Advances in Ventilation and Energy Saving for Healthy Indoor Ambiences
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Science and Technology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 August 2021) | Viewed by 2618
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Interests: marine engineering; energy; thermodynamics; naval architecture; sustainability
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Dear Colleagues,
From the beginning, the term “indoor air” has been a research area with two main handicaps—to control the quality of the indoor environment and to improve the ambiance through thermal comfort conditions with a lower energy consumption. In this sense, because of the reduced dimensions of indoor ambience and the different emission sources placed indoors, a better solution to ensure these objectives is to ventilate and renovate indoor ambience with clear outdoor air. Despite this, because of old contaminants, like radon emission sources and new ventilation needs, for example the COVID-19 pandemic ventilation requirements, this tendency to ventilate indoor environments is increasing far beyond what it was before, and, as a consequence, has resulted in higher energy consumption and a reduction in indoor thermal comfort. Finally, this problematic situation is aggravated when outdoor air is of low quality, such as in some polluted cities, with the only solution being to implement previous air renovation with different indoor air cleaning technologies, as defined by one of the main objectives of the international energy agency (IEA) in Annex 78.
With the aim to inspire future research activities and ventilation standards, this special issue is making a call to researchers to agglutinate different ventilation solutions in order to define new air cleaning technologies or, in general, to define or improve knowledge about indoor air ventilation.
Prof. Dr. José A. Orosa
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Ventilation
- Indoro ambiences
- Indoor pollutants
- Energy saving
- Buildings design
- Thermal comfort
