Energy-Efficient Strategies for Thermal Comfort and Indoor Air Quality in Buildings
A Special Issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073) belonging to the section "G: Energy and Buildings".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 January 2027 | Viewed by 97
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Interests: heat transfer; heat exchangers; indoor air quality; thermal comfort; numerical simulations; environmental measurements
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Energy consumption in the world constantly rises. Its large share is used in the building sector, including the daily operation of building services as such heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems, whose energy consumption might be significant. Thus, even a small reduction in indoor air temperature during the heating season and a small increase in indoor temperature during the summer (reducing the required cooling load) might be beneficial from an energy consumption point of view. Here, however, the question arises as to which extent the temperatures could be reduced/increased, so that the residents could still experience thermal comfort conditions. Moreover, nowadays people tend to spend more and more time within buildings—mostly in homes, workplaces or educational facilities. Consequently, it is crucial to provide them with a high-quality indoor environment in order to create healthy indoor conditions and ensure satisfaction as well as high productivity and learning performance. Creating such favourable conditions (of optimal air temperature and relative humidity, low concentration of gaseous and particulate pollutants, etc.) typically involves covering certain energy costs for building operation. Thus, scientific effort should be properly channelled to find a solution to provide a proper indoor environment for people while keeping the building energy demand low.
This Special Issue addresses thermal comfort and air quality in buildings, with a particular focus on proper energy management. Studies linking energy performance of buildings with ensuring a high-quality indoor environment will be of particular interest. Novel solutions related to the application of proper energy management in buildings (including energy storage) and their impact on thermal comfort and indoor air quality will be considered highly valuable.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Energy-efficient strategies for ensuring thermal comfort and high indoor air quality in buildings;
- Building energy performance with respect to thermal comfort and indoor air quality;
- Energy optimization for thermal comfort and indoor environmental quality in buildings;
- Advances in energy-saving technologies for thermal comfort and indoor air quality;
- Modelling of thermal comfort in intelligent buildings.
Although this Special Issue covers interdisciplinary research across building physics, environmental engineering and human ergonomics, all manuscripts must take building energy performance, energy optimization or energy management as their primary research objective. Studies focusing merely on thermal comfort perception or indoor pollutant characteristics without quantitative energy assessment, energy-saving strategies or energy load analysis will not be considered for publication.
Dr. Lukasz Orman
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- energy-efficient strategies for thermal comfort and indoor air quality
- modelling of thermal comfort in intelligent buildings
- thermal comfort and energy performance of buildings
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