Sustainability in Energy and Buildings Proceedings of the International Conference in Sustainability in Energy and Buildings (SEB'09) - Lee, Shaun H.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2009)
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.
Keywords: Energy policy; Energy and state; Thermodynamics; Heat engineering; Heat transfer; Mass transfer; Civil engineering; Renewable energy resources; Sustainable development; Environmental monitoring; Energy Policy, Economics and Management; Engineering Thermodynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer; Civil Engineering; Renewable and Green Energy; Sustainable Development; Monitoring/Environmental Analysis