Sustainable Built Environment: Advanced Ventilation and Energy Efficient Technologies
A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Building Energy, Physics, Environment, and Systems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 December 2019) | Viewed by 8333
Special Issue Editors
Interests: building big data analytics; building energy efficiency; HVAC control and optimization; desiccant cooling systems; thermal energy storage using phase change materials; solar photovoltaic thermal collectors
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Interests: multiscale modeling of heat and mass transfer in a built environment; ventilation techniques and optimization in underground space; porous media reconstruction and application to energy storage with phase changes or adsorption; air cycle heat pump technologies
Interests: sustainable ventilation techniques in buildings; multiphase flow dynamics in cooling systems
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The building sector consumes a significant amount of global energy usage, and energy consumption in buildings will continuously increase in forthcoming years due to the rapid increase in the living standards and the wide deployment of air conditioning systems, as well as climate change. Improving energy efficiency in buildings and creating a sustainable and healthy built environment are essential to reducing global energy usage, enabling the productivity and wellbeing of occupants, and enhancing national and international energy security.
This Special Issue invites researchers to contribute original research articles and review articles on innovative approaches and solutions towards the development of a sustainable built environment with a focus on advanced building ventilation solutions and building energy-efficient technologies. Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:
- Advanced ventilation and HVAC technologies;
- Energy storage;
- Energy-efficient building design;
- Existing building refurbishment;
- Renewable energy in buildings; and
- Data analytics for improved building performance.
Assoc. Prof. Zhenjun Ma
Prof. Shugang Wang
Dr. Jihong Wang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- energy efficiency
- ventilation
- built environment
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