Hybrid system controls of natural ventilation and HVAC in mixed-mode buildings: A comprehensive review

Y Peng, Y Lei, ZD Tekler, N Antanuri, SK Lau… - Energy and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Mixed-mode buildings utilise a combination of natural ventilation from operable building
envelopes and mechanical systems to realise climate-friendly ventilation and cooling. The …

[HTML][HTML] Potential and practical management of hybrid ventilation in buildings

LL Gomis, M Fiorentini, D Daly - Energy and Buildings, 2021 - Elsevier
Ventilative cooling technologies have the potential to be an effective measure to reduce
buildings energy consumption, by meeting some or all of the cooling requirement of a …

From simulation to monitoring: Evaluating the potential of mixed-mode ventilation (MMV) systems for integrating natural ventilation in office buildings through a …

JC Salcido, AA Raheem, RRA Issa - Energy and Buildings, 2016 - Elsevier
The energy required to maintain comfortable indoor environmental conditions is a significant
percentage (35%) of the overall energy consumption in office buildings. In the modern-day …

Development and evaluation of a comfort-oriented control strategy for thermal management of mixed-mode ventilated buildings

M Fiorentini, G Serale, G Kokogiannakis… - Energy and …, 2019 - Elsevier
The paper presents the development, implementation and performance investigation via
simulations and experiments of a comfort-oriented control strategy for natural ventilation and …

Experimental study of the thermal performance of a large institutional building with mixed-mode cooling and hybrid ventilation

P Karava, AK Athienitis, T Stathopoulos… - Building and …, 2012 - Elsevier
The paper explores mixed-mode cooling strategies in buildings with hybrid ventilation and
high levels of exposed thermal mass and presents data collected over an extensive period …

Naturally ventilated and mixed-mode buildings—Part II: Optimal control

HC Spindler, LK Norford - Building and Environment, 2009 - Elsevier
Natural ventilation and a combination of natural ventilation and fan-assisted cooling, in lieu
of or as a supplement to air conditioning, offer significant reductions in building energy use …

Predicting air temperatures in a naturally ventilated nearly zero energy building: Calibration, validation, analysis and approaches

A O'Donovan, PD O'Sullivan, MD Murphy - Applied Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
As the cooling energy demand in buildings is set to increase dramatically in the future, the
exploitation of passive solutions like natural ventilation could prove vital in reducing the …

Analysis and optimization of HVAC control systems based on energy and performance considerations for smart buildings

RZ Homod - Renewable Energy, 2018 - Elsevier
The most distinctive properties of the HVAC systems are their large-scale nonlinear systems
that contain large thermal inertia, time variability, nonlinear constraints, uncertain …

A review on optimized control systems for building energy and comfort management of smart sustainable buildings

PH Shaikh, NBM Nor, P Nallagownden… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2014 - Elsevier
Buildings all around the world consume a significant amount of energy, which is more or
less one-third of the total primary energy resources. This has raised concerns over energy …

A review of occupant control on natural ventilation

A Roetzel, A Tsangrassoulis, U Dietrich… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2010 - Elsevier
According to IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), the largest use of energy
in commercial buildings is space heating in colder climates and air conditioning in hot …