Browsing NTNU Open by Author "Rabani, Mehrdad"
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A state-of-art review of retrofit interventions in buildings towards nearly zero energy level
Rabani, Mehrdad; Madessa, Habtamu Bayera; Nord, Natasa (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Unmistakably, buildings retrofitting brings the possibilities to reduce energy use and greenhouse gas emissions. However, selecting specific retrofit strategies is complex and requires careful planning. There are already ... -
Achieving zero-energy building performance with thermal and visual comfort enhancement through optimization of fenestration, envelope, shading device, and energy supply system
Rabani, Mehrdad; Madessa, Habtamu Bayera; Nord, Natasa (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Building retrofitting towards nearly zero energy building (nZEB) with comfortable visual and thermal conditions, requires a comprehensive parametric analysis of building retrofit measures. This paper presented an optimization ... -
Active supply diffuser application in all-air heating systems
Rabani, Mehrdad; Madessa, Habtamu Bayera; Nord, Natasa (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Substantial reductions in energy use can be achieved by promoting low energy building technologies such as all-air systems. There is an idea that integrating active supply diffuser with all-air systems can potentially ... -
Building Retrofitting through Coupling of Building Energy Simulation-Optimization Tool with CFD and Daylight Programs
Rabani, Mehrdad; Madessa, Habtamu Bayera; Nord, Natasa (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Simultaneous satisfaction of both thermal and visual comfort in buildings may be a challenging task. Therefore, this paper suggests a comprehensive framework for the building energy optimization process integrating ... -
CFD study on the effect of Archimedes number and heating rate on the thermal stratification of a ventilated office
Rabani, Mehrdad; Madessa, Habtamu Bayera; Nord, Natasa (Chapter, 2018)This paper dealt with simulating a typical occupied office equipped with displacement ventilation using CFD method. The STAR-CCM+ commercial software was employed for performing the simulations in order to analyze the trend ... -
Heating performance enhancement of a new design trombe wall using rectangular thermal fin arrays: An experimental approach
Rabani, Mehran; Rabani, Mehrdad (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)It has been nowadays recognized that addressing energy use in buildings can reduce the fossil fuels usage and CO2 emission. Trombe wall is a widely applicable passive solar design option that can significantly reduce the ... -
Life cycle analysis of GHG emissions from the building retrofitting: The case of a Norwegian office building
Rabani, Mehrdad; Madessa, Habtamu Bayera; Ljungström, Malin; Aamodt, Lene; Løvvold, Sandra; Nord, Natasa (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Through a systematic study, this paper conducted a life cycle assessment (LCA) consisting of evaluation of both embodied and operational emissions of different building retrofitting scenarios for a typical office building, ... -
Minimizing delivered energy and life cycle cost using Graphical script: An office building retrofitting case
Rabani, Mehrdad; Madessa, Habtamu Bayera; Mohseni, Omid; Nord, Natasa (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Selecting the most cost-effective retrofit interventions to achieve a significant reduction of energy use and CO2 emissions in the building sectors is challenging, because a large number of possible retrofitting options ... -
Parametric analysis of ground source heat pump system for heating of office buildings in Nordic climate
Rabani, Mehrdad; Madessa, Habtamu Bayera; Torgersen, Jørgen; Nord, Natasa (Chapter, 2020) -
Performance analysis of an active diffuser in mixing ventilation for cell office by using numerical approach
Rabani, Mehrdad; Madessa, Habtamu Bayera; Nord, Natasa; Schild, Peter (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Energy efficiency in buildings is nowadays considered as an essential step to reduce CO2 emissions and energy utilization. At the same time, new technologies such as building space heating using active air heating has ... -
Performance assessment of all-air heating in an office cubicle equipped with an active supply diffuser in a cold climate
Rabani, Mehrdad; Madessa, Habtamu Bayera; Nord, Natasa; Schild, Peter; Mysen, Mads (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Low-temperature space heating systems play a prominent role in improving the indoor air quality (IAQ) and thermal comfort of energy efficient buildings in cold-climate countries such as Norway. All-air heating (AAH) systems ... -
Retrofitting of Norwegian Office Buildings towards Nearly Zero Energy-Technical, Environmental, and Economic Aspects
Rabani, Mehrdad (Doctoral theses at NTNU;2021:403, Doctoral thesis, 2021)The increasing proportion of energy use for buildings in urban environments has necessitated energy efficiency and advancement of the sustainable transformation of building stock towards the zero energy/emission level. In ...