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Sustainability in Energy and Buildings: Proceedings of the International Conference in Sustainability in Energy and Buildings (SEB’09)

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This volume represents the proceedings of the First International Conference on Sustainability in Energy and Buildings, SEB’09, held in the City of Brighton and Hove in the United Kingdom, organised by KES International with the assistance of the World Renewable Energy Congress / Network, and hosted by the University of Brighton.

KES International is a knowledge transfer organisation, which for over a decade has provided high-quality conference events and publishing opportunities for researchers in the area of Knowledge Based and Intelligent information and Engineering Systems. KES International is a community consisting of several thousand research scientists and engineers who participate in KES activities. Now KES is starting to make a contribution in the area of Sustainability and Renewable Energy with this first conference in a series dedicated to renewable energy and its application to domestic and other buildings.

In addition to featuring papers from a range of Renewable Energy and Sustainability related topics, SEB’09 was intended to explore two innovative themes:-
- The application of intelligent sensing, control, optimisation and modelling techniques to sustainability;
- The technology of sustainable buildings.

This volume contains 43 papers selected from a much larger number of submissions after reviews by experts in the field. The papers are grouped in the themes under which they were presented, namely Smart Sustainability, Solar and Wind Energy, Technologies for Sustainable Buildings, Clean and Renewable Energy, Engineering Intelligence and Energy Technologies, Building Energy Efficiency and Performance and Novel Techniques for Energy Efficiency.

We believe these proceedings will form a record of recent research results, useful for engineers, students, professionals, managers and many others working in this leading-edge field.

Author(s): Jianping Xiang, Simon Watson, Yongqian Liu (auth.), Robert J. Howlett, Lakhmi C. Jain, Shaun H. Lee (eds.)
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2009

Language: English
Pages: 424
Tags: Renewable and Green Energy; Sustainable Development; Civil Engineering; Engineering Thermodynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer; Environmental Monitoring/Analysis

Front Matter....Pages -
Smart Monitoring of Wind Turbines Using Neural Networks....Pages 1-8
SMART Buildings: Intelligent Software Agents....Pages 9-17
Solar Energy Harvesting for ZigBee Electronics....Pages 19-27
Multi-Agent Systems Technology for Composite Decision Making in Complex Systems....Pages 29-38
Network-Enabled Intelligent Photovoltaic Arrays....Pages 39-47
Design Ontology for Comfort Systems and Energy Infrastructures: Flexergy....Pages 49-58
An Innovative Building-Integrated Solar-Air Collector: Presentation and First Results....Pages 59-69
Development and Strategies of Building Integrated Wind Turbines in China....Pages 71-78
Missing Data Interpolation of Power Generation for Photovoltaic System....Pages 79-87
Development of Short-Term Prediction System for Wind Power Generation Based on Multiple Observation Points....Pages 89-98
Electricity Supply to a Remote Village Using Grid-Connected Wind Generators....Pages 99-105
The Role of Photovoltaics in Reducing Carbon Emissions in Domestic Properties....Pages 107-115
Armature and Field Controlled DC Motor Based Wind Turbine Emulation for Wind Energy Conversion Systems Operating over a Wide Range of Wind Velocity....Pages 117-125
Utilization of Fly-Ash Products from Biomass Co-combustion and Zeolite 13X for Building Energy Conservations....Pages 127-135
The Effect of Metal Ions on Calcium Carbonate Precipitation and Scale Formation....Pages 137-146
Lateral Stability of Prefabricated Straw Bale Housing....Pages 147-154
Monitoring of the Moisture Content of Straw Bale Walls....Pages 155-164
An Evaluation of Environmental and Economic Performance of Sustainable Building Technologies for Apartment Houses in Korea....Pages 165-174
Managing Change in Domestic Renewable Energy Schemes....Pages 175-186
Optimum Energy Management of a Photovoltaic Water Pumping System....Pages 187-197
Diagnosis by Fault Signature Analysis Applied to Wind Energy....Pages 199-207
A Novel Self-organizing Neural Technique for Wind Speed Mapping....Pages 209-217
Integral Fuzzy Control for Photovoltaic Power Systems....Pages 219-228
MACSyME: Modelling, Analysis and Control for Systems with Multiple Energy Sources....Pages 229-238
Structural Analysis for Fault Detection and Isolation in Fuel Cell Stack System....Pages 239-254
Efficiency Analysis of Cross-Flow Plate Heat Exchanger for Indirect Evaporative Cooling....Pages 255-264
Thermal Work Condition Analysis of Teaching Building Heating Network in Winter Vacation with User Regulation....Pages 265-273
Integrated Building Management Systems for Sustainable Technologies: Design Aspiration and Operational Shortcoming....Pages 275-280
Smart Use of Knowledge: A Case Study of Constructing Decisional DNA on Renewable Energy....Pages 281-289
A Study of Photo physical Properties of End Polymeric Material....Pages 291-295
Renewable Energy Source Emulator....Pages 297-304
Geothermal Active Building Concept....Pages 305-314
Heating Supply in Kazakhstan: Concept - Simulation - Comparison....Pages 315-324
Towards a More Holistic and Complementary Approach to Modelling Energy Consumption in Buildings....Pages 325-337
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....Pages 339-345
Investigating the Applicability of Different Thermal Comfort Models in Kuwait Classrooms Operated in Hybrid Air-Conditioning Mode....Pages 347-355
Water and Energy Efficient Showers....Pages 357-368
Research of Solar-Kang Heating Systems Design for Rural House in Cold Areas of China....Pages 369-377
Research on Energy-Efficient Exterior Walls of Rural Housing in Northern China....Pages 379-385
Family Thermal Performance Analysis Based on Household Metering....Pages 387-393
The Investigation and Analysis of Indoor Temperature Desire of Building Users in Harbin....Pages 395-402
Simulated Performance of Earthtube for Cooling of Office Buildings in the Southeast of UK....Pages 403-411
Study on a Novel Hybrid Desiccant Dehumidification and Air Conditioning System....Pages 413-421
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