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Etienne Saloux
This paper summarizes the results of a Special Issue focusing on the practical applications of model predictive control and other advanced control methods in the built environment. This Special Issue contains eleven publications and deals with various to...
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Tiankai Yang, Zhenzhong Sun, Yongliang Liang and Lichuan Liu
With the rapid development of global trade, a large number of goods and resources are imported and exported via seaports. Multiple thermal loads and renewable energy merge into seaports, making the energy supply and demand structure increasingly complex....
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Ángel Benigno González-Avilés, Carlos Pérez-Carramiñana, Antonio Galiano-Garrigós and María Isabel Pérez-Millán
Over the last decade there has been a proliferation of glamping architecture. This study analyses the energy performance of geodesic domes for use in tourist glamping compared to more conventional prismatic architectural solutions. The energy analysis of...
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Christian Hepf, Ben Gottkehaskamp, Clayton Miller and Thomas Auer
Building operational energy alone accounts for 28% of global carbon emissions. A sustainable building operation promises enormous savings, especially under the increasing concern of climate change and the rising trends of the digitalization and electrifi...
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Pinar Mert Cuce, Erdem Cuce and Saffa Riffat
The construction sector, including in developed countries, plays a notable part in the overall energy consumption worldwide, being responsible for 40% of it. In addition to this, heating, ventilating and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems constitute the lar...
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Yijia Zhou, Hang Yu, Maohui Luo and Xiang Zhou
Thermal sensation prediction models can help to evaluate complex thermal environments and guide the environment conditioning strategy. However, most existing models are established basing on the thermal status of the entire human body or local body parts...
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Nazario Tartaglione, Thomas Toniazzo, Odd Helge Otterå and Yvan Orsolini
In this study, we use the Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model, forced by present-day atmospheric composition and coupled to a Slab Ocean Model, to simulate the state of the climate under grand solar minimum forcing scenarios. Idealized experiments p...
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Juan Prieto, Dereje S. Ayou and Alberto Coronas
The aim of this study is to analyze the feasibility of the single-effect H2O/LiBr absorption heat pump cycle to produce combined heating and cooling. To achieve this, first, the main changes that the absorption cycle requires are described in comparison ...
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Zhaoyi Zhuang, Jin Zhao, Fengfeng Mi, Teng Zhang, Yuguo Hao and Shangyue Li
Heat pump technology can extract low-level heat energy from urban sewage to heat or cool buildings, which can alleviate the two major problems of energy shortage and environmental pollution to a certain extent. This paper introduces the principle of wast...
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Ali Habeeb Askar, Endre Kovács and Betti Bolló
This study aimed to estimate the heating load (HL) and the cooling load (CL) of a residential building using neural networks and to simulate the thermal behavior of a four-layered wall with different orientations. The neural network models were developed...
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