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PROJECT TOPIC:  ENERGY QUALITY MANAGEMENT FOR BUILDING CLUSTERS AND DISTRICTS USING A MULTI-OBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION APPROACH
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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Contents                                                                                                                                 Page

Cover Page

Title Page                                                                                                                                i 

Declaration                                                                                                                              ii

Certification                                                                                                                            iii

Acknowledgements                                                                                                                iv

Dedication                                                                                                                              v

Table of Contents                                                                                                                   vi

List of Tables                                                                                                                          ix

List of Figures                                                                                                                         x

Nomenclature                                                                                                                          xi

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION                                                                                      1

1.1       Backgroundof the Study                                                                                            1

1.2       Statement of the Problem                                                                                           4

1.3       Aim and Objectives                                                                                                    5

1.4       Scope of the study                                                                                                      6

1.5       Approach to the study                                                                                                6

1.6       Significance of the Study                                                                                           6

CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW                                                                          8

2.1       Extent of Past Work                                                                                                   8

2.1.1    Energy and Global Environment                                                                                8

2.1.2    Energy and the Natural Environment                                                                         10

2.1.3    Energy Consumption in Building and Environment                                                  12

2.1.4    Policy, Legislation and Regulations on Energy use in Buildings                               15

2.2       Overview of Energy in Nigeria                                                                                   17

2.2.1    Electricity in Nigeria                                                                                                   19

2.2.2    Electricity and the Built Environment in Nigeria                                                       22

2.3       Building Cluster and its Influencing Factors                                                              25

2.3.1    Spatio-temporal Dimension of Building Cluster                                                        27

2.3.2    Influencing Factors                                                                                                     30

2.4       Approach to Energy Consumption Analyses in Buildings                                         32

2.4.1    Energy use Assessment Methods for Buildings                                                         35

2.5       Measure for Environmental Impacts of Energy Technology                                     37

2.5.1    Life-cycle Global Warming Potential Model                                                              38

2.6       Multi-objective Optimization: Methods and its applications                                      40

2.6.1    Methods of Multi-Objective Optimization (MOO)                                                    43

2.6.2    Pareto method                                                                                                             44

2.6.3   Scalarization Method                                                                                                   49

2.7       Research Gap                                                                                                              50

CHAPTER 3: MATERIALS AND METHODS                                                               52

3.1       Materials                                                                                                                     52

3.2       Methods                                                                                                                      52

3.3.      Exergy efficiency model                                                                                             52

3.4.      Estimation of Loss of Power Supply Probability                                                       53

3.5       Energy System Modelling                                                                                          55

CHAPTER 4

DATA PRESENTATION AND ANALYSIS 

4.1 Results                                                                                                                                       56

4.2 Data Analysis                                                                                                                              70

4.3 Discusion of findings                                                                                                                    77                                                                                                   

CHAPTER 5

5.1CONCLSUION                                                                                                                                  85

5.2 RECOMMENDATION                                                                                                                          90

5.3 Contribution to Knowledge                                                                                                                92

REFERNCES

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