During the last decade, Mexico City's air quality has deteriorated dramatically. Air pollution management has become a major issue, and a number of policies and campaigns aimed at reducing the volume of harmful emissions released into the atmosphere by vehicles and large-scale industries, have been implemented. / Lighting, office equipment, cooking, refrigeration, space heating, space cooling, ventilation, and water heating are the ultimate commercial uses of energy. The goal of this study is to determine if there is a potential market for solar water heaters that could provide hot water for a number of activities in the city, reducing the amount of fossil fuels burned for this purpose, thus contributing to decrease the amount of air pollutants to the atmosphere. / The results of this research show how a number of industries, public services and commercial activities need to be provided with both water and energy in large quantities, and are therefore potential users of solar thermal technologies.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.30128 |
| Date | January 1999 |
| Creators | Ferrel-Mendieta, Minerva. |
| Contributors | Bhatt, Vikram (advisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Architecture (School of Architecture.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 001745067, proquestno: MQ64110, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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