Building Energy Flexibility and Demand Management

Building Energy Flexibility and Demand Management looks at the high penetration of intermittent renewable energy sources and the need for increased flexibility. Ensuring electrical power systems adapt to dynamic energy demand and supply conditions, the book supports the transition to a renewable energy future with current fluctuating power generation. By facilitating the penetration of renewable energy sources into the building sector and balancing electricity supply with demand in real-time, this book will provide fundamental concepts, theories, and methods to understand, quantify, design and optimize building energy flexibility. In addition, the book also provides case studies with emerging technologies to enhance building energy flexibility and demonstrate how demand management strategies can utilize energy flexibility for demand reduction and load shifting. It will be useful for all those researchers and engineers working in flexible energy systems and advanced demand side management strategies.

Table of Contents:
Section I: Foundational information and methods 1. Energy and environmental sustainability 2. Energy flexibility concepts, indicators and quantification methods 3. Energy flexibility modelling and optimization 4. Energy demand management Section II: Emerging technologies and case studies for enhanced energy flexibility 5. Thermal energy storage for enhanced energy flexibility 6. Renewable energy for enhanced energy flexibility 7. Heat pumps in building energy flexibility 8. District heating and cooling for energy flexibility 9. Energy flexibility of a net zero energy: Case study and demonstration 10. Energy flexibility in intermittent heated and/or cooled systems: A case study

About the Author :
Dr Zhenjun Ma is an Associate Professor, Deputy Director and Director of Research at the Sustainable Buildings Research Centre, University of Wollongong, Australia. He is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Refrigeration, Air conditioning and Heating (AIRAH). Dr Ma is an Associate Editor of two Elsevier Journals of Solar Energy and Energy for Sustainable Development and is on the Editorial Board of six journals such as Sustainable Energy Technologies & Assessments; Scientific Report; and Buildings. His research is mainly focused on sustainable building energy technologies, building energy flexibility, thermal energy storage, and renewable energy in buildings. He has published five book chapters and >150 peer-reviewed papers in prestigious journals, resulting in 5,980 citations in Google Scholar as of September 2021. He is a recipient of several prestigious awards such as Australian Endeavour Research Fellowship Award; Excellence in Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Research award from AIRAH, and Engineering Education Engagement Award from the Australasian Association for Engineering Education. Müslüm Arıcı is a faculty member in Thermodynamics and Heat Technique Division of Mechanical Engineering Department of Kocaeli University, Turkey. He completed Diploma Course at von Karman Institute, Belgium in 2007. He received his PhD degree from Kocaeli University in 2010. He worked in Fluid Mechanics Research Group, University of Zaragoza, Spain in 2014 and 2016-2017 as a visiting professor. He has co-authored more than 100 papers in refereed journal papers and presented numerous research papers in international conferences. He has been invited as an invited speaker in several international conferences. He has served as a guest editor in several journals and has been in the editorial board of several international journals. Dr Amin Shahsavar was born in Urmia - Iran. He studied in Iran at the University of Urmia and Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman where he successfully completed a B.E. and a M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, respectively. As a scholar he continued for another degree, in graduate studies at Isfahan University of Technology pursuing Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering which was achieved with honors in 2015. His Dissertation was successfully defended in October 29 2015. Dr. Shahsavar is an Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering at present, teaching heat transfer, thermodynamics and fluid mechanics in both undergraduate and graduate levels at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kermanshah University of Technology, Kermanshah, Iran. He has published two books and more than 120 papers in the high-rank ISI journals. His main interests are the renewable energy systems, latent heat storage systems and nanofluids.