Advances in passive cooling / edited by Mat Santamouris.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Santamouris, M. (Matheos), 1956-

Series:

Buildings, energy, solar technology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Solar air conditioning--Passive systems.

Solar air conditioning.

Physical Description:

xxxvi, 303 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; Sterling, VA : Earthscan, 2007.

Summary:

Following a rapid increase in the use of air conditioning in buildings of all types, the energy demand for powering such devices has become a significant cause for concern. Passive cooling is increasingly being thought of as the best alternative to air conditioning. This book offers the latest knowledge and techniques on passive cooling, enabling building professionals to understand the state of the art and employ relevant new strategies. With separate chapters on comfort, urban microclimate, solar control, ventilation, ground cooling and evaporative and radiative cooling, this authoritative text will also be invaluable for architects, engineers and students working on building physics and low-energy design.

Contents:

Preface: Why Passive Cooling? / Mat Santamouris xxi

1 Progress on Passive Cooling: Adaptive Thermal Comfort and Passive Architecture / Fergus Nicol, Susan Roaf 1

The heat balance approach to defining comfort in buildings 3

Thermal comfort surveys and the adaptive approach 6

Lessons of the adaptive approach 10

Problems of the adaptive approach 16

Building design, air conditioning and the adaptive approach 18

Conclusion: Towards a 'modern vernacular' for buildings and cities 24

2 Opportunities for Saving Energy and Improving Air Quality in Urban Heat Islands / Hashem Akbari 30

Introduction and background on the urban heat island 30

Heat island mitigation technologies 40

Analysis tools 80

3 Solar Control / Karsten Voss, Tilmann E. Kuhn, Peter Nitz, Sebastian Herkel, Maria Wall, Bengt Hellstrom 93

The importance of solar load control 95

Solar radiation 96

Physical fundamentals for solar control 101

Components for effective solar control 105

Automatic and manual control 125

Combinations of glazing units and solar control: Calculation of properties and performance 128

Criteria of solar-control system selection 133

4 Ventilation for Cooling / Maria Kolokotroni, Mat Santamouris 140

Functions of ventilation 140

Building design strategies, systems and components 141

Ventilation of urban buildings 169

Models for estimating ventilation cooling potential 171

5 Ground Cooling: Recent Progress / Jens Pfafferott, Simone Walker-Hertkorn, Burkhard Sanner 190

Ground temperature 190

Applications 192

Earth-to-air heat exchangers 195

Borehole heat exchangers 212

6 Evaporative Cooling / Evyatar Erell 228

Applicability 231

Downdraught evaporative cool towers (DECTs) 234

Roof pond systems 249

Multiple-component systems 255

Health and thermal comfort 256

7 Radiative Cooling / Evyatar Erell 262

Radiant heat transfer 263

Applicability: The radiative cooling resource 264

System concepts 271

Design issues 277.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781844072637

1844072630

OCLC:

82471631