Sustainability in Energy and Buildings

by Howlett, Robert J.; Jain, Lakhmi C.; Lee, Shaun H.

• ISBN13: 9783642034534
• ISBN10: 3642034535
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-12-04
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

This volume represents the proceedings of the First International Conference on Sustainability in Energy and Buildings, SEB'09, held in the City of Brighton and Hove in the United Kingdom, organized by KES International with the assistance of the World Renewable Energy Congress / Network, and hosted by the University of Brighton. KES International is a knowledge transfer organization, which for over a decade has provided high-quality conference events and publishing opportunities for researchers in the area of Knowledge Based and Intelligent information and Engineering Systems. KES International is a community consisting of several thousand research scientists and engineers who participate in KES activities. Now KES is starting to make a contribution in the area of Sustainability and Renewable Energy with this first conference in a series dedicated to renewable energy and its application to domestic and other buildings. In addition to featuring papers from a range of Renewable Energy and Sustainability related topics, SEB'09 was intended to explore two innovative themes: the application of intelligent sensing, control, optimization and modeling techniques to sustainability; the technology of sustainable buildings. This volume contains 43 papers selected from a much larger number of submissions after reviews by experts in the field. The papers are grouped in the themes under which they were presented, namely Smart Sustainability, Solar and Wind Energy, Technologies for Sustainable Buildings, Clean and Renewable Energy, Engineering Intelligence and Energy Technologies, Building Energy Efficiency and Performance and Novel Techniques for Energy Efficiency.We believe these proceedings will form a record of recent research results, useful for engineers, students, professionals, managers and many others working in this leading-edge field.

Table of Contents

Smart Sustainable Systems
Smart Monitoring of Wind Turbines Using Neural Networks	p. 1
SMART Buildings: Intelligent Software Agents Building Occupants Leading the Energy Systems	p. 9
Solar Energy Harvesting for ZigBee Electronics	p. 19
Multi-agent Systems Technology for Composite Decision Making in Complex Systems	p. 29
Network-Enabled Intelligent Photovoltaic Arrays	p. 39
Design Ontology for Comfort Systems and Energy Infrastructures: Flexergy	p. 49
Solar and Wind Energy
An Innovative Building-Integrated Solar-Air Collector: Presentation and First Results	p. 59
Development and Strategies of Building Integrated Wind Turbines in China	p. 71
Missing Data Interpolation of Power Generation for Photovoltaic System	p. 79
Development of Short-Term Prediction System for Wind Power Generation Based on Multiple Observation Points	p. 89
Electricity Supply to a Remote Village Using Grid-Connected Wind Generators	p. 99
The Role of Photovoltaics in Reducing Carbon Emissions in Domestic Properties	p. 107
Armature and Field Controlled DC Motor Based Wind Turbine Emulation for Wind Energy Conversion Systems Operating over a Wide Range of Wind Velocity	p. 117
Technologies for Sustainable Buildings
Utilization of Fly-Ash Products from Biomass Co-combustion and Zeolite 13X for Building Energy Conservations	p. 127
The Effect of Metal Ions on Calcium Carbonate Precipitation and Scale Formation	p. 137
Lateral Stability of Prefabricated Straw Bale Housing	p. 147
Monitoring of the Moisture Content of Straw Bale Walls	p. 155
An Evaluation of Environmental and Economic Performance of Sustainable Building Technologies for Apartment Houses in Korea	p. 165
Managing Change in Domestic Renewable Energy Schemes	p. 175
Clean and Renewable Energy Technology
Optimum Energy Management of a Photovoltaic Water Pumping System	p. 187
Diagnosis by Fault Signature Analysis Applied to Wind Energy	p. 199
A Novel Self-organizing Neural Technique for Wind Speed Mapping	p. 209
Integral Fuzzy Control for Photovoltaic Power Systems	p. 219
MACSyME: Modelling, Analysis and Control for Systems with Multiple Energy Sources	p. 229
Structural Analysis for Fault Detection and Isolation in Fuel Cell Stack System	p. 239
Engineering Intelligence and Energy-Technologies
Efficiency Analysis of Cross-Flow Plate Heat Exchanger for Indirect Evaporative Cooling	p. 255
Thermal Work Condition Analysis of Teaching Building Heating Network in Winter Vacation with User Regulation	p. 265
Integrated Building Management Systems for Sustainable Technologies: Design Aspiration and Operational Shortcoming	p. 275
Smart Use of Knowledge: A Case Study of Constructing Decisional DNA on Renewable Energy	p. 281
A Study of Photo physical Properties of End Polymeric Material	p. 291
Renewable Energy Source Emulator	p. 297
Building Energy Efficiency and Performance
Geothermal Active Building Concept	p. 305
Heating Supply in Kazakhstan: Concept-Simulation-Comparison	p. 315
Towards a More Holistic and Complementary Approach to Modelling Energy Consumption in Buildings	p. 325
Energy Consumption in the Greek Hotel Sector: The Influence of Various Factors on Hotels' Carbon Footprints under the Implementation of the EU and Greek Legislative Framework	p. 339
Investigating the Applicability of Different Thermal Comfort Models in Kuwait Classrooms Operated in Hybrid Air-Conditioning Mode	p. 347
Water and Energy Efficient Showers	p. 357
Novel Techniques for Energy Efficiency
Research of Solar-Kang Heating Systems Design for Rural House in Cold Areas of China	p. 369
Research on Energy-Efficient Exterior Walls of Rural Housing in Northern China	p. 379
Family Thermal Performance Analysis Based on Household Metering	p. 387
The Investigation and Analysis of Indoor Temperature Desire of Building Users in Harbin	p. 395
Simulated Performance of Earthtube for Cooling of Office Buildings in the Southeast of UK	p. 403
Study on a Novel Hybrid Desiccant Dehumidification and Air Conditioning System	p. 413
Author Index	p. 423
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