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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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Zhigang Ren, Shize Yang, Jiaji Zhang, Qiankun Wang, Shuqiang Gui, Junli Zhou, Yuyang Tang, Ke Zhu, Chuxiong Shen, Zhihua Xiong, Jinlong Sun, Xinpeng Qiu and Zhuo Chen
The discharge of warm water from water source heat pump (WSHP) energy stations can cause local changes in the water temperature, leading to changes in the water quality around and downstream of the discharge outlet, resulting in a cumulative effect that ...
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Xing-Zhou Li, Zhong-Ren Peng, Qingyan Fu, Qian Wang, Jun Pan and Hongdi He
Air pollution is a growing concern in metropolitan areas worldwide, and Shanghai, as one of the world?s busiest ports, faces significant challenges in local air pollution control. Assessing the contribution of a specific port to air pollution is essentia...
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Yanli Zhang, Miao Liu, Li Han, Jinhu Yang, Xinyao Zhao, Jiahui Qu, Lijun Li, Yunlong Bai, Dong Yan and Guannan Hou
Ecological stoichiometry (ES) is an important index that reflects the balance of various elements in ecological processes. Therefore, it is of great significance to understand the soil nutrient cycle to clarify the environmental control of soil carbon (C...
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Theresa Reinhardt Piskácková and Miroslav Jursík
In order to achieve integrated weed management, precision timing is just as important an aspect to consider as spatial precision: the stage of the plant at the time of action will impact its successful control or survivability and thus the selection pres...
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Woochul Choi, Bongjoo Jang, Intaek Jung, Hongki Sung and Younmi Jang
Research related to thermal cameras, which are major control measures, is increasing to overcome the limitations of closed-circuit television (CCTV) images. Thermal cameras have the advantage of easily detecting objects at night and of being able to iden...
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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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Josie Mielhausen, Jaclyn M. H. Cockburn, Paul V. Villard and André-Marcel Baril
Vortex rock weirs (VRW) are often used in natural channel design applications to maintain channel form and function, provide physical channel stability, and enhance aquatic habitats. A balanced approach is required to address (often) conflicting goals of...
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Xiaojie Jiao, Cheng Cheng, Yubing Song, Gang Wang and Linjuan He
The rock deformation and failure characteristics and mechanisms are very important for stability evaluation and hazard control in rock engineering. The process of rock deformation and failure is often accompanied by temperature changes. It is of great si...
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Qiu Tu, Lina Zhang, Linzhang Li, Chenmian Deng, Bingjun Wang, Binquan Gu and Zhengwu Dai
Heat pumps with water as heat exchange medium applied in greenhouse heating have not been used for vegetable seedling cultivation. In this work, a multi-connected direct expansion capillary radiation heat pump (MDCRHP) was designed for vegetable seedling...
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