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Covers the fundamental aspects of VRF systems
Discusses different VRF systems’ designs
Presents advanced thermodynamic, economic, and environmental analyses
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Takao SAWACHI is the president of the Building Research Institute (BRI). He conducted research on the lifestyles of residents and energy consumption. He also engages in research activities on natural and mechanical ventilation to maintain indoor air quality. He was involved in the Japanese Building Energy Codes, as he conducted research on the real energy efficiency of equipment for space conditioning, domestic hot water, lighting, and so on, mainly through full-scale experiments covering residential and non-residential systems. He has been engaged in developing online programs to calculate energy consumption for purposes other than home and office appliances. The programs he has developed are currently being used in many Japanese national policies to evaluate the energy performance of buildings. Variable refrigerant flow (VRF) systems are one of the systems whose actual energy performance is being evaluated.
Kiyoshi SAITO is a professor at the Department of Applied Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering and a dean of Sustainable Energy and Environmental Society Open Innovation Research Organization, Waseda University, Japan. He is the president of the Japan Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Testing Laboratory and is the vice president of the E2 Division of the International Institute of Refrigeration. He has almost 30 years of research experience and has investigated all types of heat pump systems, including compression, absorption, and adsorption. His research interests include system dynamics, heat transfer performance, heat pump system optimization, artificial intelligence, and the internet of things. He has developed actual systems and simulators, such as a heat transformer type steam generator, a hybrid type liquid desiccant humidity control system, a heat pump dynamic simulator, and an LCCP simulator.
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Book Title: Variable Refrigerant Flow Systems
Book Subtitle: Advances and Applications of VRF
Editors: Napoleon Enteria, Takao Sawachi, Kiyoshi Saito
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-6833-4
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-19-6832-7Published: 01 February 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-19-6835-8Published: 02 February 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-981-19-6833-4Published: 31 January 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 245
Number of Illustrations: 39 b/w illustrations, 100 illustrations in colour
Topics: Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering, Building Construction and Design, Mechanical Engineering