Browsing by Author "Abd-Elaal , Mohammad Refaat Mohammad"

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    Renewable energy and sustainable urban development in hot arid regions - case of Egypt : development concepts and implementation strategies for new settlements
    (2008) Abd-Elaal , Mohammad Refaat Mohammad; Pesch , Franz ( Prof. Dr.-Ing.)
    The main objective of this research is to make a connection between the hot arid regions urban development and renewable energy e.g. photovoltaics (PV), to delineate urban integrated renewable energy e.g. Urban Integrated Photovoltaics (UIPV) as a new approach for building new sustainable settlements in hot arid regions. The study assumes that applying this approach can play a major role in developing communities of the hot arid regions. Furthermore, the study claimed that developing arid regions' communities within the concept "urban development integrated renewable energy" will offer suitable solutions for their current major urban problems, and this can be a new urban development approach for the Egyptian arid regions communities. In this realm, the research introduces a model for the Urban Integrated Photovoltaics (UIPV) and it has been used as a tool to analyze the Egyptian case study of New Toshka city, as an Egyptian trial for developing an UIPV community, with reference to another two UIPV cases; case of the OECD countries, and MASDAR city - the UAE. This is in order to set up the main guidelines for establishing an UIPV development in the Egyptian arid regions.