Desiccant Heating, Ventilating, and Air-Conditioning Systems

Napoleon Enteria is a research specialist of the Building Research Institute, Japan; a visiting researcher at Tohoku University, Japan; and a founder and managing consultant of the Enteria Grün Energietechnik, Philippines. He was a scientist at the Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore of the National University of Singapore and a global center of excellence researcher at the Wind Engineering Research Center of the Tokyo Polytechnic University, Japan. His research activities in renewable energy systems, HVAC systems, and building sciences produced several international scientific and engineering papers in books, review journals, research journals, and conference proceedings. He has submitted and presented dozens of technical reports for collaborative projects with research institutes, universities, and companies in several countries and is regularly invited as reviewer for international journals in the field of energy systems, air-handling systems, and building performances. On occasion, he receives invitations to review research funding applications and gives technical and scientific comments on international scientific and engineering activities. He is a Member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) and, the International Solar Energy Society (ISES).

Hazim Awbi is professor emeritus of the University of Reading, United Kingdom, where he was a professor of Building Environmental Science, director of the Technologies of Sustainable Built Environments Centre, and director of the Indoor Environment and Energy Research Group. His research interests are in room air-flow analysis and modeling, computational fluid dynamics, indoor air quality, air distribution systems, low-energy building environmental control systems, heat transfer, and energy storage. He is the author of Ventilation of Buildings (Taylor and Francis), editor of Ventilation