Building Thermal Environment and Building Energy Saving Technology
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "G: Energy and Buildings".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 July 2023) | Viewed by 191
Special Issue Editors
2. Department of Mathematics and Systems Analysis, School of Science, Aalto University, P.O. BOX 11100 Aalto, Finland
Interests: energy systems optimization; district heating; combined heat and power; dynamic simulation; waste heat recovery; low carbon smart control; multicriteria evaluation
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, our climate has drastically changed. Human beings have experienced more extreme and disruptive weather, such as heatwaves in the summer and cold spells in the winter. At the same time, the building sector accounts for approximately 40% of primary energy consumption and about 25% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Since people spend about 90% of their time in different kinds of buildings, heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems are becoming increasingly important to guarantee human thermal comfort and to combat global climate change. However, it is more important than ever before to maintain building thermal comfort by utilizing as less energy as possible. Therefore, innovative research and applications of sustainable building designs, advanced HVAC systems, renewable energy sources, dynamic heating and cooling operation strategies and precise control technologies will play increasingly important roles in the future.
This Special Issue aims to encourage novel research on the ways in which one can reduce the energy consumption of buildings, while improving or not sacrificing building thermal comfort. The research topics of this Special Issue include the following:
- Building thermal environments;
- Nearly zero-energy buildings;
- Renewable energy utilization;
- Heat storage technology;
- Building energy consumption and carbon footprint;
- Precise control for space heating/cooling;
- Building dynamic simulation;
- Climate change and heating/cooling load prediction;
- Advanced HVAC systems and equipment;
- Artificial intelligence and big data in building control;
- Heating/cooling terminals;
- Other relevant topics are also welcome.
Dr. Haichao Wang
Dr. Haiwen Shu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- thermal environment
- energy consumption
- building simulation
- heat storage
- heating/cooling load
- renewable energy
- building design
- climate change
- HVAC
- control
- operation
