Low Energy Cooling for Sustainable Buildings - Couverture rigide

Eicker, Ursula

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 047069744X ISBN 13 : 9780470697443

Editeur : Wiley–Blackwell, 2009

Synopsis

Book by Eicker Ursula

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

Ursula Eicker is a physicist who carries out international research projects on solar cooling, heating, electricity production and building energy efficiency at the University of Applied Sciences in Stuttgart. She obtained her PhD in amorphous silicon thin–film solar cells from Heriot–Watt University in Edinburgh and then worked on the process development of large–scale amorphous silicon modules in France. She continued her research in photovoltaic system technology at the Centre for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research in Stuttgart. She set up the Solar Energy and Building Physics Research Group in Stuttgart in 1993. Her current research emphasis is on the development and implementation of active solar thermal cooling technologies, low–energy buildings and sustainable communities, control strategies and simulation technology, heat transfer in fac¸ades, etc. Since 2002 she has been the scientific director of the research centre on sustainable energy technologies (zafh.net) in BadenW¨urttemberg. She also heads the Institute of Applied Research of the University of Applied Sciences in Stuttgart, where building physicists, geoinformation scientists, mathematicians, civil engineers and architects cooperate. During the last 10 years Professor Eicker has coordinated numerous research projects on sustainable communities with renewable energy systems and highly efficient buildings. The largest projects include the European Integrated POLYCITY Project, a demonstration project on sustainable buildings and systems in Germany, Italy and Spain, and the European PhD school CITYNET on information system design for sustainable communities.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

This long–awaited reference guide provides a complete overview oflow energy cooling systems for buildings, covering a wide range ofexisting and emerging sustainable energy technologies in onecomprehensive volume. An excellent data source on coolingperformance, such as building loads or solar thermal chillerefficiencies, it is essential reading for building services andrenewable energy engineers and researchers covering sustainabledesign.

The book is unique in including a large set of experimentalresults from years of monitoring actual building and energy plants,as well as detailed laboratory and simulation analyses.  These demonstrate which systems really work in buildings, what thereal costs are and how operation can be optimized crucialinformation for planners, builders and architects to gainconfidence in applying new technologies in the building sector.

Inside you will find valuable insights into:

• the energy demand of residential and office buildings;
• facades and summer performance of buildings;
• passive cooling strategies;
• geothermal cooling;
• active thermal cooling technologies, including absorptioncooling, desiccant cooling and new developments in low powerchillers;
• sustainable building operation using simulation.

Supporting case study material makes this a useful text forsenior undergraduate students on renewable and sustainable energycourses. Practical and informative, it is the best up–to–datevolume on the important and rapidly growing area of cooling.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Wiley–Blackwell
• Date d'édition: 2009
• ISBN 10: 047069744X
• ISBN 13: 9780470697443
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 276