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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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Seol-Hyun Noh and Hyeun Jun Moon
This study focuses on gathering environmental data concerning the indoor climate within a dormitory, encompassing variables such as air temperature, relative humidity, CO2 concentration, fine dust concentration, illuminance, and total volatile organic co...
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Alejandro Moreno-Rangel, Tim Sharpe, Gráinne McGill and Filbert Musau
The ongoing climate change and policies around it are changing how we design and build homes to meet national carbon emission targets. Some countries such as Scotland are adopting higher-energy-efficient buildings as minimum requirements in the building ...
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Wanwan Wang and Mengmeng Zhao
Personal cooling garments were reported effective in improving thermal comfort in hot environments. In this study, three liquid?air hybrid cooling garments and one control garment were designed and made: aluminum-tube fan cooling (AAL), silicone-tube fan...
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Huice Mao, Hang Yu, Yin Tang, Kege Zhang, Maohui Luo and Linyi Zhuang
Quarantine is one of the effective approaches to control the spread of COVID-19. However, prolonged isolation may harm the health of residents, especially students, who are quarantined in dormitories. This study surveyed students? behaviors, living envir...
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Xiaozhou Wu, Hao Gao, Mingming Zhao, Jie Gao, Zhen Tian and Xiangli Li
A ceiling cooling system integrated with a mechanical ventilation system has been widely used in modern buildings with large sensible cooling loads due to the high thermal comfort level and large energy efficiency. However, there is a lack of systematic ...
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Yujian Lu, Xiao Yang, Lei E, Zhiwei Fang, Yongzhen Li, Chao Liang, Zhengxiang Shi and Chaoyuan Wang
A mixing fan and spraying system is commonly used to control the indoor environment of naturally ventilated dairy barns worldwide. However, its impact on particulate matter (PM) concentration and variation is still unclear due to the lack of year-round f...
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Mengbing Cao, Qianying Yi, Kaiying Wang, Jiangong Li and Xiaoshuai Wang
Precise ventilation rate estimation of a naturally ventilated livestock building can benefit the control of the indoor environment. Machine learning has become a useful technique in many research fields and might be applied to ventilation rate prediction...
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Jing Zhao, Dehan Liu and Shilei Lu
In cold climatic zones of China, an attached sunspace passive solar heating system was installed on a farmhouse to improve the indoor thermal environment in winter.
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Ba-Viet Ngo and Thanh-Hai Nguyen
A semi-automatic wheelchair allows disabled people to possibly control in an indoor environment with obstacles and targets. The paper proposes an EEG-based control system for the wheelchair based on a grid map designed to allow disabled people to reach a...
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