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Advances in Energy Efficiency in Buildings

A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Science and Technology".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2024) | Viewed by 1468

Special Issue Editor

Prof. Dr. Young-Hum Cho

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School of Architecture, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan 38541, Republic of Korea
Interests: building commissioning; smart building; building energy simulation; building energy management system
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The Paris Agreement was concluded in 2015 in order to restrain problems such as global warming and energy resource depletion. Worldwide, various endeavors are being undertaken with the aim of reducing carbon emissions and becoming carbon neutral. In the building sector, interest in improving energy efficiency and saving energy is on the rise. The development and application of energy-saving methods are crucial in the stages of building design and construction, and the management, automation, and optimization of energy systems are vital in the stage of building operation. Recently, in the field of building energy, research on improving building energy efficiency using advanced technology such as artificial intelligence is being actively conducted. This Special Issue welcomes original research in the area of energy-efficient technology in buildings, smart and intelligent buildings, sustainable and net-zero energy buildings, building optimal control and operation, and building commissioning. Topics of this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following specific issues:

  • Building energy conversation and efficiency measure
  • Building energy audit, assessment and commissioning
  • Building energy management System(BEMS)
  • Building energy systems design, modeling and optimization
  • Building optimal control and operation
  • Occupancy comfort and indoor environmental quality
  • Heating, ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC) and renewable energy system
  • Machine and deep learning based control
  • Smart and virtual sensor
  • Fault detection diagnosis and calibration (FDD&C)

Prof. Dr. Young-Hum Cho
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • building energy conversation and efficiency measure
  • building energy audit, assessment and commissioning
  • building energy management system (BEMS)
  • building energy systems design, modeling and optimization
  • building optimal control and operation
  • occupancy comfort and indoor environmental quality
  • heating, ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC) and renewable energy system
  • machine and deep learning based control
  • smart and virtual sensor
  • fault detection diagnosis and calibration (FDD&C)

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Numerical Design and Analysis of Advanced Roof Systems in Architecture with Environmentally Friendly Low-Carbon Materials
by Faham Tahmasebinia, Wenxi Zeng, Bernadette Macaraniag and Krzysztof Skrzypkowski
Appl. Sci. 2024, 14(5), 2041; https://doi.org/10.3390/app14052041 - 29 Feb 2024
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This research explores the viability of bamboo as a green replacement for timber in building practices. Bamboo’s advantages lie in its renewability, sustainability, and resilience to disasters, despite possessing mechanical properties similar to timber. The study proposes using Finite Element Analysis (FEA) simulations, [...] Read more.
This research explores the viability of bamboo as a green replacement for timber in building practices. Bamboo’s advantages lie in its renewability, sustainability, and resilience to disasters, despite possessing mechanical properties similar to timber. The study proposes using Finite Element Analysis (FEA) simulations, a potent instrument for designing and analyzing intricate structures under varying loads. The research explicitly employs FEA simulations to examine the application of bamboo in complex rooftop systems, using two commercial 3D CAD software—Rhino7 and Strand7. Rhino7 is responsible for 3D model creation and the member’s division into minuscule elements, whereas Strand7 is used to assign material properties, establish boundary conditions, carry out simulations, and analyze the outcomes. This research includes case studies of bamboo grid-shell structures and implements the suggested methodology. The study’s objective is to augment the scarce engineering data and to analyze bamboo as a material and the impact it can have on construction. The study’s results underscore the potential of eco-friendly, low-carbon materials, such as bamboo, in the construction industry. It also illustrates the effectiveness of FEA simulation in analyzing elaborate structures. Full article
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Development of Virtual Sensor Based on LSTM-Autoencoder to Detect Faults in Supply Chilled Water Temperature Sensor
by San Jin, Ahmin Jang, Donghoon Lee, Sungjin Kim, Minjae Shin and Sung Lok Do
Appl. Sci. 2024, 14(3), 1113; https://doi.org/10.3390/app14031113 - 29 Jan 2024
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Supply chilled water temperature (SCWT) is an important variable for the efficient and stable operation of heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems. A precisely measured value ensured by the continuous reliability of the temperature sensor is essential for optimal control of an [...] Read more.
Supply chilled water temperature (SCWT) is an important variable for the efficient and stable operation of heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems. A precisely measured value ensured by the continuous reliability of the temperature sensor is essential for optimal control of an HVAC system because temperature sensor faults can affect the chiller operation and waste energy. Therefore, temperature sensor fault-detection strategies are imperative for maintaining a comfortable indoor thermal environment and ensuring the efficient and stable operation of HVAC systems. This study proposes a fault-detection method for an SCWT sensor using a virtual sensor based on a long short-term memory-autoencoder. The fault-detection performance is evaluated considering a case study under various sensor fault scenarios to evaluate changes in indoor thermal comfort and energy consumption after correcting sensor faults detected by the virtual sensor. The results verify excellent fault-detection performance in various fault scenarios (F-1 scores ranging from 0.9350 to 1.000). After correcting the SCWT fault, indoor thermal comfort is steadily maintained without additional energy consumption (indoor set-point temperature unmet hour reduced by a maximum of 105.7 hours, and energy consumption decreased by up to 1.8%). Full article
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