream conditions of temperature (8–20°C), pH (6–9) and COD:N ratio (1–6) showed an achievable volumetric nitrogen removal rate (VNRR) of at least 50 gN/(m3∙d) for various deammonifying sludges from side stream deammonification systems in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, where m3 denotes reactor volume. Assuming a retained Norganic content of 0.0035 kgNorg./(P.E.∙d) from the daily loads of N at carbon removal stage and a VNRR of 50 gN/(m3∙d) under mainstream conditions, a resident-specific reactor volume of 0.115 m3/(P.E.) is required for mainstream deammonification. This is in the same order of magnitude as the conventional activated sludge process, i.e., 0.173 m3/(P.E.) for an MWWTP of size class of 4. The conventional plant model yielded a total specific electricity demand of 35 kWh/(P.E.∙a) for the operation of the whole MWWTP and an energy recovery potential of 15.8 kWh/(P.E.∙a) through anaerobic digestion. In contrast, the developed mainstream deammonification model plant would require only a 21.5 kWh/(P.E.∙a) energy demand and result in 24 kWh/(P.E.∙a) energy recovery potential, enabling the mainstream deammonification model plant to be self-sufficient. The retrofitting costs for the implementation of mainstream deammonification in existing conventional MWWTPs are nearly negligible as the existing units like activated sludge reactors, aerators and monitoring technology are reusable. However, the mainstream deammonification must meet the performance requirement of VNRR of about 50 gN/(m3∙d) in this case.
KW  - anammox
KW  - energy efficiency
KW  - mainstream deammonification
KW  - nitrogen elimination
KW  - wastewater
Y1  - 2023
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2023.1155235
SN  - 1664-302X
VL  - 14
IS  - 11155235
SP  - 1
EP  - 15
PB  - Frontiers
ER  -