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Sustainable Built Environment: Advanced Ventilation and Energy Efficient Technologies
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Sustainable Built Environment: Advanced Ventilation and Energy Efficient Technologies

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: closed (20 December 2019) | Viewed by 7892

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Zhenjun Ma

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Sustainable Buildings Research Centre, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia
Interests: building big data analytics; building energy efficiency; HVAC control and optimization; desiccant cooling systems; thermal energy storage using phase change materials; solar photovoltaic thermal collectors
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Prof. Dr. Shugang Wang

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Faculty of Infrastructure Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China
Interests: multiscale modeling of heat and mass transfer in a built environment; ventilation techniques and optimization in underground space; porous media reconstruction and application to energy storage with phase changes or adsorption; air cycle heat pump technologies
Dr. Jihong Wang

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Faculty of Infrastructure Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China
Interests: sustainable ventilation techniques in buildings; multiphase flow dynamics in cooling systems

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The building sector consumes a significant amount of global energy usage, and energy consumption in buildings will continuously increase in forthcoming years due to the rapid increase in the living standards and the wide deployment of air conditioning systems, as well as climate change. Improving energy efficiency in buildings and creating a sustainable and healthy built environment are essential to reducing global energy usage, enabling the productivity and wellbeing of occupants, and enhancing national and international energy security.

This Special Issue invites researchers to contribute original research articles and review articles on innovative approaches and solutions towards the development of a sustainable built environment with a focus on advanced building ventilation solutions and building energy-efficient technologies. Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:

  • Advanced ventilation and HVAC technologies;
  • Energy storage;
  • Energy-efficient building design;
  • Existing building refurbishment;
  • Renewable energy in buildings; and
  • Data analytics for improved building performance.

Assoc. Prof. Zhenjun Ma
Prof. Shugang Wang
Dr. Jihong Wang
Guest Editors

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

  • energy efficiency
  • ventilation
  • built environment

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Heat Supply Comparison in a Single-Family House with Radiator and Floor Heating Systems
by Amir Vadiee, Ambrose Dodoo and Elaheh Jalilzadehazhari
Buildings 2020, 10(1), 5; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings10010005 - 30 Dec 2019
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Floor heating and radiators are two of the most common types of hydronic heating systems used for space heating in single-family houses in cold climate regions. Notwithstanding, there are few comparative studies on indoor temperature distribution and system cost evaluations for radiators and [...] Read more.
Floor heating and radiators are two of the most common types of hydronic heating systems used for space heating in single-family houses in cold climate regions. Notwithstanding, there are few comparative studies on indoor temperature distribution and system cost evaluations for radiators and floor heating. Furthermore, there are no aligned outcomes in terms of total heat supply for a single-family house with radiators or floor heating. In this study, the effect of building energy efficiency level and construction type, including flooring material, on the supply heating demand and transmission heat losses were studied for both radiator and floor heating systems. For this purpose, a single-family house located in Växjö, Sweden, was modeled as a case study. The heating demand was supplied with a district heating system with a similar supply temperature at 45 °C for both the radiator and floor heating system. A sensitivity analysis was also performed to assess the effect of flooring configurations on the annual supply heating demand for both conventional and passive versions of the case-study building. The results showed that the radiator-integrated building had a lower supply heating demand in comparison with the floor heating-integrated buildings. Based on the sensitivity studies, the flooring material did not have a significant influence on the supply heating demand and on the transmission heat losses in the case of the radiators. The supply heating demand was only reduced up to 3% if the flooring U-value was improved by 60%. The results also showed that refurbishment in a standard conventional building with a radiator heating system based on the passive criteria led to a 58% annual energy savings, while this amount for a building with a floor heating system was approximately 49%. Full article
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