Indoor Air Quality and Thermal Comfort Enhancement in Large-Scale Indoor Spaces: Monitoring, Modeling, Controls
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Science and Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2023) | Viewed by 2284
Special Issue Editors
Interests: HVAC system control and optimization; demand control ventilation; pollutant prevention and control; CFD simulation
Interests: urban building energy efficiency; occupancy studies; urban building environment monitoring
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Interests: intelligent building and building integration technology; design and simulation of energy management systems; advanced control for HVAC application; BIM
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Large-scale public indoor spaces, such as shopping malls, sports centers, railway stations, mobile cabins (shelters) and hospitals, have unique features of airflow inside the space being dominated by supply air diffusers, partially or randomly distributed occupants, and heat transfer through building enclosures. This results in inhomogeneous indoor parameter distributions in terms of temperature, air speed, pollutants and so on, both in the horizontal and vertical direction. However, traditional ventilation control strategies are incapable of dealing with this problem properly. At the cost of massive energy use, they attempt to maintain overall indoor thermal comfort. Thus, developing sophisticated and practical technologies to precisely improve the indoor environment is imperative, especially during the COVID-19 era. It is currently complicated and labor-intensive to enhance such an indoor environment by certain regular technical means. It requires collaboration from various engineering disciplines and cross-disciplines, including heating ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC) engineering, control engineering, electrical engineering, computer science and technology. Thus, this Special Issue focus on indoor environment improvement tactics for large-scale indoor spaces. In particular, it aims to reduce energy consumption and contaminant transport. Practical and innovative techniques and interdisciplinary research related to monitoring, modelling and controlling indoor spaces are welcome.
This Special Issue mainly covers original research studies. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
- Indoor environmental dynamic monitoring techniques (IAQ, thermal comfort, health, occupancy);
- Computer science technology (digital twin technology, SLAM technology);
- Ventilation control strategies and algorithms;
- Modelling methodology of large-scale indoor space;
- Indoor air quality, thermal comfort and energy nexus;
- Airflow design and optimization;
- Adaptive and robustness control algorithm optimization;
- Prevention and protected ventilation control;
- Energy-efficient technology in large-scale indoor spaces;
- AI and IoT technology in large-scale indoor spaces.
Dr. Pei Zhou
Dr. Wei Wang
Dr. Syed Asad Hussain
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- large-scale indoor space
- monitoring
- modelling
- control
- indoor air quality
- thermal comfort
- ventilation
- energy-saving technology
