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 …

Towards sustainable, energy-efficient and healthy ventilation strategies in buildings: A review

B Chenari, JD Carrilho, MG Da Silva - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2016 - Elsevier
Energy demand has been increasing worldwide and the building sector represents a large
percentage of global energy consumption. Therefore, promoting energy efficiency in …

Optimal control of HVAC and window systems for natural ventilation through reinforcement learning

Y Chen, LK Norford, HW Samuelson, A Malkawi - Energy and Buildings, 2018 - Elsevier
Natural ventilation is a green building strategy that improves building energy efficiency,
indoor thermal environment, and air quality. However, in practice, it is not always clear when …

Deep clustering of Lagrangian trajectory for multi-task learning to energy saving in intelligent buildings using cooperative multi-agent

RZ Homod, HI Mohammed, A Abderrahmane, OA Alawi… - Applied Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
The intelligent buildings provided various incentives to get highly inefficient energy-saving
caused by the non-stationary building environments. In the presence of such dynamic …

Effect of different building envelope materials on thermal comfort and air-conditioning energy savings: A case study in Basra city, Iraq

RZ Homod, A Almusaed, A Almssad, MK Jaafar… - Journal of Energy …, 2021 - Elsevier
Recently, a numerous number of houses has been built using AAC materials, which
consume the most amount of energy in the building sector by Heating, ventilation, and air …

Achieving natural ventilation potential in practice: Control schemes and levels of automation

Y Chen, Z Tong, W Wu, H Samuelson, A Malkawi… - Applied energy, 2019 - Elsevier
A major challenge to fully achieve the natural ventilation (NV) potential in green buildings is
the control and coordination of windows and the HVAC system. Three main types of control …

Dynamics analysis of a novel hybrid deep clustering for unsupervised learning by reinforcement of multi-agent to energy saving in intelligent buildings

RZ Homod, H Togun, AK Hussein, FN Al-Mousawi… - Applied Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
The heating, ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC) systems energy demand can be
reduced by manipulating indoor conditions within the comfort range, which relates to control …

An overview of energy retrofit actions feasibility on Italian historical buildings

A Galatioto, G Ciulla, R Ricciu - Energy, 2017 - Elsevier
Italian energy policy has determined important keystones in building energy efficiency
regulations and their application throughout the country. However, there is still much work to …

Natural ventilation systems in 21st-century for near zero energy school buildings

M Gil-Baez, Á Barrios-Padura, M Molina-Huelva… - Energy, 2017 - Elsevier
Recently built school buildings present an increased air-tightness and have adopted
mechanical ventilation systems, operating several hours daily to achieve adequate Indoor …

Evaluation of energy-saving potential for optimal time response of HVAC control system in smart buildings

RZ Homod, KS Gaeid, SM Dawood, A Hatami… - Applied Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
In some fields, such as the semiconductor manufacturing process, museum, pharmaceutical,
and medicine manufacturing industry, the HVAC system needs a very fast response time to …