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Advanced Decision Making for HVAC Engineers

Creating Energy Efficient Smart Buildings

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  • Explains the principles of heat transfer, load calculations and energy modeling used for achieving energy efficient HVAC design solutions

  • Highlights some of the highest energy-consuming HVAC applications and describes possible opportunities for tremendous energy savings

  • Demonstrates cutting-edge methods and techniques to help HVAC designers in their decision making approach for selecting and improving appropriate systems and solutions

  • Illustrates how buildings of the future can utilize these advanced decision making approaches to become autonomous and truly smart

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
  2. Basics of Heat Transfer, Load Calculation, and Energy Modeling

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Heat Transfer in a Nutshell

      • Javad Khazaii
      Pages 3-13
    3. Load Calculations and Energy Modeling

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      Pages 15-30
  3. High Energy Consuming HVAC Applications

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 31-31
    2. Data Centers

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      Pages 33-38
    3. Health-Care Facilities

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      Pages 39-44
    4. Laboratories

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      Pages 45-50
    5. Cleanrooms

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      Pages 51-56
    6. Commercial Kitchen and Dining Facilities

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      Pages 57-61
  4. Advanced Decision Making Strategies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 63-63
    2. Introduction

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      Pages 65-71
    3. Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP)

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      Pages 73-85
    4. Genetic Algorithm Optimization

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      Pages 87-97
    5. Pareto-Based Optimization

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      Pages 99-115
    6. Decision Making Under Uncertainty

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      Pages 117-135
    7. Agent-Based Modeling

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      Pages 137-144
    8. Artificial Neural Network

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      Pages 145-155
    9. Fuzzy Logic

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      Pages 157-166
    10. Game Theory

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      Pages 167-176

About this book

This book focuses on some of the most energy-consuming HVAC systems; illuminating huge opportunities for energy savings in buildings that operate with these systems. The main discussion is on, cutting-edge decision making approaches, and algorithms in: decision making under uncertainty, genetic algorithms, fuzzy logic, artificial neural networks, agent based modeling, and game theory. These methods are applied to HVAC systems, in order to help designers select the best options among the many available pathways for designing and the building of HVAC systems and applications. The discussion further evolves to depict how the buildings of the future can incorporate these advanced decision-making algorithms to become autonomous and truly ‘smart’.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Engineering Department, Kennesaw State University (Marietta Campus), Marietta, USA

    Javad Khazaii

About the author

Dr. Javad Khazaii earned his B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from Isfahan University of Technology, his Master of Business Administration with a concentration of Computer Information Systems from Georgia State University, and his PhD in Architecture with a major in building technology and a minor in building construction from Georgia Institute of Technology. He is a registered engineer and a LEED accredited professional with more than two decades of professional project management, design and energy modeling. He has been adjunct faculty in Engineering at Kennesaw State University since 2011. Dr. Khazaii has co-authored scientific articles and conference proceedings for the ASME and IBPSA, and he was one of the original contributors to the State of Qatar (Energy) Sustainability Assessment System (QSAS). His team was awarded first place in the International Building Performance Simulation Association's (IBPSA) annual group competition in 2009. His first book “Energy Efficient HVAC Design, An Essential Guide for Sustainable Building” was published by Springer in 2014 and is within Springer’s top 100 best sellers in Energy.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Advanced Decision Making for HVAC Engineers

  • Book Subtitle: Creating Energy Efficient Smart Buildings

  • Authors: Javad Khazaii

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33328-1

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Energy, Energy (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-33327-4Published: 18 August 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-81486-5Published: 23 June 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-33328-1Published: 10 August 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 191

  • Number of Illustrations: 40 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Energy Efficiency, Building Physics, HVAC, Energy Systems, Operations Research/Decision Theory

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Buying options

eBook USD 79.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
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  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 99.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 109.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

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