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Carbon neutral actions have dramatically changed the structure of the current energy market in the balance of carbon emissions and removals. In the past decades, building energy consumption has increased yearly and accounted for more than one-third of primary energy, contributing to a considerable part of total carbon emissions (40%). The built environment control in an energy-efficient way will determine the volume of the overall building energy consumption. Traditional control methods have been developed over the years but are still energy-intensive. However, in recent years, desiccant-based built environment control gained much more interest due to their flexible system structures and low energy consumption. The main drawback of this system lies in the poor performance of the selected desiccant, such as silica gel and zeolite, thus ongoing research on novel materials is indispensable. Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are novel nanocrystal materials that have varieties of tunable structures and enable customized structure design based on the specific application, and represent the cutting edge of the available porous materials. Most MOFs have a strong adsorption affinity on water vapor uptake and mild regeneration conditions. Therefore, the overall scope contributes to investigating the potential applications of novel materials such as MOFs to the built environment control. With the pursuit of energy-efficient moisture control, a series of discoveries have been concluded. The present thesis includes three parts: i) the investigation of the moisture buffering performance on MOFs; ii) the dynamic performance of MOF coatings in actual conditions; iii) the fabrication and optimization of a novel humidity pump using MOFs. In the first study, the moisture buffering performance of MOFs has been quantified by using experimental and numerical approaches. The experiments include the measurements of the practical moisture buffer value (MBVprac) and the determination of moisture properties of MOFs to calculate the ...
Carbon neutral actions have dramatically changed the structure of the current energy market in the balance of carbon emissions and removals. In the past decades, building energy consumption has increased yearly and accounted for more than one-third of primary energy, contributing to a considerable part of total carbon emissions (40%). The built environment control in an energy-efficient way will determine the volume of the overall building energy consumption. Traditional control methods have been developed over the years but are still energy-intensive. However, in recent years, desiccant-based built environment control gained much more interest due to their flexible system structures and low energy consumption. The main drawback of this system lies in the poor performance of the selected desiccant, such as silica gel and zeolite, thus ongoing research on novel materials is indispensable. Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are novel nanocrystal materials that have varieties of tunable structures and enable customized structure design based on the specific application, and represent the cutting edge of the available porous materials. Most MOFs have a strong adsorption affinity on water vapor uptake and mild regeneration conditions. Therefore, the overall scope contributes to investigating the potential applications of novel materials such as MOFs to the built environment control. With the pursuit of energy-efficient moisture control, a series of discoveries have been concluded. The present thesis includes three parts: i) the investigation of the moisture buffering performance on MOFs; ii) the dynamic performance of MOF coatings in actual conditions; iii) the fabrication and optimization of a novel humidity pump using MOFs. In the first study, the moisture buffering performance of MOFs has been quantified by using experimental and numerical approaches. The experiments include the measurements of the practical moisture buffer value (MBVprac) and the determination of moisture properties of MOFs to calculate the ...
Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) for energy-efficient indoor moisture control: Synthesis, characterization and applications
Zu, Kan (author)
2021-01-01
Zu , K 2021 , Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) for energy-efficient indoor moisture control: Synthesis, characterization and applications . Technical University of Denmark, Department of Civil Engineering .
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Electronic Resource
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690
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