The Sustainable Approaches of Energy Management and Intelligent Load Forecasting of HVAC Systems in Buildings
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "G: Energy and Buildings".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 February 2026 | Viewed by 876
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Interests: energy management; renewable energy control; hybrid electric vehicle; robotics and automation
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, there have been increasing concerns over the growth of energy demand, global warming, and the reduction in greenhouse gases. To achieve the goals set for carbon dioxide emissions’ reduction, energy consumption must be reduced by improving energy efficiency in industrial and commercial sectors. In this regard, the building sector has garnered increased attention because it consumes over 36% of the final energy consumption worldwide. The use of advanced control systems in the building sector enables an increase in the overall energy efficiency and a reduction in carbon and other emissions.
Intelligent buildings have garnered great interest due to the fast advancement of communication and information technology. These buildings can forecast weather, ambient temperature, and sun irradiation and modify heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) operations appropriately, based on the current and previous data. The integration of monitoring system and advanced control techniques would increase energy saving and can avoid the identification of an anomaly in a system operation. This change is intended to predict energy load and reduce HVAC system energy usage while maintaining an appropriate degree of thermal comfort and indoor air quality.
This Special Issue aims to cover the most recent advances related to the theory, design, modelling, load forecasting, application, control, and condition monitoring of HVAC system. We encourage authors to submit research papers, reviews, technical papers, case studies, and methodologies.
Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Online and offline condition monitoring techniques;
- Optimal design methodologies;
- Advanced modelling approaches;
- Statistical forecasting models (ARIMA; SARIMA; ARMAX; multi-variate regression; Kalman filter; etc.);
- Artificial neural networks (ANNs);
- Knowledge-based expert systems and fuzzy theory and fuzzy inference systems;
- Evolutionary computation models and evolutionary algorithms;
- Support vector regression (SVR);
- New models for load forecasting demand;
- Important variables in the forecasting;
- Forecasting applications to the management of the HVAC system;
- Data analytics;
- Fault detection and diagnosis.
Dr. Ali Razban
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- energy management
- energy efficiency
- energy building
- HVAC system
- load forecasting
- thermal comfort
- artificial neural networks (ANNs)
- fuzzy theory
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