Nan Zhou

ORCID: 0000-0002-9613-207X
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Research Areas
  • Environmental Impact and Sustainability
  • Sustainable Building Design and Assessment
  • Building Energy and Comfort Optimization
  • Energy Efficiency and Management
  • Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies
  • Smart Grid Energy Management
  • Climate Change Policy and Economics
  • Energy, Environment, Agriculture Analysis
  • Integrated Energy Systems Optimization
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Urban Heat Island Mitigation
  • Energy, Environment, Economic Growth
  • Microgrid Control and Optimization
  • Urban Green Space and Health
  • Wind and Air Flow Studies
  • Electric Vehicles and Infrastructure
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Urban Transport and Accessibility
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies
  • Islanding Detection in Power Systems
  • Noise Effects and Management
  • Vehicle emissions and performance
  • Cervical and Thoracic Myelopathy
  • Energy and Environmental Systems

University College London
2007-2025

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
2015-2024

National Renewable Energy Laboratory
2024

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
2024

University of Malaya
2024

Weatherford College
2023

Innovation Team (China)
2023

Zhejiang Normal University
2023

Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
2011-2016

North China Electric Power University
2013-2016

Fully decarbonizing global industry is essential to achieving climate stabilization, and reaching net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050–2070 necessary limit warming 2 °C. This paper assembles evaluates technical policy interventions, both on the supply side demand side. It identifies measures that, employed together, can achieve industrial in required timeframe. Key supply-side technologies include energy efficiency (especially at system level), carbon capture, electrification,...

10.1016/j.apenergy.2020.114848 article EN cc-by Applied Energy 2020-03-29

Abstract Cement plays a dual role in the global carbon cycle like sponge: its massive production contributes significantly to present-day anthropogenic CO 2 emissions, yet hydrated products gradually reabsorb substantial amounts of atmospheric (carbonation) future. The this sponge effect along cement (including production, use, and demolition) emissions mitigation, however, remains hitherto unexplored. Here, we quantify effects demand- supply-side mitigation measures considering...

10.1038/s41467-020-17583-w article EN cc-by Nature Communications 2020-07-29

Since the energy crisis in 1960s, crucial research and activities were spurred to improve efficiency decrease environmental pollution. To deal with various problems construction industry are facing, concept of green buildings (GBs) has been gradually shaped put forward all over world, building rating systems (GBRSs) have developed. The GBs covers a wide range elements, its definition is constantly updated as develops. This paper compares development backgrounds statuses countries. It also...

10.3390/su11195385 article EN Sustainability 2019-09-29

The residential sector is the third-largest energy consumer and emitter globally as such at forefront of transition net-zero emissions pathway. To accelerate pace decarbonization buildings, this study first to present a bottom-up assessment framework integrated with decomposing structural decomposition method evaluate emission patterns process building operations in 56 countries spanning 12 regions worldwide from 2000 2020. results show that (1) operational carbon intensity global buildings...

10.1016/j.adapen.2023.100145 article EN cc-by Advances in Applied Energy 2023-06-04

10.1016/j.crsus.2024.100154 article EN cc-by-nc-nd Cell Reports Sustainability 2024-08-01

Artificial intelligence has emerged as a technology to enhance productivity and improve life quality. However, its role in building energy efficiency carbon emission reduction not been systematically studied. This study evaluated artificial intelligence's potential the sector, focusing on medium office buildings United States. A methodology was developed assess quantify emissions reductions. Key areas identified were equipment, occupancy influence, control operation, design construction. Six...

10.1038/s41467-024-50088-4 article EN cc-by Nature Communications 2024-07-14

10.1016/j.ecolind.2014.09.018 article EN publisher-specific-oa Ecological Indicators 2014-09-21

Cities are not only major contributors to global climate change but also stand at the forefront of impact. Quantifying and assessing risk potentially induced by has great significance for cities undertake positive adaptation prevention. However, most previous studies focus on global, national or regional dimensions, a few have attempted examine an urban scale even less in case recent literature review. As result, quantitative assessment remains highly challenging. To fill this gap, article...

10.1016/j.rser.2020.110415 article EN cc-by-nc-nd Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 2020-09-28
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