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EU energy policy is more and more promoting a resilient, efficient and sustainable energy system. Several agreements have been signed in the last few months that set ambitious goals in terms of energy efficiency and emission reductions and to reduce the energy consumption in buildings. These actions are expected to fulfill the goals negotiated at the Paris Agreement in 2015. The successful development of this ambitious energy policy needs to be supported by scientific knowledge: a huge effort must be made in order to develop more efficient energy conversion technologies based both on renewables and fossil fuels. Similarly, researchers are also expected to work on the integration of conventional and novel systems, also taking into account the needs for the management of the novel energy systems in terms of energy storage and devices management. Therefore, a multi-disciplinary approach is required in order to achieve these goals. To ensure that the scientists belonging to the different disciplines are aware of the scientific progress in the other research areas, specific Conferences are periodically organized. One of the most popular conferences in this area is the Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems (SDEWES) Series Conference. The 12th Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems Conference was recently held in Dubrovnik, Croatia. The present Special Issue of Energies, specifically dedicated to the 12th SDEWES Conference, is focused on five main fields: energy policy and energy efficiency in smart energy systems, polygeneration and district heating, advanced combustion techniques and fuels, biomass and building efficiency.

district heating and cooling --- sustainable development --- renewable energy --- smart cities

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536.33 --- Solar radiation --- -#KVIV --- Absorption, Atmospheric --- Atmospheric absorption of solar radiation --- Insolation --- Radiation, Solar --- Electromagnetic waves --- Heating and cooling by radiation --- Maps --- 536.33 Heating and cooling by radiation --- #KVIV

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Ground source heat pump systems. --- Earth heat pump systems --- Geothermal heat pumps --- Geothermal heating and cooling systems --- Geothermal water heat pump systems --- Geothermal engineering --- Heat pumps

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Air-Conditioning in Modern American Architecture, 1890–1970, documents how architects made environmental technologies into resources that helped shape their spatial and formal aesthetic. In doing so, it sheds important new light on the ways in which mechanical engineering has been assimilated into the culture of architecture as one facet of its broader modernist project.Tracing the development and architectural integration of air-conditioning from its origins in the late nineteenth century to the advent of the environmental movement in the early 1970s, Joseph M. Siry shows how the incorporation of mechanical systems into modernism’s discourse of functionality profoundly shaped the work of some of the movement’s leading architects, such as Dankmar Adler, Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Gordon Bunshaft, and Louis Kahn. For them, the modernist ideal of functionality was incompletely realized if it did not wholly assimilate heating, cooling, ventilating, and artificial lighting. Bridging the history of technology and the history of architecture, Siry discusses air-conditioning’s technical and social history and provides case studies of buildings by the master architects who brought this technology into the conceptual and formal project of modernism.A monumental work by a renowned expert in American modernist architecture, this book asks us to see canonical modernist buildings through a mechanical engineering–oriented lens. It will be especially valuable to scholars and students of architecture, modernism, the history of technology, and American history.

Architecture --- Air conditioning --- History --- United States. --- Air conditioning. --- Architecture. --- Building ventilation. --- Energy and Architecture. --- Environmental Controls. --- Frank Lloyd Wright. --- HVAC. --- Heating and cooling. --- Louis I. Kahn. --- Modern Architecture.

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"Covers residential geothermal heating and cooling, including various system options and installation configurations, costs and payback issues, performance standards, and contractors. Also examines how energy-efficient, non-polluting geothermal heat pumps work and how to integrate solar energy"--

Ground source heat pump systems --- Civil & Environmental Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Civil Engineering --- Earth heat pump systems --- Geothermal heat pumps --- Geothermal heating and cooling systems --- Geothermal water heat pump systems --- Geothermal engineering --- Heat pumps