Blar i TKD - Institutt for bygg- og energiteknikk på forfatter "Rabani, Mehrdad"
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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 (Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments;Volume 44, April 2021, 101020, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021-02-01)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 ... -
Aerodynamic Characteristics Investigation of a Passenger Train Under Crosswind
Rabani, Mehrdad; Faghih khorasani, Ahmadreza; Rabani, Ramin (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)The aim of this study is to investigate experimentally and numerically the effect of the crosswind and wagon numbers to the aerodynamic characteristics as well as fuel consumption of the locomotive Alstom AD43C and some ... -
Building Retrofitting through Coupling of Building Energy Simulation-Optimization Tool with CFD and Daylight Programs
Rabani, Mehrdad; Madessa, Habtamu Bayera; Nord, Natasa (Energies;Volume 14, Issue 8, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-04-14)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 aventilated office
Rabani, Mehrdad; Madessa, Habtamu Bayera; Nord, Natasa (Chapter; Peer reviewed, 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 ... -
Cooling Performance of a New Designed Trombe Wall Integrated with Solar Chimney, Water Spraying System, and Rectangular Thermal Fin Arrays: An Experimental Approach
Rabani, Mehran; Rabani, Mehrdad; Rabani, Ramin; Kalantar, Vali (International Journal of Design & Nature and Ecodynamics;Vol. 15, No. 3, June, 2020, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-06-30)With the shortage of the energy and the improvement of people's environmental requirements, it has received more and more attention to realize building energy efficiency through new energy sources. Trombe wall is a technology ... -
Detailed Assessment of Hybrid Ventilation Control in a Mixed-Mode Building in Cold Climate
Rabani, Mehrdad; Petersen, Arnkell (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)This paper investigates a hybrid ventilation control method for a mixed-mode office landscape in a cold climate, i.e. Norway. The mixed-mode building utilizes a hybrid ventilation system that combines natural ventilation ... -
Heating performance enhancement of a new design trombe wall using rectangular thermal fin arrays: An experimental approach
Rabani, Mehran; Rabani, Mehrdad (Journal of Energy Storage;Volume 24, August 2019, 100796, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-05-31)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 (Building and Environment;Volume 204, 15 October 2021, 108159, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-07-16)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 (Applied Energy;Volume 268, 15 June 2020, 114929, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-04-21)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 (BuildSIM-Nordic 2020: Selected papers;, Conference object, 2020)This paper presents a sensitivity analysis followed by an optimization to improve the performance of a ground source heat pump (GSHP) system for an office building located in Norway, for Oslo, Stavanger, and Tromsø climatic ... -
Passive cooling performance of a test room equipped with normal and new designed Trombe walls: A numerical approach
Rabani, Mehran; Rabani, Mehrdad; Kalantar, Vali (Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments;Volume 33, June, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-03-29)This paper is dedicated to numerically appraise the passive cooling performance of the new designed and normal Trombe walls combined with solar chimney and water spraying system (WSS) in a test room under Yazd (Iran) desert ... -
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 (E3S Web of Conferences;Volume 111 (2019), 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 (Building and Environment;Volume 156, June 2019, Pages 123-136, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-04-12)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 ... -
Recent progress in the application of energy technologies in Large-Scale building Blocks: A State-of-the-Art review
Madessa, Habtamu Bayera; Shakerin, Mohammad; Helberg Reinskau, Espen; Rabani, Mehrdad (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)The transition to clean and sustainable energy systems in the building sector is vital to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions. In this regard, shifting the focus from single buildings to clusters of buildings, such as ... -
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 ... -
A systematic review of retrofitting tools for residential buildings
Gonzalez Caceres, Alex; Rabani, Mehrdad; Martinez, P. A. (IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science;294 (2019) 012035, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Retrofitting of existing buildings offers significant opportunities to reduce global energy use and greenhouse gas emissions. Therefore, it is considered as one of the main approaches to achieve sustainability in the ...