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Office buildings. --- Energy efficiency --- Retrofit

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This book discusses dynamic modeling, simulation, and control strategies for Photovoltaic (PV) stand-alone systems during variation of environmental conditions. Moreover, the effectiveness of the implemented Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) techniques and the employed control strategy are evaluated during variations of solar irradiance and cell temperature. The simulation results are based on the reliability of the MPPT techniques applied in extracting the maximum power from the PV system during the rapid variation of the environmental conditions. The authors review two MPPT techniques implemented in PV systems, namely the perturb and observe (P&O) MPPT Technique and the Incremental Conductance (InCond) MPPT technique. These two MPPT techniques were simulated by the MATLAB/Simulink and the results response of the PV array from voltage, current, and power are compared to the effect of solar irradiation and temperature change. Discusses dynamic modeling, simulation, and control strategy of PV stand-alone systems during variation of the environmental conditions; Evaluates the effectiveness of the implemented Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) techniques and the employed control strategy, during variations of solar irradiance and the cell temperature; Simulates two MPPT techniques using MATLAB/Simulink and compares the response of the PV array from voltage, current, and power to the effect of solar irradiation and temperature change; Describes an efficient control strategy to enhance the Battery-Supercapacitor Hybrid Energy Storage System (BS-HESS), appropriate for PV stand-alone systems.

Renewable energy resources. --- Energy storage. --- Energy efficiency. --- Renewable and Green Energy. --- Energy Storage. --- Energy Efficiency.

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This book focusses on the challenges and changes organizational management faces in an era when the need to develop environmentally aware processes meets high levels of competition. It covers the synergetic effects, how re-use, recycling, waste reduction, and other sustainable production strategies can add value, low costs and time of production. Sustainable business behavior is not only an environmental perspective on management, but more and more contains an organizational perspective. Taking into account these issues, green and lean management appears as the way managers can drive their employees to continuously improve the management processes that add value to the organization and costumers. This book provides information on principles, strategies, models, and applications of green and lean management, and at the same time communicates the latest research activity relating to this scientific field world-wide.

Engineering economics. --- Engineering economy. --- Energy efficiency. --- Production management. --- Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing. --- Energy Efficiency. --- Operations Management.

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This book investigates the latest modeling and control technologies in the context of air-conditioning systems. Firstly, it introduces the state-space method for developing dynamic models of all components in a central air-conditioning system. The models are primarily nonlinear and based on the fundamental principle of energy and mass conservation, and are transformed into state-space form through linearization. The book goes on to describe and discuss the state-space models with the help of graph theory and the structure-matrix theory. Subsequently, virtual sensor calibration and virtual sensing methods (which are very useful for real system control) are illustrated together with a case study. Model-based predictive control and state-space feedback control are applied to air-conditioning systems to yield better local control, while the air-side synergic control scheme and a global optimization strategy based on the decomposition-coordination method are developed so as to achieve energy conservation in the central air-conditioning system. Lastly, control strategies for VAV systems including total air volume control and trim & response static pressure control are investigated in practice. .

Energy efficiency. --- Building construction. --- Mathematical models. --- Sustainable development. --- Energy Efficiency. --- Building Physics, HVAC. --- Mathematical Modeling and Industrial Mathematics. --- Sustainable Development.

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This book provides the readers with a timely guide to the application and integration of interdisciplinary principles from the fields of kinetic design, mechanics, energy and materials engineering in the fields of architecture and engineering design. It explores the potential integration of autoreactive solutions, unpowered kinetic systems triggered by changes in the surrounding latent energy conditions, within man-made artefacts with added functionality and efficiency. Related interdisciplinary parameters are explored discussing morphology, mechanics, energy and materials in detail. Each chapter examines the implications of autoreactivity in one specific field, providing a general overview and listing relevant motion design parameters and identifying for the reader those aspects that have a high potential to open up for new design directions. The book guides readers through a highly multidisciplinary field of design, offering an extraordinary resource of knowledge for professional architects, engineers and designers, as well as for university teachers, researchers and students. Interdisciplinary research is presented throughout the book as a powerful resource that can serve architecture and design, and a learning method to rethink innovative, optimal and sustainable solutions.

Engineering design. --- Graphic design. --- Energy efficiency. --- Engineering Design. --- Interaction Design. --- Energy Efficiency. --- Consumption of energy --- Energy efficiency --- Fuel consumption --- Fuel efficiency --- Power resources --- Energy conservation --- Design, Engineering --- Engineering --- Industrial design --- Strains and stresses --- Design --- Energy consumption.