{"id":393,"date":"2019-10-01T12:19:19","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T10:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arm.ual.es\/arm-group\/?page_id=393"},"modified":"2019-10-31T12:50:10","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T11:50:10","slug":"energy-efficiency-and-comfort-control-in-buildings","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/arm.ual.es\/arm-group\/research-lines\/energy-efficiency-and-comfort-control-in-buildings\/","title":{"rendered":"Energy efficiency and comfort control in buildings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p align=\"justify\">The increasing concern about climate change is leading to the appearance of regulations which intend to reduce both energy consumption and greenhouse gasses emissions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p align=\"justify\">Energy consumption of residential and non-residential buildings stands for the half of the worldwide energy consumption and they are also responsible for 35% of carbon dioxide emissions. Besides, as human beings develop their quotidian activities inside buildings, greenhouse effect reduction and energy efficiency techniques cannot put users\u2019 wellbeing into danger, since their productivity is directly related to their comfort. Hence, it is required to find a trade-off among users\u2019 comfort, carbon dioxide emissions and energy consumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p align=\"justify\">To achieve this goal several perspectives can\nbe adopted, as the construction of bioclimatic buildings which makes use of\nrenewable energies, the refurbishment of old building considering some energy\nefficiency and comfort criteria, etc. Nevertheless, in some cases, the\npreviously mentioned strategies may be insufficient. In these cases, it is necessary\nto develop specific control actions on Heating, Ventilation and Air\nConditioning (HVAC) systems and other building&#8217;s actuators, oriented to provide\ncomfortable environments from thermal, visual and indoor air quality points of\nview, and with the minimum energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p align=\"justify\">Within this research line, several works have\nbeen developed and implemented inside the CIESOL bioclimatic building. For\ninstance, the application of different modelling techniques to capture the\ndynamic of the main indoor environmental and energy consumption variables; the\ndevelopment of different model predictive control-based approaches to maintain\nusers\u2019 comfort and, simultaneously, to reduce energy consumption; the\nimplementation of some energy management strategies which &nbsp;allows to handle, in an efficient way, the\noperation of a solar cooling installation and the integration of renewable\nenergy sources such as a photovoltaic plant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/arm.ual.es\/arm-group\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Imagen-linea2-1024x550.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-613\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arm.ual.es\/arm-group\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Imagen-linea2-1024x550.png 1024w, https:\/\/arm.ual.es\/arm-group\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Imagen-linea2-300x161.png 300w, https:\/\/arm.ual.es\/arm-group\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Imagen-linea2-768x412.png 768w, https:\/\/arm.ual.es\/arm-group\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Imagen-linea2.png 1168w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Related research projects<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"color:#ffffff\" class=\"has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"\ufffc (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/arm.ual.es\/arm-group\/projects\/chromae\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"55\" class=\"wp-image-927\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/arm.ual.es\/arm-group\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Chromae.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arm.ual.es\/arm-group\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Chromae.png 387w, https:\/\/arm.ual.es\/arm-group\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Chromae-300x109.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>     &#8230;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"\ufffc (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/arm.ual.es\/arm-group\/projects\/2015-iberdrola-opticones\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"49\" class=\"wp-image-929\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/arm.ual.es\/arm-group\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Logo3b.png\" alt=\"\"><\/a>     .. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"\ufffc (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/arm.ual.es\/arm-group\/projects\/enerpro\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"74\" class=\"wp-image-900\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/arm.ual.es\/arm-group\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/logo12.png\" alt=\"\"><\/a>  &#8230;    .<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"\ufffc (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/arm.ual.es\/arm-group\/projects\/2011-power\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"58\" class=\"wp-image-947\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/arm.ual.es\/arm-group\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Power.png\" alt=\"\"><\/a>.  &#8230;     . <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"\ufffc (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.arfrisol.es\/ARFRISOLportal\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"70\" height=\"76\" class=\"wp-image-936\" style=\"width: 70px;\" src=\"https:\/\/arm.ual.es\/arm-group\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Arfrisol.png\" alt=\"\"><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The increasing concern about climate change is leading to the appearance of regulations which intend to reduce both energy consumption and greenhouse gasses emissions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":616,"parent":111,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-393","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arm.ual.es\/arm-group\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arm.ual.es\/arm-group\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arm.ual.es\/arm-group\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arm.ual.es\/arm-group\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arm.ual.es\/arm-group\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/arm.ual.es\/arm-group\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2587,"href":"https:\/\/arm.ual.es\/arm-group\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/393\/revisions\/2587"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arm.ual.es\/arm-group\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/111"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arm.ual.es\/arm-group\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arm.ual.es\/arm-group\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}