Call for paper
Workshop 1: Building Physics
We are welcoming all the works associated with but not limited to the following issues:
- Building Energy Modeling
- Operational energy and the building’s thermal mass
- Moisture transport and safety
- Air-tightness and air movement
- Climate change and climate adaptation of buildings
- Indoor climate
- Sustainable building envelope systems
- Smart facades
- Building materials
- Energy Efficiency in Buildings
- Passive, low energy, Zero and Plus-energy buildings, Zero emission buildings
- Building Management Systems
- Modelling and Simulation,
- Sensors and Controls
- Energy Standards
- Buildings-to-Grid Integration
Workshop 2: Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning & Refrigeration (HVAC & R)
We are welcoming all the works associated with but not limited to the following issues:
- Individual HVAC systems
- HVAC on a district network
- Heat pump HVAC systems
- Heat sources for a heat pump and sinks
- Heating, Generation and Distribution, Central heating
- Hot water, steam heat, hot air, solar-powered heat sources
- Energy sources types of fuel: Solid fuels, Liquid fuels, Natural gas
- District heating system
- Local geothermal heat
- Water heating. Hydronic radiant floor heating systems, Hydronic systems
- Heat pump
- Refrigerants
- Reversible heat pumps
- Vapor-compression refrigeration system (VCRS)
- Heat pump for heat or preheat water
- Standards SEER, ESEER
- The design of the evaporator and condenser heat exchangers
- The design of a heat pump and its efficiency
- Gas compressors
- Compression heat pumps
- Absorption heat pumps
- Seasonal thermal energy storage and interseasonal heat transfer
- Ground-coupled heat exchanger
- Software GAEA, AWADUKT Thermo, EnergyPlus, L-EWTSim, WKM, and others
- Air-source heat pumps (ASHP), Air–air heat pump, Air–water heat pump, combination air-source heat pumps
- Protection from noise pollution caused by heat pump outdoor units
- Thermal storage solutions in conjunction with ASHPs
- ASHPs with passive solar heating
- Heat pumps with backup systems
- ground source heat pump (GSHP)
- direct exchange (DX) ground source heat pump
- Liquid-to-air heat pump (water-to-air)
- Heating energy, Methods of controlling building heating
- Air conditioning, Free cooling, Packaged systems and split systems
- Ventilation. Mechanical/forced and natural types, hybrid ventilation
- Natural ventilation strategies. Wind driven ventilation, Buoyancy-driven ventilation
- Ventilation energy recovery
- Economizers
- Ventilation rate standards
- Building Performance Simulation (BPS)
- Building Automation Systems (BAS)
- Design of naturally ventilated buildings
- Mechanical ventilation strategies. Demand-controlled ventilation (DCV), Personalized ventilation
Workshop 3: Renewable Energy
We are welcoming all the works associated with but not limited to the following issues:
PV Systems for achieving global sustainable development goals
- Design and Installation of PV Systems
- Operation and Maintenance of PV Systems
- Monitoring, system failure analysis, PV system reliability.
- Electric and thermal performance, safety aspects, integrated mounting structures
- PV products for buildings.
- PV in vehicles;
- PV in transport infrastructure
- Grid and Energy System Integration
- Grid management
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Technologies and simulation for short-term and seasonal storage
PV Strategies and Policies
- Economics and competitiveness of PV,
- market assessment and investment
- PV in integrated energy system, mass storage,
- PV for achieving global sustainable development goals,
- PV in climate change mitigation
Solar Thermal Energy
- Solar Thermal Power Plants
- Solar Thermal Collectors
- Solar resource assessment, measurements and monitoring
Hydropower
- Small hydro for local community and industry,
- Small hydro for contribute to distributed generation in a regional electricity grid
- Small hydro projects for isolated areas
- Hydropower and the Environment
Biomass
- Wood and Wood Waste
- Waste-to-Energy (MSW)
- Landfill Gas and Biogas
- Biomass & the Environment
Biofuels
- Ethanol and Biodiesel for Transportation Facilities
- Biofuels and the Environment
Wind
- Horizontal-axis turbines
- Vertical-axis turbines
- Small wind turbines
- Wind power plants
- Wind Energy and the Environment
Geothermal
Direct use and district heating systems
Geothermal power plants
- Dry steam plants
- Flash steam plants
- Binary cycle power plants
Wave power, Tidal power
Workshop 4: Energy Management
We are welcoming all the works associated with but not limited to the following issues:
- Energy strategies in the transport sector;
- Energy procurement management;
- Management of energy distribution and use;
- Modern technologies of energy storage.
- Building and Energy Management Systems
Workshop 5: Energy Efficiency in Transport
We are welcoming all the works associated with but not limited to the following issues:
- Energy efficiency in transport.
- Sustainable transport
- Energy efficiency and emission reduction
- Clean fuels (biodiesel, biogas/CNG, electric and hybrid Vehicles, LPG, hydrogen vehicle)
- Energy efficiency of municipal transportation facilities;
- Energy and public utilities in transportation (including heat, electricity, gas and water supply);
- Energy price management and efficient pricing;
- Batteries and energy storage, hydrogen storage;
- Compressed air engines;
- Internal combustion engines;
- Fuel cells;
- Fuel efficiency;
- Hybrids and hydraulic hybrids;
- Intelligent Transport Systems
