Explores sustainable high-performance cooling through liquid-vapor phase change, novel materials, and innovative cooling systems, aiming to address the challenges of increasing cooling demand and carbon emissions.
Covers the basics of HVAC systems, including thermal comfort assessment, psychrometric processes, and key components, with practical examples and exercises.
Delves into IAQ controls, covering ventilation strategies, filtration, and air cleaning, emphasizing the impact of indoor climate on human health and productivity.
Explores passive bioclimatic strategies for energy-efficient and comfortable buildings, emphasizing solar heat management, thermal mass storage, and natural ventilation.
Explores challenges in new data centers, large internet service growth, power consumption, availability, storage management, software layers, and energy efficiency.
Covers the use of electrochemically active metasurfaces for effective multispectral radiative heat management and their implications for energy efficiency and dynamic thermal regulation.