Indoor Environment and Sustainable Building – serie

This book explores the theoretical background and provides an experimental analysis of using natural energy resources in sustainable building design.

This book explores the theoretical background and provides an experimental analysis of using natural energy resources in sustainable building design.

This book provides a comprehensive exploration of solar radiation modeling and its applications in building energy efficiency, offering readers practical tools to reduce energy consumption while maximizing renewable energy use. It introduces innovative models, including anisotropic diffuse radiation methods, haze-corrected frameworks, and photothermal integration approaches, supported by extensive data validation and advanced computational techniques. Special features such as clear illustrations, comparative analyses, and case-based evaluations bridge theory and engineering practice. The book also examines real-world challenges, from the effects of dust and rainfall on photovoltaic performance to the impact of air pollution on solar energy utilization. Readers will gain both theoretical understanding and practical strategies for optimizing solar applications in building design and renewable energy systems. It will appeal to graduate students, researchers, architects, engineers, and professionals engaged in solar energy and building performance optimization.

This book introduces the intelligent control technology of heating ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) water system in detail, studying its thermal distribution characteristics and optimal control methods combining the nonlinearity, strong coupling and delay characteristics to improve the overall operation and maintenance level as well as the energy efficiency of HVAC water system. Intelligent control technology of HVAC water systems involves various fields such as electrical, mechanical, environmental and civil engineering. The book establishes a basic research framework for this topic using a sub-total approach, emphasizing the importance of thermodynamic properties and the significant influence of nonlinear properties in the optimal control of the system. This book is intended for undergraduate and postgraduate students interested in automated control of HVAC water systems, researchers investigating methods for system energy conservation and optimization and design engineers working on intelligent operation and maintenance of HVAC water system.

Not simply introducing the research on the acoustic environment or noise level of indoor building, the book considers the differences in the function of buildings and the perception of acoustic environment, as well as the relationship between sound quality and health and behavior.

This book investigates the creation of healthy and thermally comfortable built environments in a low-carbon manner with advanced air distribution, i.e., stratum ventilation. Stratum ventilation efficiently supplies conditioned and clean air to the head level of occupants for thermal comfort and inhaled air quality and largely reduces energy consumption and CO2 emission, e.g., by 44% and 32%, respectively, compared with the conventional air distribution method. This book provides the working principles, performance evaluations methods, design methods, operation methods, and different application scenarios (particularly highlighting airborne infection risk control of respiratory diseases and integrated application with renewable energy) of stratum ventilation, to provide theoretical understandings and technical guidelines of stratum ventilation. The book is intended for undergraduate and graduate students, researchers, and engineers who are interested in cutting-edge technologies of livable and sustainable built environments.

This book first describes fundamental knowledge on human thermal comfort, adaptive thermal comfort, thermal comfort in sleeping environments, modeling of human thermal comfort, and thermal comfort assessment using human trials.