Sustainability in Energy and Buildings (eBook)

Session A : Smart Sustainable Systems.- Smart Monitoring of Wind Turbines Using Neural Networks.- SMART Buildings: Intelligent Software Agents.- Solar Energy Harvesting for ZigBee Electronics.- Multi-Agent Systems Technology for Composite Decision Making in Complex Systems.- Network-Enabled Intelligent Photovoltaic Arrays.- Design Ontology for Comfort Systems and Energy Infrastructures: Flexergy.- Session B : Solar and Wind Energy.- An Innovative Building-Integrated Solar-Air Collector: Presentation and First Results.- Development and Strategies of Building Integrated Wind Turbines in China.- Missing Data Interpolation of Power Generation for Photovoltaic System.- Development of Short-Term Prediction System for Wind Power Generation Based on Multiple Observation Points.- Electricity Supply to a Remote Village Using Grid-Connected Wind Generators.- The Role of Photovoltaics in Reducing Carbon Emissions in Domestic Properties.- Armature and Field Controlled DC Motor Based Wind Turbine Emulation for Wind Energy Conversion Systems Operating over a Wide Range of Wind Velocity.- Session C : Technologies for Sustainable Buildings.- Utilization of Fly-Ash Products from Biomass Co-combustion and Zeolite 13X for Building Energy Conservations.- The Effect of Metal Ions on Calcium Carbonate Precipitation and Scale Formation.- Lateral Stability of Prefabricated Straw Bale Housing.- Monitoring of the Moisture Content of Straw Bale Walls.- An Evaluation of Environmental and Economic Performance of Sustainable Building Technologies for Apartment Houses in Korea.- Managing Change in Domestic Renewable Energy Schemes.- Session D : Clean and Renewable Energy Technology.- Optimum Energy Management of a Photovoltaic Water Pumping System.- Diagnosis by Fault Signature Analysis Applied to Wind Energy.- A Novel Self-organizing Neural Technique for Wind Speed Mapping.- Integral Fuzzy Control for Photovoltaic Power Systems.- MACSyME: Modelling, Analysis and Control for Systems with Multiple Energy Sources.- Structural Analysis for Fault Detection and Isolation in Fuel Cell Stack System.- Session E : Engineering Intelligence and Energy Technologies.- Efficiency Analysis of Cross-Flow Plate Heat Exchanger for Indirect Evaporative Cooling.- Thermal Work Condition Analysis of Teaching Building Heating Network in Winter Vacation with User Regulation.- Integrated Building Management Systems for Sustainable Technologies: Design Aspiration and Operational Shortcoming.- Smart Use of Knowledge: A Case Study of Constructing Decisional DNA on Renewable Energy.- A Study of Photo physical Properties of End Polymeric Material.- Renewable Energy Source Emulator.- Session F : Building Energy Efficiency and Performance.- Geothermal Active Building Concept.- Heating Supply in Kazakhstan: Concept - Simulation - Comparison.- Towards a More Holistic and Complementary Approach to Modelling Energy Consumption in Buildings.- 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.- Investigating the Applicability of Different Thermal Comfort Models in Kuwait Classrooms Operated in Hybrid Air-Conditioning Mode.- Water and Energy Efficient Showers.- Session G : Novel Techniques for Energy Efficiency.- Research of Solar-Kang Heating Systems Design for Rural House in Cold Areas of China.- Research on Energy-Efficient Exterior Walls of Rural Housing in Northern China.- Family Thermal Performance Analysis Based on Household Metering.- The Investigation and Analysis of Indoor Temperature Desire of Building Users in Harbin.- Simulated Performance of Earthtube for Cooling of Office Buildings in the Southeast of UK.- Study on a Novel Hybrid Desiccant Dehumidification and Air Conditioning System.