Advances in Solar Energy Integration for Green and Low-Carbon Buildings: From Materials and System Design to Intelligent Control
A Special Issue of Processes (ISSN 2227-9717) belonging to the section "Energy Systems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2027 | Viewed by 115
Editors
Interests: solar thermal and photovoltaic utilization technology; building energy and environment
Interests: solar thermal utilization; building-integrated renewable energy application; envelope structural improvement
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Accelerated by the global energy transition and China’s dual‑carbon goals, the building sector urgently requires green and low-carbon solutions. Solar energy, as a clean, abundant, and widely distributed resource, plays a pivotal role in achieving energy savings and carbon reduction in buildings. The integrated utilization of multiple solar forms—photovoltaics, thermal conversion, daylighting, ventilation, and purification—has emerged as a key trend to enhance building energy self-sufficiency, improve indoor environmental quality, and lower life‑cycle carbon emissions.
This Special Issue invites contributions on novel solar materials and components, system design and optimization, as well as intelligent control and operation management. We welcome studies on building‑integrated photovoltaics, solar thermal systems, PV/T technologies, phase‑change materials, AI‑based energy management, and life‑cycle assessment, among other topics, to advance the synergistic application of solar energy in buildings.
Dr. Wenjie Liu
Prof. Dr. Yuanli Lyu
Dr. Kai Zhang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- solar energy in buildings
- building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV)
- PV/T systems
- solar thermal utilization
- smart energy management
- near‑zero energy buildings
- phase‑change materials
- AI-based optimization
- life-cycle carbon assessment
- integrated solar design
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