Recent Developments and Future Perspectives in Heating, Ventilation and Air-Conditioning Systems of Buildings
A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Building Energy, Physics, Environment, and Systems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2024 | Viewed by 117
Special Issue Editor
Interests: evaporative cooling; building energy efficiency; district energy supply; gas supply
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Heating, Ventilation, and Air-Conditioning (HVAC) systems are crucial to achieve building energy efficiency and sustainability, human comfort, and welfare. The boom in the application of emerging technologies, such as machine learning, artificial intelligence, digital twins, etc., and the growing emphasis on natural cooling driven by the demand for concentrated and large-scale energy use, as represented by data centers, have resulted in increased amounts of research being conducted in this field. The exploration of cooling and heating source technology, terminal conditioning technology, etc., that promote the operation and maintenance practices of HVAC systems continues to deepen. All these factors have motivated numerous researchers to devote themselves to it.
This Special Issue aims to provide a platform for reporting the latest research progress in HVAC systems and evaluating the application of relevant theories and advanced technologies from a future perspective. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- HVAC system analysis;
- Simulation and optimization of HVAC systems;
- Advanced forecasting technologies for heating and cooling load and energy consumption;
- Indoor thermal comfort and thermal adaptation;
- IAQ (Indoor Air Quality);
- Heat pump technology;
- Dehumidification technology;
- Data center cooling;
- Evaporative cooling;
- BIPVs (Building-Integrated Photovoltaics);
- Low- or zero-carbon building energy systems;
- Integrated energy systems for buildings;
- Practices for energy efficiency of HVAC systems.
Prof. Dr. Peng Xu
Guest Editor
Manuscript Submission Information
Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.
Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Buildings is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.
Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.
Keywords
- HVAC system and equipment
- building energy efficiency
- simulation and HVAC system optimization
- thermal comfort and indoor environment quality
- building energy consumption and load forecasting
- renewable energy in buildings
- data center cooling
- artificial intelligence (AI) applications in HVAC systems
