Low Energy Cooling for Sustainable Buildings provides a complete overview of low energy cooling systems for buildings, covering a wide range of existing and emerging sustainable energy technologies in one comprehensive volume.
Inside the reader will find valuable insights into:
- the energy demand of residential and office buildings
- facades and summer performance of buildings
- passive cooling strategies
- geothermal cooling
- active thermal cooling technologies, including absorption cooling, desiccant cooling and new developments in low power chillers
- sustainable building operation using simulation
Low Energy Cooling for Sustainable Buildings is unique in including a large set of experimental results from years of monitoring actual building and energy plants, as well as detailed laboratory and simulation analyses.
Contents
1. Energy Demand of Buildings
- Residential Buildings
- Office Buildings
- Conclusions
2. Fa& ccedil;ades and Summer Performance of Buildings
- Review of Fa& ccedil;ade Systems and Energy Performance
- Experimental Results on Total Energy Transmittance
- Cooling Loads through Ventilation Gains
- Energy Production from Active Fa& ccedil;ades
- Conclusions on Fa& ccedil;ade Performance
3. Passive Cooling Strategies
- Building Description and Cooling Concepts
- Passive Night Ventilation Results
- Summary of Passive Cooling
4. Geothermal Cooling
- Earth Heat Exchanger Performance
5. Active Thermal Cooling Technologies
- Absorption Cooling
- Desiccant Cooling
- New Developments in Low-Power Chillers
6. Sustainable Building Operation Using Simulation
- Simulation of Solar Cooling Systems
- Online Simulation of Buildings
- Online Simulation of Renewable Energy Plants
Index
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