HVAC Systems for Buildings: Energy Performance and Thermal Comfort Optimization
A Special Issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073) belonging to the section "G: Energy and Buildings".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 5 April 2027 | Viewed by 29
Editors
Interests: air conditioning systems; energy efficiency of the building-plants system; RES (renewable energy sources) for buildings; building thermophysics
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Interests: building energy efficiency; renewable sources; sustainability; ground source heat pump; earth-to-air heat exchanger; zero energy building; geothermal energy
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
HVAC (Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning) systems account for a relevant part of the energy needed for buildings and related pollutant emissions. Therefore, their optimization is essential to improve energy efficiency and ensure thermal comfort and indoor air quality in air-conditioned spaces.
This Special Issue aims to present and disseminate the most recent advances related to the theory, design, modelling, application and monitoring of all types of HVAC systems for buildings, with reference to their energy performance.
Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to, the following:
- HVAC systems for buildings: energy performance;
- Thermal comfort in air conditioned spaces: energy implications;
- Indoor air quality (IAQ) in air conditioned spaces: energy implications;
- RES (renewable energy sources) for air conditioning systems;
- Innovative equipment and/or configurations of HVAC systems;
- HVAC systems for buildings: monitoring and energy implications;
- Automatic control systems for air conditioning: energy implications;
- Optimal design procedures for air conditioning: energy implications;
- Heating and cooling loads;
- HVAC systems for NZEBs;
- New modelling approaches for air conditioning: energy implications.
Although this Special Issue covers interdisciplinary research, the core focus of all submissions must remain within the field of energy.
Prof. Dr. Francesco Minichiello
Dr. Diana D'Agostino
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- HVAC systems
- air conditioning
- energy performance
- thermal comfort
- building
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