Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Energy consumption of buildings -- 1.1 Residential buildings -- 1.2 Office and administrative buildings -- 1.3 Air conditioning -- 1.4 Lighting electricity consumption -- 1.5 Influence of the urban form on energy consumption of buildings -- 1.6 Office buildings in an urban context -- 1.7 Residential buildings in an urban context -- 1.8 Site density effect -- 1.9 Climate effect -- 1.10 Albedo effects -- 1.11 Thermal properties of the building envelope -- 1.12 Solar gains and glazing -- 1.13 Building typology and urban form -- 1.14 Conclusions -- References -- 2 -- Part A: Passive solar -- 2.1 Passive solar use by glazing -- 2.2 Transparent thermal insulation (TTI) -- 2.3 Heat storage by interior building elements -- Part B: Natural ventilation -- 2.4 Analytical methods for volume-flow calculations -- 2.5 Air flow network simulations -- 2.6 Ventilation potentials -- 2.7 Thermal comfort and energy savings in office rooms with controlled natural ventilation -- 2.8 Weekly simulations with dynamic boundary conditions -- 2.9 Natural single-sided ventilation with sliding windows -- 2.10 Annual simulations -- Part C: Daylighting of buildings -- 2.11 Luminance and illuminance -- 2.12 Visual performance and quality of lighting -- 2.13 Light measurements -- 2.14 Sky luminous intensity models -- 2.15 Daylight distribution in interior spaces -- 2.16 Calculation of daylight availability in buildings -- 2.17 Standardisation and calculation methods -- 2.18 Determination of needed artificial light sources -- References -- 3 Solar and geothermal resource -- 3.1 Extra-terrestrial solar irradiance -- 3.2 Sun-Earth geometry -- 3.3 Equator coordinates -- 3.4 Horizon coordinates -- 3.5 Atmospheric transmission and spectral irradiance -- 3.6 Statistical production of hourly irradiance data records.

3.7 Global irradiance and irradiance on inclined surfaces -- 3.8 Shading -- 3.9 Temperature time series modelling -- 3.10 Geothermal resource -- References -- 4 Solar thermal heating -- 4.1 Markets and economics -- 4.2 System overview -- 4.3 Systems engineering -- 4.4 Large solar plants for heating drinking water with short-term stores -- 4.5 Solar district heating -- 4.6 Modelling of thermal collectors -- 4.7 Storage modelling -- 4.8 Solar air collectors -- 4.9 Calculation of the available thermal power of solar air collectors -- 4.10 Design of the air circuit -- References -- 5 Solar cooling -- 5.1 Introduction to the technologies -- 5.2 Technology trends -- 5.3 The absorption cooling process and its components -- 5.4 Components of absorption chillers -- 5.5 Physical principles of the absorption process -- 5.6 Energy balances and performance figures of an absorption chiller -- 5.7 Static absorption cooling model -- 5.8 Parameter identification for the static absorption cooling machine model -- 5.9 Open cycle desiccant cooling -- 5.10 Physical and technological bases of sorption-supported air conditioning -- 5.11 The technology of heat recovery -- 5.12 Technology humidifier -- 5.13 Design limits and climatic boundary conditions -- 5.14 Energy balance of sorption-supported air conditioning -- 5.15 Closed cycle adsorption cooling -- 5.16 Heat rejection and auxiliary electricity consumption -- References -- 6 Geothermal heating and cooling -- 6.1 Direct geothermal energy use for cooling and preheating of buildings -- 6.2 Indirect geothermal energy use -- 6.3 Geothermal heat exchangers for chiller heat rejection -- 6.4 Modeling of geothermal heat exchangers -- 6.5 Economics of geothermal heat exchangers -- 6.6 Performance summary on geothermal heat exchangers -- References -- 7 Photovoltaics -- 7.1 Structure of grid-connected systems.

7.2 Solar cell technologies -- 7.3 Module technology -- 7.4 Building integration and costs -- 7.5 Energy production and the performance ratio of PV systems -- 7.6 Physical fundamentals of solar electricity production -- 7.7 Current-voltage characteristics -- 7.8 PV performance with shading -- 7.9 Simple temperature model for PV modules -- 7.10 Systems engineering -- References -- 8 Compression chillers and heat pumps -- 8.1 Overview of heat pump and chiller technologies -- 8.2 Energy efficiency of heat pumps and chillers -- 8.3 Heat pump and compression chiller modelling -- 8.4 Case studies for photovoltaic compression versus thermal cooling -- 8.5 Conclusions on case studies for photovoltaic and thermal cooling -- References -- 9 Thermal analysis of building-integrated solar components -- 9.1 Empirical thermal model of building-integrated photovoltaic -- 9.2 Energy balance and stationary thermal model of ventilated double facades -- 9.3 Heat transfer coefficients for the interior and facade air gap -- 9.4 Building-integrated solar components (U and g values) -- 9.5 Warm-air generation by photovoltaic facades -- 9.6 Photovoltaic thermal collectors for heating and cooling generation -- References -- Index.