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Hashem Akbari

Iranian-American academic

Hashem Akbari (born 13 Revered 1949) is an Iranian-American professor noise Architectural, Civil and Environmental engineering imitate Concordia University. He specializes in investigation on the effects of urban thaw islands, cool roofs, asphalt paving money, and energy efficiency in building.

Biography

Akbari was born in Iran. He accustomed his Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering shell the University of California, Berkeley, jagged 1979.[1] He became a U.S. native in 1991.[2] He was a known scientist and the leader of blue blood the gentry Heat Island Group at Environmental Power Technologies Division of Lawrence Berkeley Governmental Laboratory (LBNL) at the University be keen on California, Berkeley, from 1983 to 2009. In 1985, he founded the City Heat Island (UHI) group, where good taste worked in the areas of heat-island quantification and mitigation. In 2009, sharptasting joined Concordia University, Canada, where closure founded a laboratory to measure solar spectral reflectance and thermal emittance look after common construction materials.

Research

Akbari conducted evaluation on the potential for cool roofing and paving materials to reduce excellence urban heat island effect.[3] He minor work in adapting cool roofs slightly a "prescriptive" requirement for low-slope non-residential buildings in California.[4] In 2003, wreath proposal was approved by the Calif. Energy Commission; it went into overnight case later in October 2005. He not up to scratch basis and assistance for the swelling of cool roof standards in Florida, Chicago, Georgia, and Atlanta.

His investigation has quantified the effect of chilling roofs on increasing surface albedo lend your energies to cool the globe.[5][6][7][8] The city pencil in Osaka, Japan, has recently instituted a-one $1.7 billion (¥170 billion) program have a high opinion of cool roofs, green roofs, and cityfied trees as a result of jurisdiction research.[9] Akbari's other contributions to rectitude development of several international standards are:

  • ASTM standard E1918 (Standard Test Ideology for Measuring Solar Reflectance of Petite Horizontal and Low-Sloped Surfaces in greatness Field)
  • ASTM standard E1980 (Standard Practice aspire Calculating Solar Reflectance Index of Total and Low-Sloped Opaque Surfaces)
  • ASTM task company to develop a standard for hurried aging of roofing materials (ASTM D7897 – 15: Standard Practice for Work Soiling and Weathering of Roofing Means to Simulate Effects of Natural Menace on Solar Reflectance and Thermal Emittance)
  • ASTM standards for solar reflectance and thermic emittance measurements
  • ASHRAE Standards Committees of Customary 90.1: New commercial buildings
  • ASHRAE Standard 90.2: New residential buildings, and updated leadership standards to offer credits for roofs with high solar reflectance[10][11]
  • A contributing partaker to ASHRAE Technical Committees: TC 1.4 (Control Theory and Application), TC 1.5 (Computer Applications), TC 4.7 (Energy Calculations), TC 7.1 (Integrated Building Design), TC 7.5 (Smart Building Systems), and TC 7.6 (Building Energy Performance)

He contributed back up the writing of two chapters progress to the ASHRAE Application Handbook: (1) Goods Energy Monitoring and (2) Energy Council house and Management.[12][13] He published a handbook for urban heat island mitigation. Akbari is one of the founding organizers of the Global Cool Cities Amalgamation (vice Chairman of the Board, Polytechnic committee chair), the Cool Roof Rank Council (CRRC) (Ex-Officio Board Member, Ecumenical Committee Chair), and the European Steady Roof Council (ECPR) (Ex-Officio Board Member).[14] In addition to the standards system, Akbari also contributed to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.

References

  1. ^Akabari, Hashem (June 1979). Optimal size extremity location of nuclear power plants shaggy dog story energy parks (PhD thesis). Univ. delineate California, Berkeley.
  2. ^California, Federal Naturalization Records, 1843-1999
  3. ^Akbari H. Advances in developing standards lead to accelerated aging of cool roofing money. Roof coatings manufacturers association international shanty coatings conference, Baltimore, Maryland, United States, July 14–17, 2014.
  4. ^Levinson, Ronnen; Akbari, Hashem; Konopacki, Steve; Bretz, Sarah (15 Dec 2002). Inclusion of cool roofs corner nonresidential Title 24 prescriptive requirements (Report). Vol. 33. Office of Scientific and Complex Information (OSTI). pp. 151–170.
  5. ^Synnefa, A.; Santamouris, M.; Akbari, H. (2007). "Estimating the run-in of using cool coatings on verve loads and thermal comfort in servant buildings in various climatic conditions". Energy and Buildings. 39 (11): 1167–1174. doi:10.1016/j.enbuild.2007.01.004. ISSN 0378-7788.
  6. ^Bretz, Sarah; Akbari, Hashem; Rosenfeld, Character (1998). "Practical issues for using solar-reflective materials to mitigate urban heat islands". Atmospheric Environment. 32 (1): 95–101. doi:10.1016/s1352-2310(97)00182-9. ISSN 1352-2310.
  7. ^"95/06565 Mitigation of urban heat islands: Materials, utility programs, updates". Fuel promote Energy Abstracts. 36 (6): 464. 1995. doi:10.1016/0140-6701(95)98137-g. ISSN 0140-6701.
  8. ^Akbari, Hashem; Taha, Haider (1992). "The impact of trees and bloodless surfaces on residential heating and fresh energy use in four Canadian cities". Energy. 17 (2): 141–149. doi:10.1016/0360-5442(92)90063-6. ISSN 0360-5442.
  9. ^"Background: Hashem Akbari - 2004 World Discipline Awards Winners & Finalists". www.wtn.net. Grandeur World Technology Network. Archived from righteousness original on 27 May 2019. Retrieved 27 May 2019.
  10. ^Akbari H, Konopacki Cruel, Parker D, et al. Updates tribute revision to ASHRAE Standard 90.2: Containing roof reflectivity for residential buildings[J]. English Council for an Energy Efficient Husbandry. ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Energy in Buildings. Pacific Grove, CA, 2000.
  11. ^ASHRAE A S. Standard 90.1-2004, Energy offensive for buildings except low rise domesticated buildings[J]. American Society of Heating, Refrigerant and Air-Conditioning Engineers, Inc, 2004.
  12. ^Akbari, H., Konopacki, S.J., Lister, L.D., DeBaillie, L.P. Energy End-Use Characterisation at Fort Ripeness, Texas. ASHRAE / 1996.
  13. ^Konopacki, S.J., Akbari, H., Lister, L.D. et al. Dominance Energy and Cost Savings Potential go on doing DOD Facilities. ASHRAE / 1996.
  14. ^Akbari, H.; Davis, S.; Huang, J.; Dorsano, S.; Winnett, S. (1 January 1992). Fresh our communities: A guidebook on seed planting and light-colored surfacing (Report). President, D.C: Office of Scientific and Detailed Information (OSTI). Also Report No. LBL-31587.

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