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Books > Professional & Technical > Civil engineering, surveying & building > Building construction & materials > Heating, lighting, ventilation
This leading-edge volume on advances in photovoltaic technology
features diverse contributions from experts in every major
geographic PV market. It examines emerging applications such as
electricity grid load-balancing and demand- response, PV storage
systems, photovoltaic/thermal solar collectors and carbon-offset in
buildings. Engineers, researchers, developers and students alike
will find new avenues for exploration and fresh insights into this
continually evolving field. Highlights the most recent advances in
Photovoltaics, from Next-Gen Storage Systems to Bifacial PV/T Solar
Collectors; Provides expert insights on the recent evolution and
near future of PV markets around the globe; Covers applications
from grid-tied storage and power generation to green buildings.
This book presents novel design principles and technologies for
dynamic isolation based on experimental studies. These approaches
have now become the local standard in Beijing and are currently
being promoted for use nationwide. Further, the book provides
details of measures and guidelines for the design process.
Departing from the traditional understanding that isolation wards
should be designed with high negative pressure, airtight doors and
fresh air, it establishes the basis for designing biological clean
rooms, including isolation wards, using a simple and convenient
scientific approach. This book is intended for designers,
engineers, researchers, hospital management staff and graduate
students in heating ventilation air conditioning (HVAC), air
cleaning technologies and related areas.
In the climate-controlled buildings of today, moisture problems affect not only the useable life expectancy of the structure, but the comfort and health of the occupants. This reference is the first to apply up-to-date moisture control and treatment techniques in a problem/solution format. Opening with an introductory explanation of the nature and causes of mold, mildew, and condensation, the book gives specific advice on heated, cooled, and combination environments, plus a short course in the dynamics of moisture movement within buildings. Other invaluable coverage includes: - clear, detailed recommended practices for all United States climates
- practices for cooling as well as heating climates (often, heating climate solutions are applied in cooling climates, where problems and solutions are completely different)
- an overall, systematic view of moisture problems—including how mechanical systems and occupant lifestyles can create and also resolve moisture problems
- actual case studies of buildings with moisture problems that illustrate the principles and practices presented in the book
This detailed, no-nonsense exploration of moisture cause and effect—as well as its protection and remediation—will expand readers’ knowledge on this crucial subject. Moisture Control Handbook will be welcomed by building contractors, architects, mechanical engineers, building science researchers, building product manufacturers, homeowners, and small commercial building owners.
Contemporary cities face phenomenal risks, and they face
particularly high levels of mounting social and environmental
risks, including social polarization, urban conflicts, riots,
terror, and climate change threats. This book suggests that climate
change and its resulting uncertainties challenge the concepts,
procedures, and scope of conventional approaches to planning,
creating a need to rethink and revise current planning methods.
Therefore, this book suggests a paradigm shift in our thinking,
interrogation, and planning of our cities. Based on the
contemporary conditions of risk at cities, this book conceptualizes
the risk city as a construct of three interlinked concepts of risk,
trust, and practice. It is a construct of risk and its new evolving
conditions and knowledge of uncertainties stem from climate change
and other risks and uncertainties. As a construct of practices, the
risk city produces social and political institutional framework and
promotes practices accordingly in order to reduce risk and risk
possibilities and to increase trust. In light of the complex
challenges and risks to the human habitat that have emerged in
recent years, many cities have prepared various types of plans
aimed at addressing the challenges posed by climate change.
Nonetheless, despite the importance of these plans and the major
public resources invested in their formulation, we still know
little about them and have yet to begin studying them and assessing
their contributions . From the innovative perspective of the risk
city, this book asks critical questions about the nature, vision,
practices, and potential impact of the recent climate
change-oriented plans. What kinds of risks do they attempt to
address, what types of practices do they institute, and what types
of approaches do they apply? Do they adequately address the risks
and uncertainties posed? How do they contribute to the worldwide
effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions? This book uses the
methodologically innovative Risk City framework to examine the
nature, vision, outcomes, practices, and impact of these crucial
plans, as well as their contribution to the resilience of our
cities and to global efforts toward reducing greenhouse gas
emissions.
This book investigates the latest modeling and control technologies
in the context of air-conditioning systems. Firstly, it introduces
the state-space method for developing dynamic models of all
components in a central air-conditioning system. The models are
primarily nonlinear and based on the fundamental principle of
energy and mass conservation, and are transformed into state-space
form through linearization. The book goes on to describe and
discuss the state-space models with the help of graph theory and
the structure-matrix theory. Subsequently, virtual sensor
calibration and virtual sensing methods (which are very useful for
real system control) are illustrated together with a case study.
Model-based predictive control and state-space feedback control are
applied to air-conditioning systems to yield better local control,
while the air-side synergic control scheme and a global
optimization strategy based on the decomposition-coordination
method are developed so as to achieve energy conservation in the
central air-conditioning system. Lastly, control strategies for VAV
systems including total air volume control and trim & response
static pressure control are investigated in practice.
Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Heating,
Ventilation and Air Conditioning is based on the 8th International
Symposium of the same name (ISHVAC2013), which took place in
Xi’an on October 19-21, 2013. The conference series was initiated
at Tsinghua University in 1991 and has since become the premier
international HVAC conference initiated in China, playing a
significant part in the development of HVAC and indoor
environmental research and industry around the world. This
international conference provided an exclusive opportunity for
policy-makers, designers, researchers, engineers and managers to
share their experience. Considering the recent attention on
building energy consumption and indoor environments, ISHVAC2013
provided a global platform for discussing recent research on and
developments in different aspects of HVAC systems and components,
with a focus on building energy consumption, energy efficiency and
indoor environments. These categories span a broad range of topics,
and the proceedings provide readers with a good general overview of
recent advances in different aspects of HVAC systems and related
research. As such, they offer a unique resource for further
research and a valuable source of information for those interested
in the subject. The proceedings are intended for researchers,
engineers and graduate students in the fields of Heating,
Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC), indoor environments,
energy systems, and building information and management. Angui Li
works at Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology, Yingxin
Zhu works at Tsinghua University and Yuguo Li works at The
University of Hong Kong.
This book focuses on some of the most energy-consuming HVAC
systems; illuminating huge opportunities for energy savings in
buildings that operate with these systems. The main discussion is
on, cutting-edge decision making approaches, and algorithms in:
decision making under uncertainty, genetic algorithms, fuzzy logic,
artificial neural networks, agent based modeling, and game theory.
These methods are applied to HVAC systems, in order to help
designers select the best options among the many available pathways
for designing and the building of HVAC systems and applications.
The discussion further evolves to depict how the buildings of the
future can incorporate these advanced decision-making algorithms to
become autonomous and truly 'smart'.
This book presents a systematic study on the air balancing
technologies in heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC)
systems. Several modern air balancing methods, including advanced
control-based air balancing, data-driven-based air balancing, and
energy-saving-oriented air balancing, are introduced in this book
to balance the air duct system. Furthermore, this book provides
clear instructions for both HVAC designers and engineers, as well
as researchers, on how to design and balance duct systems for
improved performance and energy efficiency.
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