Publications de Shanshan Hsieh

Planning Multi-Scale District Energy Systems with Hybrid Cooling Technologies and Decentralized Thermal Networks for Low Carbon Cities in the Tropics

Energy demand for cooling of buildings is projected to drastically increase in the next decades. Urban areas in tropical Asia are expected to contribute a major share to this growing demand. These areas are characterized by a high urban density and a diver ...

EPFL2021

Street grids for efficient district cooling systems in high-density cities

Shanshan Hsieh, Arno Schlueter

The feasibility of district cooling systems is linked to their efficiency, which is associated with their capital and operational costs. For reasons of ownership and maintenance, the piping network commonly follows the city's street layout. This paper exam ...

ELSEVIER2020

Identifying carbon emission reduction potentials of BIPV in high-density cities in Southeast Asia

Shanshan Hsieh, Arno Schlueter

We use life cycle analysis, urban building energy simulations and urban form generation to compare the operational carbon emissions of buildings with building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) in locations with different grid electricity mixes in Southeast A ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2019

Pilot studies on optimizing land use, building density and solar electricity generation in dense urban settings

François Maréchal, Shanshan Hsieh, Arno Schlueter

Previous studies have identified links between the urban form and the performance of urban energy systems. Land use and density are two important aspects of urban planning and design. This paper studies the relationship between these aspects and the perfor ...

UNIV POLITECNICA VALENCIA2018

Defining density and land uses under energy performance targets at the early stage of urban planning processes

François Maréchal, Shanshan Hsieh, Nils Christian Schüler, Arno Schlueter

The energy demand of cities is highly influenced by urban planning parameters such as urban density and land use. These parameters are mostly determined during early stages of planning. The effects of these parameters on the energy performance of districts ...

Elsevier2017