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The purpose of this study is to investigate the performance of eight perylene diimide pigments as a hypothetical building facades using EnergyPlus.

A hypothetical building located in Tehran is modeled using EnergyPlus, and the effectiveness of the pigments was examined. Furthermore, the performance of the pigments was compared with those of common commercial black (carbon black) and red (iron oxide) pigments.

The results show that the studied black pigments reduce the cooling energy demand up to 37 per cent in comparison with carbon black paint and the red ones, which reduce the value by as much as 32 per cent in comparison to iron oxide.

This study demonstrates that the application of cool paints rather than common paints will significantly reduce the cooling energy demand and subsequent costs.

The first in first out (FIFO) rule is an indispensable rule in the automotive industry. However, during production, the order of coming to welding operation and exiting through the painting operation is broken. Consequently, the rule of FIFO also gets broken. The purpose of this paper is to eliminate the deviations of the automotive painting process in a just in time (JIT) environment.

The paper has been solved using observations and expert’s opinions and recorded data in the real problem area. Bypass technique and express line have been used as a real problem for the minimization of these deviations. The current process and the bypass process have been compared with simulation optimization.

This paper provides analytical insights about how to prevent delays during the JIT production painting process. Delays have been prevented by using the bypass technique and express line together. The number of delays reduced with an improvement of 129. The ratio of effect (for four months) has been founded to be 0.12. The output rate has been increased from 80% to 89%.

This paper focused on the number of vehicles in the cooling area of the painting process in the study; there may occur bottleneck processes or products. It does not contain station-based bottleneck processes.

From the real-case problem, one will see that the bypass technique and the express line can be applied and generalized to many similar problems and help companies conduct their assembly lines more efficiently.

This paper is the only example that has been used to bypass technique and express line together on the paint/cooling process in a JIT production system.

Baxter Fell — a good solid English name.

The purpose of this paper is to develop a set of affordable retrofit packages that can be applied to existing residential buildings in hot-humid regions to improve occupants’ thermal comfort and reduce energy consumption.

A critical review of relevant literature to identify passive design strategies for improving thermal comfort and reducing energy consumption in hot-humid climates with focus on the building envelope was conducted in addition to a simulation study of an existing building typology in study area.

There is enormous potential to reduce energy costs and improve thermal comfort through building retrofit packages which is a recent concept in developing countries, such as Nigeria. Analysing the results of the retrofit interventions using building energy simulation helped in developing affordable retrofit packages which had optimum effect in improving indoor comfort temperature to the neutral temperature specified for hot humid Nigeria and further down to 3°C less than that of the reference building used. The use of passive design strategies to retrofit the building might help homeowners reduce their annual energy consumption by up to 46.3 per cent just by improving the indoor thermal comfort.

In addition to improving thermal comfort and reducing energy consumption, this research identified affordable retrofit packages and considered its cost implications especially to low-income earners who form a larger population of Lagos, Nigeria, as this was not considered by many previous researchers.

Pre‐coated steel is well known as a high performance external cladding material but is finding increasingly diverse applications as an interior finish and in manufacturing industries where the benefits of pre‐coating are being realized.

During the 1960s, a new paint application process began to appear, variously called “Electro‐coating”, “Electropainting”, “Electrophoretic deposition”, etc. The process extends and modifies the principles of electroplating into the field of electro‐deposition of paint. It is best characterised as the utilisation of Electrodepositable Synthetic Filmforming Macro‐ions. The process, like electroplating, consists in submerging objects to be coated in a bath of waterdispersed ions. These, through the action of an impressed DC current, are deposited on the electrode of opposite polarity. While metal ions require 1 Faraday for the deposition of approximately 30g metal, electrocoating of paints requires 1 Faraday for typically 1,600g of paint.

Given below are details of certain recent developments of interest to the paint‐using industries. These are additional to the many references to new paint materials in past issues of ‘Corrosion Technology’.

Polypropylene filter drum for precious metal refiners. Laminated Plastic Products have been following a concerted policy of diversifying from their conventional business of fabricating corrosion resistant reactor vessel internals in fibre reinforced thermosetting resins and P.T.F.E., to manufacturing fabrications in thermoplastic materials. They have tended to concentrate their diversification efforts in that area of industry using their traditional products i.e. the chemical industry where demanding corrosive chemical conditions are experienced.

A revolutionary type of face mask for paint operators is now available from Hodge Clemco Ltd, Orgreave Drive, Handsworth, Sheffield.