Jingxiao Han¹, Chuanzhao Zhang², Lu Wang^3,*, Zengjun Chang¹, Qing Zhao¹, Ying Shi⁴, Jiarui Wu⁵, Xiangfei Kong³

Energy Engineering, Vol.120, No.9, pp. 1991-2011, 2023, DOI:10.32604/ee.2023.029749

Abstract For heating systems based on electricity storage coupled with solar energy and an air source heat pump (ECSA), choosing the appropriate combination of heat sources according to local conditions is the key to improving economic efficiency. In this paper, four cities in three climatic regions in China were selected, namely Nanjing in the hot summer and cold winter region, Tianjin in the cold region, Shenyang and Harbin in the severe cold winter region. The levelized cost of heat (LCOH) was used as the economic evaluation index, and the energy consumption and emissions of different pollutants… More > Graphic Abstract

Guiping Liu^*, Sheng Liu

The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Vol.21, No.4, pp. 92-92, 2019, DOI:10.32604/icces.2019.05523

Abstract In engineering multi-objective optimization of structures, the parameters involved in the problems are usually given deterministic values. However, due to the presence of manufacturing and measurement errors, uncertainty inevitably exists in the geometrical properties of the structure, the material properties, the boundary conditions, etc. For uncertain problems, the interval optimization methods are widely used. They describe the uncertainty by intervals which only need to find the upper and lower bounds of the uncertain parameters instead of constructing the exact probability distribution function. However, in multi-objective optimization problems, if considered all the upper and lower bounds… More >