Resilient cooling strategies : A critical review and qualitative assessment
(2021) In Energy and Buildings 251.- Abstract
The global effects of climate change will increase the frequency and intensity of extreme events such as heatwaves and power outages, which have consequences for buildings and their cooling systems. Buildings and their cooling systems should be designed and operated to be resilient under such events to protect occupants from potentially dangerous indoor thermal conditions. This study performed a critical review on the state-of-the-art of cooling strategies, with special attention to their performance under heatwaves and power outages. We proposed a definition of resilient cooling and described four criteria for resilience—absorptive capacity, adaptive capacity, restorative capacity, and recovery speed —and used them to qualitatively... (More)
The global effects of climate change will increase the frequency and intensity of extreme events such as heatwaves and power outages, which have consequences for buildings and their cooling systems. Buildings and their cooling systems should be designed and operated to be resilient under such events to protect occupants from potentially dangerous indoor thermal conditions. This study performed a critical review on the state-of-the-art of cooling strategies, with special attention to their performance under heatwaves and power outages. We proposed a definition of resilient cooling and described four criteria for resilience—absorptive capacity, adaptive capacity, restorative capacity, and recovery speed —and used them to qualitatively evaluate the resilience of each strategy. The literature review and qualitative analyses show that to attain resilient cooling, the four resilience criteria should be considered in the design phase of a building or during the planning of retrofits. The building and relevant cooling system characteristics should be considered simultaneously to withstand extreme events. A combination of strategies with different resilience capacities, such as a passive envelope strategy coupled with a low-energy space-cooling solution, may be needed to obtain resilient cooling. Finally, a further direction for a quantitative assessment approach has been pointed out.
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- publishing date
- 2021-11-15
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- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Active cooling, Building cooling, Climate change, Critical review, Heatwave, Low-energy cooling, Passive cooling, Power outage, Qualitative analysis, Resilient
- in
- Energy and Buildings
- volume
- 251
- article number
- 111312
- pages
- 22 pages
- publisher
- Elsevier
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- scopus:85112784297
- ISSN
- 0378-7788
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.enbuild.2021.111312
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- no
- additional info
- Funding Information: The research is supported by Det Energiteknologisk Udviklings- og Demonstrationsprogram (EUDP) under grant 64018-0578. It was also supported by the Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Building Technologies Office of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231. Publisher Copyright: © 2021 The Author(s)
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abstract = {{<p>The global effects of climate change will increase the frequency and intensity of extreme events such as heatwaves and power outages, which have consequences for buildings and their cooling systems. Buildings and their cooling systems should be designed and operated to be resilient under such events to protect occupants from potentially dangerous indoor thermal conditions. This study performed a critical review on the state-of-the-art of cooling strategies, with special attention to their performance under heatwaves and power outages. We proposed a definition of resilient cooling and described four criteria for resilience—absorptive capacity, adaptive capacity, restorative capacity, and recovery speed —and used them to qualitatively evaluate the resilience of each strategy. The literature review and qualitative analyses show that to attain resilient cooling, the four resilience criteria should be considered in the design phase of a building or during the planning of retrofits. The building and relevant cooling system characteristics should be considered simultaneously to withstand extreme events. A combination of strategies with different resilience capacities, such as a passive envelope strategy coupled with a low-energy space-cooling solution, may be needed to obtain resilient cooling. Finally, a further direction for a quantitative assessment approach has been pointed out.</p>}},
author = {{Zhang, Chen and Kazanci, Ongun Berk and Levinson, Ronnen and Heiselberg, Per and Olesen, Bjarne W. and Chiesa, Giacomo and Sodagar, Behzad and Ai, Zhengtao and Selkowitz, Stephen and Zinzi, Michele and Mahdavi, Ardeshir and Teufl, Helene and Kolokotroni, Maria and Salvati, Agnese and Bozonnet, Emmanuel and Chtioui, Feryal and Salagnac, Patrick and Rahif, Ramin and Attia, Shady and Lemort, Vincent and Elnagar, Essam and Breesch, Hilde and Sengupta, Abantika and Wang, Liangzhu Leon and Qi, Dahai and Stern, Philipp and Yoon, Nari and Bogatu, Dragos Ioan and Rupp, Ricardo Forgiarini and Arghand, Taha and Javed, Saqib and Akander, Jan and Hayati, Abolfazl and Cehlin, Mathias and Sayadi, Sana and Forghani, Sadegh and Zhang, Hui and Arens, Edward and Zhang, Guoqiang}},
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keywords = {{Active cooling; Building cooling; Climate change; Critical review; Heatwave; Low-energy cooling; Passive cooling; Power outage; Qualitative analysis; Resilient}},
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month = {{11}},
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title = {{Resilient cooling strategies : A critical review and qualitative assessment}},
url = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2021.111312}},
doi = {{10.1016/j.enbuild.2021.111312}},
volume = {{251}},
year = {{2021}},
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