Using Renewable Energies in Buildings Heating and Cooling Supply, Automation, Executed Examples

This textbook helps use regenerative systems for heating and cooling effectively. Integration and automation schemes provide a quick overview. Practical examples clearly show standard solutions for the integration of regenerative energy sources. For the 2nd edition, improvements have been made to the text and illustrations, and references to standards have been updated. Control questions at the end of the main chapters serve to consolidate the understanding of the content.

Introduction to the use of renewable energy sources.- Basics of the use of renewable energy sources in buildings.- Energy supply from renewable energy sources.- Storage systems.- Automation of systems for heat and cold supply from renewable energy sources.- Function monitoring and yield control.- Automation devices and their connection to building automation.

The editor Dipl.-Ing. Elmar Bollin has been a professor at Offenburg University of Applied Sciences since 1993 and is a long-standing member of the Control Engineering Working Group.
All authors are university professors and members of the Control Engineering Working Group.