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Membrane and Coating-Based Built Environmental Control Technologies

  • 1st Edition - October 28, 2025
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Li-Zhi Zhang, Ronghui Qi, Rongrong Cai, Chuanshuai Dong
  • Language: English

Membrane and Coating-Based Built Environmental Control Technologies addresses the urgent need for energy-saving and low-carbon solutions in the HVAC industry. With air condit… Read more

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Description

Membrane and Coating-Based Built Environmental Control Technologies addresses the urgent need for energy-saving and low-carbon solutions in the HVAC industry. With air conditioning accounting for a significant portion of energy consumption, this book explores technologies such as total heat recovery, air dehumidification, PM2.5 purification, and anti-frosting and anti-dewing. The utilization of membranes and coatings in these technologies has shown promising results in efficiency and indoor environment control. It provides a comprehensive overview of these advancements, including principles, material fabrications, performance analysis methods, and design guidelines.

The book fills the gap in the market by offering an up-to-date reference that covers traditional and novel applications of membranes and coatings. It includes applications in areas like total heat recovery, air humidification and dehumidification, PM2.5 filtration, anti-frosting, and self-cleaning. It also provides mathematical models and numerical schemes to address heat and mass transfer challenges. Overall, it serves as a valuable resource for professionals, researchers, and students in the field of built environmental control technologies.

Key features

  • Introduces novel membrane and coating technologies and materials for indoor air treatment
  • Applies multi-scale multi-phase models to analyze and solve heat and mass transport in components, providing a comprehensive understanding of the processes involved
  • Summarizes performance optimization guidelines and development directions, offering valuable insights for engineers in designing HVAC equipment

Readership

Scientists, engineers, practitioners, and students in membrane technology

Table of contents

1. An Introduction to Membrane and coating based Built Environmental Control Technologies

2. Membrane based total heat recovery

3. Membrane based air humidification

4. Membrane based air dehumidification

5. Falling film solution air dehumidification

6. PEM based air dehumidification

7. Electret fiber electrospun membrane for PM2.5 filtration

8. Superhydrophobic coatings for self cleaning

9. Superhydrophobic coatings for anti frosting

10. Membrane based solar driven desalination

11. Membrane based humidity to electricity/H2 conversion

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: October 28, 2025
  • Language: English

About the authors

LZ

Li-Zhi Zhang

Li-Zhi Zhang is a professor at the Key Lab of Heat Transfer and Energy Conversation at the South China University of Technology. He has worked with topics related to energy recovery and heat and mass transfer since 1992. His research interests include: membrane technologies; development of novel functional materials for built environment; self-cleaning surfaces. Professor Zhang has also authored more than 190 papers and 5 books internationally.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China

RQ

Ronghui Qi

Ronghui Qi works with falling films dehumidification technologies since 2000. Her research interests include: PEM dehumidification; humidity-to-energy conversion. She has been the principal investigators for numerous fundings like NSFC (Natural Science Foundation of China, Elite young scholar project); etc. She has published more than 60 SCI papers in international journals. She is the associate editor for International Journal of Green Energy.

Affiliations and expertise
South China University of Technology, China

RC

Rongrong Cai

Rongrong Cai workS with PM2.5 purification technologies since 2010. Her research interests include: PM2.5 purification technologies; superhydrophobic coating, anti-dusting. She has been the principal investigators for numerous fundings like NSFC (Natural Science Foundation of China); etc. She has published more than 60 SCI papers in international journals. She was invited to write editorials and perspectives for journals like Energy and Indoor and Built Environment several times.

Affiliations and expertise
South China University of Technology, China

CD

Chuanshuai Dong

Chuanshuai Dong works with desalination and dehumidification technologies since 2014. His research interests include: desalination and hollow fiber membrane technologies; falling film dehumidification. He has been the principal investigators for fundings like NSFC (Natural Science Foundation of China); etc. He has published more than 40 SCI papers in international journals. He has been awarded several invention awards.
Affiliations and expertise
South China University of Technology, China

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