Energy Efficiency in Residential Heating
A special issue of Processes (ISSN 2227-9717). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Systems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 March 2023) | Viewed by 2328
Special Issue Editors
Interests: zero-energy buildings; energy flexible buildings; renewable energy; latent heat storage; smart and optimal systems with machine-learning
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Interests: building; environment; district energy
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2. National Center for International Research Collaboration in Building Safety and Environment, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China
Interests: low-energy and zero-carbon buildings; sustainable energy, and energy storage; low-carbon energy transitions; energy renovation of existing buildings; techno-economic assessment; high-quality green construction innovation management
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Dear Colleagues,
District heating in residential buildings consumes a large amount of energy, especially in extremely cold climate regions. Energy efficiency in residential heating is important to reduce the depletion of traditional fossil fuels, decrease global final energy use, and decrease global carbon emissions, so as to help achieve carbon neutrality in building sectors. Residential heating systems normally include heating energy supply and heating load at the end-user side. Depending on different energy sources and energy conversion processes, there are different types for residential heating, such as gas boilers; solar thermal collectors; combined cooling, heat, and power (CCHP); heat pump; among others. Normally, heating energy supply systems should be dynamically controlled in accordance with heating load of residential buildings. Real-time controls propose high requirements of fast response times without signal delay, such as iterative feedback control, PID (proportional-integral-differential) control, model predictive control, and so on. In addition, thermal energy storage can also address the mismatch between heating energy supply and heating load.
Energy-efficient heating systems, flexible heating loads, and advanced thermal energy storages are effective strategies for reducing traditional fossil fuel consumption and enhancing self-consumption of renewable energy resources (such as solar energy, geothermal energy, and so on). Furthermore, system optimization can provide multi-dimensional effective approaches in design and operation. Techno–economic–environmental analysis can provide technical viability and economic feasibility on different systems for district heating.
Considering the interest of this topic, we are organizing a Special Issue entitled “Energy Efficiency in Residential Heating”, aiming at reporting the most recent new finding from researchers and sector professionals, in the scope of the following themes.
Original manuscripts covering the following broad themes are invited from researchers and agencies, namely
- Energy flexibility in residential heating;
- Thermal energy storages;
- Renewable energy in district heating;
- Waste heating recovery;
- Model predictive control;
- Single- and multi-objective optimisations;
- Techno–economic–environmental analysis.
Dr. Yuekuan Zhou
Prof. Dr. Guoqiang Zhang
Dr. Zhengxuan Liu
Dr. Xiaoxia Gao
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- energy efficiency
- residential heating
- district heating
- energy flexible buildings
- thermal energy storages
- waste heat recovery
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