Advances toward a net-zero global building sector

D Ürge-Vorsatz, R Khosla, R Bernhardt… - Annual Review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
The building sector is responsible for 39% of process-related greenhouse gas emissions
globally, making net-or nearly-zero energy buildings pivotal for reaching climate neutrality …

Impact of natural and social environmental factors on building energy consumption: Based on bibliometrics

L Li, W Sun, W Hu, Y Sun - Journal of Building Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
Currently, building energy consumption is increasing, thereby exacerbating various issues,
including climate change and environmental pollution. However, current building energy …

Bilayer porous polymer for efficient passive building cooling

C Feng, P Yang, H Liu, M Mao, Y Liu, T Xue, J Fu… - Nano Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
Passive building cooling without any electricity input are highly desirable in pursuing low
energy consumption and environment protection. However, widespread adoption of existing …

Occupant-density-detection based energy efficient ventilation system: Prevention of infection transmission

J Wang, J Huang, Z Feng, SJ Cao, F Haghighat - Energy and Buildings, 2021 - Elsevier
Ventilation plays an important role in prevention and control of COVID-19 in enclosed indoor
environment and specially in high-occupant-density indoor environments (eg, underground …

Towards healthy and cost-effective indoor environment management in smart homes: A deep reinforcement learning approach

T Yang, L Zhao, W Li, J Wu, AY Zomaya - Applied Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
Indoor environmental quality is an important issue since people spend most of their time
indoors. This paper aims to develop an autonomous indoor environment management …

Development and application of linear ventilation and temperature models for indoor environmental prediction and HVAC systems control

C Ren, SJ Cao - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2019 - Elsevier
It has been of great importance to develop better control techniques for heating, ventilation
and air conditioning (HVAC) systems to provide occupancy driven energy and comfort …

Dilution-based evaluation of airborne infection risk-Thorough expansion of Wells-Riley model

S Zhang, Z Lin - Building and Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Evaluation of airborne infection risk with spatial and temporal resolutions is
indispensable for the design of proper interventions fighting infectious respiratory diseases …

A multi-agent based distributed approach for optimal control of multi-zone ventilation systems considering indoor air quality and energy use

W Li, S Wang - Applied Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
A trade-off problem exists in ventilation systems to ensure acceptable indoor air quality (IAQ)
with minimized energy use. It is often solved by the centralized optimization approach today …

A predictive data feature exploration-based air quality prediction approach

Y Zhang, Y Wang, M Gao, Q Ma, J Zhao, R Zhang… - IEEE …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years, people have been paying more and more attention to air quality because it
directly affects people's health and daily life. Effective air quality prediction has become one …

The effects of vertical farming on indoor carbon dioxide concentration and fresh air energy consumption in office buildings

Y Shao, J Li, Z Zhou, Z Hu, F Zhang, Y Cui… - Building and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Common pollutants in indoor air include carbon dioxide (CO 2), particulate matter (PM) and
volatile organic compounds (VOC). Apart from ventilation and dilution method, there are …