Additionally, in the context of manufacturing technologies of steel, studies such as [110] report that for one ton of steel, the Basic Oxygen Furnace (BOF) technology results in an overall energy consumption of 2.8 times higher than the Electric Arc Furnace (EAF) and that its material ...
Our test house has a dual-fuel HVAC system where a heat pump is used alongside a forced air gas furnace. The heat pump cools the house in summer and heats the house in winter. The gas furnace is used, but only when it is too cold outside for the heat pump to operate effectively. ...
This includes the electricity used to run a heat pump during the heating cycle, furnace, and radiant floor electricity and thermal energy. These homes utilize thermal energy and electrical energy for the radiant floor and electrical energy for the furnace and heat pump. All electricity used to ...
The mixed neural network approach developed in order to forecast the residential electricity consumption based on sensors recorded data, is synthesized in the block diagram, in which we have depicted the five steps of the first stage, the four steps of the second one, the four steps of the ...
At the bottom of the foundation, the soil contains blast furnace ash, which is a byproduct of steel and can be used as anti‐freeze soil padding. To keep the above‐ground living space comfortable, the...