Retrofitting - (De Gruyter Stem) by Mark Bomberg & David W Yarbrough & Hamed H Saber (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

The challenge to create a next generation technology and methods for testing its performance, led to Integration of heating/ cooling and ventilation with wall structures. Passive and Thermo-Active Cluster (PTAC) integrates hydronic heat exchangers with solar panels and underground water tanks (providing thermal storage) for heat pump. PTAC delivers a verified technology with 90 % energy reduction in new buildings and 70 % in retofitted (benchark 2004). It uses:

1) two-stage construction process to modify the pattern of financing.

2) building automatics to control contributions of sub-systems.

3) adaptable indoor climate and HVAC integrated with the building structure, jointly with monitoring and performance evaluation (MAPE) optimizes energy and indoor environment under service conditions.

4) climatic district network, with minimum two (historic buildings), will optimize energy use in the network.

PTAC selects practical improvements to the triangle: occupant-controlled comfort, energy efficiency and the smart energy grid to initiate a discussion on the public-private consortium linked with public education activities to develop the PTAC approach with a view to slow climate change.

About the Author

MARK BOMBERG, Prof. Dr., (Technology Dr., Lund U., Sweden 1974, Dr in Science, Engineering, Warsaw Technical U, Poland, 1965), is a Research Prof. of Building Physics at Mechanical Eng., Clarkson U, Potsdam NY, and a Principal at Innovative Building Systems, Radom, Poland, Life Member of Building Enclosure Technology and Environment (BETEC) Committee of the National Institute of Building Science (NIBS) in Washington, DC. Worked at National Research Council of Canada (1975-2000), was an Editor-in-Chief of J. Building Physics (1984-2018) at Sage Corp. His Background includes Heat, Air and Moisture, Material Sciences and Durability of construction materials. He wrote more than 250 reviewed papers and 7 books, has 96,000 reads on the Research Gate.

YARBROUGH, DAVID W., Prof. Dr., Vice-President, R&D Services, Professor Emeritus, ChE, Tennessee Technological University, 2002, Chairman of Chemical Engineering, TTU. 1987-2002, Professor 1976 - 2002, Research Staff, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (full or part-time) 1978-2010. Awards: Fellow of the Tennessee Academy of Science,1986, Distinguished scientist 1998, Fellow of the International Thermal Conductivity Conference. 1987, Outstanding Faculty Award (TTU) 1990, 1987, International Thermal Conductivity Conference Award, 1995, ASTM C 16 - Awards 1992, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2009, 2015, National Institute of Building Sciences 2012, 2014

SABER, HAMED H., Prof. Dr., Jubail Industrial College, Royal Commission for Jubail and Yanbu, Jubail Industrial City, Saudi Arabia, previously senior Research Officer with National Council of Canada. Hamed graduated with Bachelor's and Master degrees in Mechanical Engineering in 1988 and 1992 in Egipt, and in 2000 received a PhD in Nuclear Engineering (GPA: 4.0/4.0) from the University of New Mexico. He has two decades of experience in developing Heat and Mass Transport and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Models: (i) for Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Department at the University of New Mexico, USA: automated user-friendly software for life testing generators though comparing model predictions and measurements at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory for use of thermoelectric power in planetary exploration, (ii) for National Research Council of Canada's two- and three-dimensional Heat, Air and Mass Transfer through Exterior Enclosures of Buildings.