Abstract

The aim of this paper is to present a general bibliographic review about recent scientific papers focused on the design and operation of air conditioning systems in green and smart buildings.The suggested review is developed using tools offered by the Scopus academic research directory, with a defined search criteria. Furthermore, the VOSviewer science bibliometric analysis software has been used. This paper has several reviews of cooling and heating systems existing or under development available for residential buildings (green and smart buildings) and some initiatives and research projects from recent years. The present paper is an academic research guide for engineers, architects, and students interested in designing, constructing and efficiently managing the cooling processes of green and smart buildings. Economic powers characterized by large megacities of countries such as the United States of America, China, Italy, Malaysia, Germany and Australia; Nowadays, increasing energy efficiency and decreasing carbon footprint of current and future buildings, both green and smart is considered more important. The most frequent fields of research in scientific contributions related to the cooling of green buildings are: sustainable development, energy efficiency and the construction industry; while in smart buildings they are: energy efficiency, smart grids, energy management .

Highlights

  • Facing climate change and its consequences for the environment has been one of the greatest challenges of modern life

  • While commercial and residential buildings release around 40% of total electricity-related Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions in developed nations (Zhang et al, 2020); (Tian et al, 2019) additional emissions stem from the extensive use of raw materials, industrial processes to manufacture construction products, and the subsequent transportation of these products (Bixler et al, 2019)

  • This scientific contribution based on a critical bibliographic review of scientific publications focused on the design and operation of air conditioning systems in green and smart buildings

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Introduction

Facing climate change and its consequences for the environment has been one of the greatest challenges of modern life. The built environment is by far the dominant sector responsible for the carbon footprint of contemporary civilization (Hidalgo and Perez, 2017). The foregoing is fundamentally due to the fact that the built environment represents the intersection of three large-scale polluting processes: energy, transport and buildings (Hidalgo and Perez, 2017); (Hidalgo and Guerra, 2016). While commercial and residential buildings release around 40% of total electricity-related Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions in developed nations (Zhang et al, 2020); (Tian et al, 2019) additional emissions stem from the extensive use of raw materials, industrial processes to manufacture construction products, and the subsequent transportation of these products (Bixler et al, 2019).

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