NOMENCLATURE Subscripts d Dismantling procedure/unit s Storage site r Treatment unit m Market for cullet i Any procedure/unit Design variables Quantity of ELV transferred to dismantling unit d Quantity of ELV of no glazing dismantling Quantity of glazing transformed from dismantling unit d to storage site s Quantity of glazing exposed to landfill Total quantity of glazing exposed to landfill Qu...

Adequate glazing (6-10%) of fish fillets prior to frozen storage protects the final product from dehydration, oxidation and quality loss. Excessive glazing (>12%) on the other hand may significantly affect the economic value and end user satisfaction of frozen fish fillets. This paper describes the optimization, validation and application of a gravimetric procedure for the quantification of the...

Window performance in buildings is very important for energy saving. Many efforts have been made towards saving energy in buildings, and research has focused attention on enhancing the thermal performance of windows. Vacuum glazing has attracted much interest as a means of enhancing the thermal performance of windows by strengthening insulation performance. However, the performance of vacuum gl...

Current specifications for glazing in the 2000 IECC code adopted by Texas imply the use of low-E glazing. However, the trends in the development of high­ performance glazing technology indicate that windows have the potential to provide net positive energy benefits making it inevitable for future versions of the IECC to incorporate high-performance glazing. This study examines the performance o...

Glazing is a process used to reduce undesirable drying or dehydration of fish during frozen or cold storage. To evaluate the effect of the time/ temperature binomial of the cryogenic frozen tunnel in the amount of glazing watera Central Composite Rotatable Design was used, with application of the Response Surface Methodology. The results reveal that the time/ temperature obtained for pink cusk-...

Building facades in commercial and residential buildings in Australia, UK and elsewhere are highly vulnerable to terrorist threats involving explosive blast loading. The modelling of consequences to built infrastructure when subject to blast loading is well developed; however, considerable uncertainty remains with respect to system response and explosive loading parameters. In this paper, struc...

Increased global urbanization has caused tall buildings to become an inevitable building form making the façade and especially the glazing areas of paramount importance for the overall heat loss and heat gain of the building. The substantial technological advances in insulating glass and glazing systems made during the past 25 years have improved the possibility for designing well-functioning b...

A cost and benefit analysis of future end-of-life vehicle glazing recycling in France: a system dynamics approach, " Resources, Conservation and Recycling, Each year, the lives of 8 million vehicles in Europe come to an end, of which France has a share of 1.8 million (ADEME 2008). Glass represents 2.9% of the weight of the typical European End of Life Vehicle (ELV) (ADEME 2007). It is a compone...

The modelling of consequences to built infrastructure when subject to blast loading is well developed; however, there is considerable uncertainty and variability with explosive loading and system response; which provides many challenges for collateral damage estimation. In this paper, structural facades are assessed – with a focus on glazing – as this is a structural and load-capacity system th...

This paper reports the simulation approach and prediction of annual energy performance of PV ventilated glazing systems with daylight saving as applying to typical office environment. Our computer model was developed via the ESP-r simulation platform in association with the RADIANCE lighting software. The new attempt of using indirect interaction between the two simulation programs through dayl...