Thermal Energy Storage and Desiccant-Based HVAC System Design for Net Zero Energy Building
A special issue of Processes (ISSN 2227-9717). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Systems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 March 2023) | Viewed by 2772
Special Issue Editors
Interests: heat transfer; thermodynbamics; adsorption
Interests: thermal energy storage; thermal conductivity; phase change materials; micro and nanoencapsulation; thermal energy storage applications
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Due to a rapid rise in the energy demand of buildings in recent decades, the transition to net zero energy building (NZEB) (100% energy conversion) has been realized globally. For instance, in Europe, the Energy Performance of Building Directive has declared that, from 2019, all the new public buildings and, from 2021, all the new buildings shall be built as nearly zero energy building (nZEB) (70% energy conversion). The U.S. and Canada are also planning to extensively introduce NZEBs between 2020 and 2030, whereas Japan will be adopting NZEB as the building standard from 2030.
According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), a large portion of building energy is spent for space cooling and heating. Therefore, design and implementation of energy efficient cooling and heating technology is of utmost importance to achieve the ambitious NZEB goal. Due to the dramatic advances in synethsis of new functional materials, thermal energy storage using phase change materials (PCM), and heating ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) system design using desiccant materials has great potential to reduce the building energy consumption for cooling and heating.
The scope of this Special Issue encompasses any recent developments in the PCM based thermal energy storage and desiccant based HVAC system design that could potentially reduce the primary energy consumption in the buildings. Design, synthesis, characterization and performance evaluation of novel functional metarials, as well as their application in the system, novel system design, and their performance evaluation relating to building energy reduction will be given priority for publication. All the submitted articles will go through standard peer-review process prior to acceptance.
Dr. Jubair A. Shamim
Dr. Rajagopalan Parameshwaran
Dr. Palash Kumar Bhowmik
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- phase change materials
- thermal energy storage
- micro and nanoencapsulation
- desiccant based dehumidification
- adsorption
- HVAC
- net zero energy building
- cooling and heating systems
- energy efficiency in buildings
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