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Low Energy Cooling for Sustainable Buildings
John Wiley and Sons Ltd, March 2009, Pages: 276
The book presents a broad overview on low energy cooling technologies for energy efficient buildings. The energy demand of residential and office buildings is analysed first, complete with experimental results on fasçades and summer performances. Solutions for buildings whose cooling energy demand are low are considered in the first half of the book. These include the following: passive cooling strategies, such as passive night ventilations (explored with a simulation of passive cooling potential); geothermal heat exchangers for cooling, accessed in chapter four; and active thermal cooling technologies (including absorption and desiccant cooling), with monitoring results detailed in chapter five. These solutions are discussed as possible replacements for electrically powered compression chillers. The next chapter is larger, detailing solutions for cooling systems that are required for high cooling loads. Chapter six covers sustainable building operation using simulation; of solar cooling systems, online simulation of buildings and renewable energy plants. The potential for rational energy use through optimization of operational performance is shown.
This long-awaited reference guide 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. An excellent data source on cooling performance, such as building loads or solar thermal chiller efficiencies, it is essential reading for building services and renewable energy engineers and researchers covering sustainable design. The book 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. These demonstrate which systems really work in buildings, what the real costs are and how operation can be optimized crucial information for planners, builders and architects to gain confidence in applying new technologies in the building sector.
Inside you 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
Supporting case study material makes this a useful text for senior undergraduate students on renewable and sustainable energy courses. Practical and informative, it is the best up-to-date volume on the important and rapidly growing area of cooling.
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