Table Of ContentGreen Energy and
Infrastructure
Green Energy and
Infrastructure
Securing a Sustainable Future
Edited by
Jacqueline A. Stagner and David S-K. Ting
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To the individuals who practice and foster
sustainability in their everyday living, securing a
sustainable future for those succeeding them.
Contents
Preface.......................................................................................................................ix
Acknowledgments .....................................................................................................xi
Editors ....................................................................................................................xiii
Contributors .............................................................................................................xv
Chapter 1 Energy for Buildings: Practices, Policies, and Prospects .....................1
G. T. Reader
Chapter 2 Green Design Effectiveness for a Mini
Automotive-Repair Facility ...........................................................35
Figen Balo and Hasan Polat
Chapter 3 Green Hospitals and Sustainability: Case of Companion
House of a Research Hospital ............................................................63
Figen Balo, Lutfu S. Sua, and Hasan Polat
Chapter 4 Indoor Environment and Well-Being: The Case of Academic
Workplace in Historic Building .........................................................93
Lina Seduikyte, Egle Staniskiene, Zivile Stankeviciute,
Indre Grazuleviciute-Vileniske, Laura Stasiuliene,
Paris Fokaides, and Tomas Sorius
Chapter 5 Properties and Conversion Technologies of Biomass ......................109
Yaning Zhang, Wenming Fu, Pingfei Xu, Bingxi Li, and
Baocheng Jiang
Chapter 6 Wind Resource Forecasting Error in Flat and Complex Terrains ....139
George Xydis and Evanthia A. Nanaki
Chapter 7 Wind Power Forecasting via Deep Learning Methods ....................157
Fazıl Gökgöz and Fahrettin Filiz
Chapter 8 Green Energy: Solar, Wind, Geothermal, Tidal Storage .................171
Manju Santhakumari
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Chapter 9 New Energy Mining: Compressed Air Energy Storage
in Abandoned Mines ........................................................................193
Bernardo Llamas, Belén Vallespir, Marcelo F. Ortega, and
Pedro Mora
Chapter 10 Hydrostatically Compensated Energy Storage Technology .............211
M. Ebrahimi, D. S.-K. Ting, R. Carriveau, and A. McGillis
Chapter 11 Bioconstruction and Harmonic Complexity of Biomimicry
Organisms ........................................................................................237
Gabriel Barbeta and Yomna Abdallah
Chapter 12 Back to the Basics: Return to the Origin, Gaudí and Nature ...........273
Alberto T. Estévez and Judith Urbano
Chapter 13 Triple Bottom Line Analysis, Methodology, and
Its Implementation ............................................................................287
Amit R. Patel, Prabir Sarkar, Himanshu Tyagi, and
Harpreet Singh
Index ......................................................................................................................337
Preface
More than half a century ago, C. S. Lewis wrote, “The task of the modern educator
is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts.” This is ever more relevant today.
To secure a sustainable future, we need to enhance the “irrigating of the deserts”
and teach young minds to do likewise. Reader breaks the ice with the first chapter,
“Energy for Buildings: Practices, Policies, and Prospects”, by highlighting the fact
that building energy is a dominant contributor to global energy usage and greenhouse
gas emissions. Within this context, he points out that the energy sector plays an
important role in realizing sustainable development goals embedded in the United
Nations plan to eliminate global poverty. To advance building energy, Balo and Polat
illustrate how sustainable building materials can simultaneously improve energy,
economic, and environmental bottom lines using a mini automotive-repair facility
as an example in Chapter 2, “Green Design Effectiveness for a Mini Automotive-
Repair Facility.” A companion house for a research hospital is used to demonstrate
the substantial energy improvement that can be realized via proper greening by Balo
et al. in Chapter 3, “Green Hospitals and Sustainability: Case of Companion House
of a Research Hospital.”
It would defeat the purpose if energy savings are realized at the expense of occu-
pant health and comfort. Seduikyte et al. caution that this undesirable consequence
happens in their case study in Chapter 4, “Indoor Environment and Well-being: the
Case of Academic Workplace in Historic Building.”
Biomass is a renewable energy which can be further “greened.” Zhang et al. dis-
close the underlying properties of biomass and their influence on furthering the energy
conversion technologies in Chapter 5, “Properties and Conversion Technologies of
Biomass.” Wind energy will continue to play a vital role in greening tomorrow, and
its progress leans on accurate assessment and forecasting.
Xydis and Nanaki timely convey “Wind Resource Forecasting Error in Flat and
Complex Terrains” in Chapter 6. One potent means to improve wind forecasting is
via deep learning methods as delineated by Gökgöz and Filiz in Chapter 7, “Wind
Power Forecasting via Deep Learning Methods.” Whether it is wind, solar, geo-
thermal, or tidal, storage can substantially improve the integration of these largely
intermittent energy sources.
Santhakumari discusses energy storage in terms of power balancing, grid stabil-
ity, and reliability in Chapter 8, “Green Energy: Solar, Wind, Geothermal, Tidal
Storage.” One cannot talk about energy storage without giving an account on
compressed air energy storage. In Chapter 9, Llamas et al. study abandoned coal
mines for their suitability for this purpose, “New Energy Mining: Compressed Air
Energy Storage in Abandoned Mines.” Also promising and arising on the horizon
is “Hydrostatically Compensated Energy Storage Technology,” as expounded by
Ebrahimi et al. in Chapter 10.
Green infrastructures encompasses the notion that they are in harmony and inte-
gration with both the spatial and temporal domains. Barbeta and Abdallah enlighten
us on the need to respect nature in our intervention in Chapter 11, “Bioconstruction
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