Solar Building, Heating, and Cooling: Advanced Construction Materials, Systems, and Practices
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Science and Technology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2020) | Viewed by 20385
Special Issue Editor
Interests: materials engineering; optical physics; solar energy; thin-film coatings; luminescent materials; building integrated photovoltaics; glazing system design; energy efficiency in buildings
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We cordially invite you to contribute to our Special Issue of Applied Sciences dedicated to building-integrated solar heating and cooling, as well as distributed on-site solar energy generation. This Special Issue aims at gathering selected papers on unconventional and emergent solar energy applications, linked to novel construction materials and practices.
The currently established and forward-looking trends in advanced construction and architecture feature an ever-increasing focus on ensuring maximised energy efficiency in buildings and utilisation of renewable energy sources. Building integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) and other approaches to the “solarisation” of construction sector practices are rapidly becoming mainstream directions in modern architectural design. These also include multiple existing and new solar-powered heating and cooling technologies, working in conjunction with building-integrated electricity generation and distribution technologies. Continued progress in the aforementioned areas will play a key role globally in several emergent economy sectors, such as smart cities development, the Internet of Things, and widespread distributed electricity generation networks.
We encourage researchers to share their original manuscripts and data in the fields of building-integrated solar energy systems. Topics of primary interest include but are not limited to the following:
- Solar heating and cooling;
- Building-integrated solar photovoltaics;
- Unconventional photovoltaics;
- Distributed energy generation in buildings
- Net zero energy construction;
- Integration of energy-efficient HVAC systems with on-site renewable generation;
- Solar windows and advanced glazings;
- Case studies.
Dr. Mikhail Vasiliev
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- next-generation solar-enabled technologies
- building integration
- unconventional solar
- HVAC efficiency
- energy generation at the point of use
- distributed generation
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