Research on Indoor Air Environment and Energy Conservation
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: 31 May 2025 | Viewed by 5852
Special Issue Editors
Interests: building energy conversion; indoor air environment; passive cooling; radiative cooling
Interests: high efficiency heat pump; large temperature zeotropic mixture; sleeping environment; thermal comfort and indoor air quality
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Interests: building performance simulation; data center cooling; building energy system retrofits; energy resilient buildings; HVAC systems; renewable energy solutions
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Interests: building energy saving; building energy flexibility; school building design optimization
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Indoor air environment and energy conservation have become increasingly important issues due to the rapid development of modern society. With more people spending time indoors, the quality of indoor air has a direct impact on people's health and well-being. Furthermore, the increasing energy consumption of buildings to satisfy the indoor thermal environment has led to a significant increase in carbon emissions, exacerbating the issue of climate change.
To promote the development of healthy low-carbon buildings, this Special Issue of Buildings aims to address the outlined challenges by welcoming articles related to (but not limited to) the following topics:
- Advances and reviews of indoor air environment/building energy conversion;
- Passive and positive methods for the energy-efficient provision of clean air;
- Identification and control of indoor pollution sources;
- Novel energy materials for building applications;
- Renewable/integrated energy system for energy-saving construction;
- Applications of passive cooling/heating technologies in buildings;
- Modeling and simulation for indoor environment/building energy systems.
Dr. Kai Zhang
Dr. Jian Liu
Dr. Xiaolei Yuan
Dr. Yizhe Xu
Dr. Junming Zhou
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- indoor air quality
- indoor thermal environment
- materials for energy conversion
- renewable energy system
- integrated energy system
- modeling of energy system
- energy efficience in building
- passvie energy in building
- building simulation
- flexible
- building
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