Hazards of pollutants and ventilation control strategy in industrial workshops: Current state and future trend

X Zhao, Y Yin - Building and Environment, 2024 - Elsevier
Industries such as metallurgy, chemical engineering, metal products, building materials,
welding, and nuclear engineering inevitably emit high-strength pollutants (solid and liquid …

Effective ventilation and air disinfection system for reducing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection risk in office buildings

S Srivastava, X Zhao, A Manay, Q Chen - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2021 - Elsevier
During the COVID-19 pandemic, an increasing amount of evidence has suggested that the
virus can be transmitted through the air inside buildings. The ventilation system used to …

Approaches in CFD modeling of respiratory droplet dispersion–issues and challenges

AA Sedighi, F Haghighat, F Nasiri, S Cao… - Sustainable Cities and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Airborne viruses can be transmitted from infected person to healthy one through small
respiratory droplets. Comprehensive information on the dispersion pattern of saliva droplets …

HVAC systems for environmental control to minimize the COVID-19 infection

J Ding, CW Yu, SJ Cao - Indoor and Built Environment, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
The outbreak of pneumonia caused by 2019 Novel Coronavirus arises significant concern
for virus transmission and control. The control of the indoor environment or public-enclosed …

Implementation and visualization of artificial intelligent ventilation control system using fast prediction models and limited monitoring data

C Ren, SJ Cao - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2020 - Elsevier
Coupling modelling and monitoring has always been a very challenging task aiming for
indoor air pollution control towards the construction of safe, healthy and energy-efficient …

Sustainable design of courtyard environment: From the perspectives of airborne diseases control and human health

J Leng, Q Wang, K Liu - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2020 - Elsevier
Courtyards have functioned as an effective passive architectural design strategy for various
climate conditions, especially popular in hot-humid climates. Sustainable and delicate …

Graph neural network-based spatio-temporal indoor environment prediction and optimal control for central air-conditioning systems

J Zhang, F Xiao, A Li, T Ma, K Xu, H Zhang, R Yan… - Building and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Model-based optimal control has proven its effectiveness in optimizing the
performance of central air-conditioning systems in terms of thermal comfort and energy …

Vision of China's future urban construction reform: In the perspective of comprehensive prevention and control for multi disasters

J Wang - Sustainable cities and society, 2021 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused huge deaths, massive damage and losses around the
world. Looking back in history, the motivation for construction and development of cities was …

Optimal design of building environment with hybrid genetic algorithm, artificial neural network, multivariate regression analysis and fuzzy logic controller

T Zhang, Y Liu, Y Rao, X Li, Q Zhao - Building and Environment, 2020 - Elsevier
Computational cost poses a major obstacle to the design of indoor environments with the
current optimal method and computational fluid dynamics (CFD). A novel optimization …

Sensor deployment strategy using cluster analysis of Fuzzy C-Means Algorithm: Towards online control of indoor environment's safety and health

SJ Cao, J Ding, C Ren - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2020 - Elsevier
Sensor monitoring plays a very important role in indoor environment control and energy
efficiency. However, it is always a challenging task when discussing the methods and …