Energy Storage in Buildings and Building Facilities
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2020) | Viewed by 9563
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Interests: thermal performance of buildings; thermal comfort; natural cooling techniques; energy systems; urban climate; sustainable architecture
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Interests: energy efficiency; adaptive comfort; energy rehabilitation; energy certification of buildings
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Dear Colleagues,
The growing concern about climate change and the consequent search for reasons in human activity inevitably leads us to point out, among other things, the current high energy consumption in buildings. In fact, and as it is well known, it is estimated that the energy consumption of buildings in developed countries represents up to 40% of total final energy consumption.
The world of research is also sensitive to this concern, which has led to an approach from many different points of view on how to deal with this problem: how to reduce energy needs in buildings, how to use it efficiently, and how to generate it through renewable sources.
At the same time, the research effort has led, and continues to lead today, more and more, to the development of innovative materials and technologies, more precise calculation methods, better building designs that require less energy use, etc.
Despite all this research effort, though, there are still many problems to be solved, and one of them is the temporary delay between the availability of energy and its need.
To cite some of the many examples in which this occurs, in a building, it is typical that solar gains through its windows are concentrated in a narrow time range, during daytime, which can cause overheating, and therefore, loss of potential use of this free gain. The use of solar radiation for the production of electricity in photovoltaic solar panels or for water heating in thermal solar collectors is also reduced by the disparity between the time when this energy is available and the time when it is needed. The solution goes through energy storage.
Once focused on the problem of energy storage, the approach is multiple, but fundamentally, it is about the efficiency of the processes of energy storage and release and increasing the capacity of such storage in the least possible space and at the lowest cost.
The previous objectives are the same, whether we talk about thermal or electrical energy, and whether the storage is done in the building itself or in its facilities.
Prof. Dr. Francisco José Sanchez de la Flor
Prof. Dr. José Manuel Salmerón Lissén
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Keywords
- energy and buildings
- building energy storage
- thermal inertia
- electric batteries
- renewable energy
- energy efficiency
- building dynamic simulation
