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Advances In Passive Cooling |
Buildings, Energy and Solar Technology Series
* Provides a comprehensive update on the state-of-the-art of passive cooling technology, authored by a global team of experts.
* Covers the different techniques available in a style accessible to architecture and engineering professionals and students.
* Presents essential information on the technologies increasingly considered as the best alternative to energy-hungry air conditioning.
Following a rapid increase in the use of air conditioning in buildings of all types, the energy demand for powering such strategies 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 aspiring architects, engineers and other students working on building physics and low-energy design.
Contributing authors include: F. Nicols, London Metropolitan University; H. Akbari, Lawrence Berkeley, National Laboratory, USA; K. Voss, University of Dortmund, Germany; M. Kolokotroni, Brunel University; J. Pfafferott, Faunhofer Institute, Germany; and E. Erell, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel.
Mat Santamouris is Associate Professor in the Physics Department, University of Athens, Greece, and Visiting Professor at the University of North London. He has had many books published in this field and is on the editorial board for four journals.
Contents:
List of Figures, Tables and Boxes; List of Contributors; Preface: Why Passive Cooling—Mat Santamouris; List of Acronyms and Abbreviations; 1) Progress on Passive Cooling: Adaptive Thermal Comfort and Passive Architecture—Fergus Nichol and Susan Roaf; 2) Opportunities for Saving Energy and Improving Air Quality in Urban Heat Islands—Hashem Akbari; 3) Solar Control—Karsten Voss, with Tilmann E. Kuhn, Peter Nitz, Sebastian Herkel, Maria Wall and Bengt Hellstr?m; 4) Ventilation for Cooling—Maria Kolokotroni and Mat Santamouris; 5) Ground Cooling: Recent Progress—Jens Pfafferott, with Simone Walker-Hertkorn and Burkhard Sanner; 6) Evaporative Cooling—Evyatar Erell; 7) Radiative Cooling—Evyatar Erell; Index.
“The air-conditioning industry has sold comfort as a commodity. This book not only challenges their concept of comfort but examines the ways and means that we can produce comfortable environments at minimal energy cost and hence fight global warming.”
-- Professor Michael Wilson, Director of the Low Energy Architecture Research Unit, London Metropolitan University
“For all those who have been unlucky enough to have roasted in ill-designed buildings, for all those who work for this not to happen, and for many more this is important and useful reading.”
-- Alexandros N. Tombazis, Architect, Greece
“The book goes back to the basic physics of human comfort and explains why many answers can be found in today’s best building technologies, before relying on energy dependent devices and gadgets.”
-- Eduardo de Oliveira Fernandes, Professor at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Portugal
340 pp., 6 1/8" x 9 1/4", figures & tables, September 2007
Published by Earthscan Publications Ltd.
Contributing authors include: F. Nicols, London Metropolitan University; H. Akbari, Lawrence Berkeley, National Laboratory, USA; K. Voss, University of Dortmund, Germany; M. Kolokotroni, Brunel University; J. Pfafferott, Faunhofer Institute, Germany; and E. Erell, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel.
Mat Santamouris is Associate Professor in the Physics Department, University of Athens, Greece, and Visiting Professor at the University of North London. He has had many books published in this field and is on the editorial board for four journals.
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