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  • Intelligent Envelopes for High-Performance Buildings

    Design and Strategy

    by Guedi Capeluto, Carlos Ernesto Ochoa ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    This book presents a series of significant methods and examples for the design of sustainable intelligent facades in a variety of contexts. Emphasis is placed on how intelligence has been applied for successful energy-saving efforts in the planning of building envelopes.Readers will find essential information on the core principles involved in designing, calculating and organizing intelligent ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • Nearly Zero Energy Building Refurbishment

    A Multidisciplinary Approach

    Edited by Fernando Pacheco Torgal, Marina Mistretta, Claes G. Granqvist, Luisa F. Cabeza, Artūras Kaklauskas ...
    The recast of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) was adopted by the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union on 19 May 2010. For new buildings, the recast fixes 2020 as the deadline for all new buildings to be “nearly zero energy” (and even sooner for public buildings – by the end of 2018). This book gives practitioner an important tool to tackle the challenges ... Read more

    $188.99 USD

  • Cost Optimal and Nearly Zero-Energy Buildings (nZEB)

    Definitions, Calculation Principles and Case Studies

    Edited by Jarek Kurnitski ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    Cost optimal and nearly zero energy performance levels are principles initiated by the European Union’s (EU) Energy Performance of Buildings Directive which was recast in 2010. These will be major drivers in the construction sector in the next few years, because all new buildings in the EU from 2021 onwards are expected to be nearly zero energy buildings (nZEB).This book introduces the technical ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Smart-ECO Buildings towards 2020/2030

    Innovative Technologies for Resource Efficient Buildings

    by Giuliana Iannaccone, Marco Imperadori, Gabriele Masera ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    The book aims to provide a basis for design and construction of resource-efficient buildings. The main concepts follow the vision of a European Sustainable Building as defined in the 2-years Smart-ECO research project funded by European Commission under the Sixth Framework Program. The focus is concentrated on innovations enabling the building sector to meet the requirements originating from the ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Spain’s Photovoltaic Revolution

    The Energy Return on Investment

    by Pedro A. Prieto, Charles A. S. Hall ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    The Energy Return on Energy Invested (EROI or EROEI) is the amount of energy acquired from a particular energy source divided by the energy expended, or invested, in obtaining that energy. EROI is an essential and seemingly simple measure of the usable energy or “energy profit” from the exploitation of an energy source, but it is not so easy to determine all of the energy expenditures that should ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Reset Control Systems

    by Alfonso Baños, Antonio Barreiro ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    Reset Control Systems addresses the analysis for reset control treating both its basic form, and some useful variations of the reset action and reset condition. The issues regarding reset control – concepts and motivation; analysis tools; and the application of design methodologies to real-world examples – are given thorough coverage.The text opens with a historical perspective which moves from ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Energy Efficient Thermal Management of Data Centers

    Edited by Yogendra Joshi, Pramod Kumar ...
    Energy Efficient Thermal Management of Data Centers examines energy flow in today's data centers. Particular focus is given to the state-of-the-art thermal management and thermal design approaches now being implemented across the multiple length scales involved. The impact of future trends in information technology hardware, and emerging software paradigms such as cloud computing and ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

  • Wind Towers

    Architecture, Climate and Sustainability

    by Mehdi N. Bahadori, Ali Sayigh, Alireza Dehghani-sanij ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    This unique volume provides the only holistic treatment of wind towers, a core aspect of sustainable architecture in hot, arid climates. The authors explain how traditional incarnations of these structures provide significant decreases in energy consumption through their use of renewable wind resources to cool buildings and water storage facilities. Beginning with the underlying scientific ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Energy Performance of Buildings

    Energy Efficiency and Built Environment in Temperate Climates

    Edited by Olatz Irulegi, Mattheos Santamouris, Sofia-Natalia Boemi ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    This book analyzes the trends and technologies of green and energy efficient building, identifying strategies for implementing energy savings and enabling the use of renewable resources in residential, commercial, healthcare and educational building sectors. The authors focus on best practices in temperate climates, providing in-depth coverage of urban heat island, climate change and fuel poverty ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • House Rating Schemes

    From Energy to Comfort Base

    by Maria Kordjamshidi ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    "House Rating Schemes" provides information to students, architects and researchers in the field of the built environment. It reviews current House Rating Schemes (HRS) used in different countries and investigates how these schemes assess the thermal performance of a house. It challenges the way that these schemes assess building energy efficiency and their inability to evaluate free running ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Passive Methods as a Solution for Improving Indoor Environments

    by José A. Orosa, Armando C. Oliveira ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    There are many aspects to consider when evaluating or improving an indoor environment; thermal comfort, energy saving, preservation of materials, hygiene and health are all key aspects which can be improved by passive methods of environmental control. Passive Methods as a Solution for Improving Indoor Environments endeavours to fill the lack of analysis in this area by using over ten years of ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Reduced Modelling of Planar Fuel Cells

    Spatial Smoothing and Asymptotic Reduction

    by Zhongjie He, Hua Li, Karl Erik Birgersson ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    This book focuses on novel reduced cell and stack models for proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) and planar solid oxide fuel cells (P-SOFCs) that serve to reduce the computational cost by two orders of magnitude or more with desired numerical accuracy, while capturing both the average properties and the variability of the dependent variables in the 3D counterparts. The information ... Read more

    $89.09 USD