Progress on Sustainable Energy Technologies for Building Applications
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 September 2020) | Viewed by 6513
Special Issue Editors
Interests: sustainable and renewable energy technologies; sustainable building technologies; building integrated renewable energy systems; refrigeration/cooling devices including ejector cooling; absorption and desiccant cooling system and thermoelectric devices; phase change materials and energy efficient systems
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Sustainability is a term that is receiving considerable atttention in all areas of our life, and energy supply and use in buildings are some of the key elements of sustainable development. Therefore, the way we produce, supply and use energy is undergoing a major transformation in attempts to tackle issues of increasing rates of GHG emission and climate change. In achieving sustainable energy supply, current trends lean towards tapping into renewable and clean energy. Saving energy through the improvement and enhancement of energy conversion and utilisation processes is one way to reduce energy consumptions through energy efficiency measures. A considerable amount of research involving technological upgrades has been devoted to enhancing renewable energy conversion processes and reducing energy consumption in the building sector in the last two decades, and most of this expert knowledge and these findings are disseminated through a range of scientific journal and conference contributions. There is a massive volume of research output out there, which needs to be brought to the attention of stakeholders for the benefit of accelerating the process of laying down the fundamentals of sustainability in the energy sector.
This Special Issue will collate and compile the progress on the research, development, and application of sustainable energy technologies for buildings applications and any relevant sectors, bringing this to the attention of a wider audience across the globe in a concise form. This Special Issue will welcome research papers reporting critical review, theoretical investigation, laboratory and field trials of new innovations and developments of sustainable energy technologies for building applications. Manuscripts should be unpublished and report significant developments in this area.
Prof. Dr. Siddig Adam Omer
Prof. Dr. Hu Mingke
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Renewable energy integration with buildings
- Sustainable energy integration with buildings
- Sustainable technologies
- Zero-energy buildings
- Green building
- Energy systems and technologies
- Energy harvesting systems
- Operational performance of energy systems
- Operational performance of low-energy buildings
- Operation and maintenance of low-energy buildings
- Progress in sustainable energy technologies
- Economic of environmentally friendly energy systems
- Small-scale power and energy systems
- Environmental impact analysis of sustainable technologies
- New development in energy systems
- Energy efficiency systems
- Sustainability measures in energy systems
- Sustainable applications
- Energy storage and energy management systems
- Hybrid energy systems
- Energy systems modelling for sustainability
- Integration of large-scale renewable energy into the grid system
- Off-grid renewable energy integration
- Energy distribution systems
- Ejector cooling system
- Desiccant cooling systems
- Phase change material for building applications.
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