**Meet the editors**

Chaouki Ghenai is an associate professor at the Sustainable and Renewable Energy Engineering Department, College of Engineering; a coordinator of the Sustainable Energy Development Research Group at the Research Institute for Sciences and Engineering; and the chairman of the Research Funding Department at the University of Sharjah. He received his PhD and master's degrees

in Mechanical Engineering from University of Orleans, France. Before joining the University of Sharjah, Dr. Ghenai was an assistant professor at Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, and a project manager at the Applied Research Center, Miami, Florida. He worked also as a postdoc at Cornell University (Ithaca, NY), Kansas State University (Manhattan, KS), and the University of California, Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA). Dr. Ghenai has published more than 100 research papers in technical journals, book chapters, and books. His research interests are renewable energy, energy efficiency, sustainability, combustion, biofuels, alternative fuels, clean combustion technologies, waste to energy, eco-design, energy-water nexus, energy planning and climate change mitigation assessment, modeling and simulation of microgird power systems, and air pollution.

Dr. Tareq Salameh has been an assistant professor in Sustainable and Renewable Energy Engineering Department (SREE) at the College of Engineering at the University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates since 2013. Dr. Salameh had gotten many scholarships and research grants from local and international organizations. He is a reviewer for different international

journals. He is a member in scientific committee for different conferences. His research interests focus on energy generation by conventional and renewable resources; mechanical, thermal, and electrical energy storage systems; hybrid and renewable energy systems; design of buildings and systems of high efficiency; nanotechnology for energy systems; simulation and modeling of energy systems and components; and numerical simulation and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) for the components of energy systems.

Contents

**Preface VII**

**Section 1 Solar Air Conditioning Systems 1**

Chapter 1 **Solar Air-Conditioning Systems 3**

**Materials 21**

**Confined Roofs 43**

Emna Aridhi, Hmida Bemri and Abdelkader Mami

Chapter 2 **Solar-Assisted HVAC Systems with Integrated Phase Change**

**Section 2 Absorption and Adsorption Air Conditioning Systems 41**

**Conditioning System with Solar Collectors for**

Yuridiana Rocio Galindo Luna, Rosenberg Javier Romero Domínguez, Jonathan Ibarra Bahena, Moises Montiel González, Jesús Cerezo Román, José Eduardo Jasso Almazán, Antonio Rodríguez Martínez, Karina Solano Olivares, Ana María Hernández Jasso, Sotsil Silva Sotelo, José Antonio García Ramos, Ariana

Mahmoud B. Elsheniti, Osama A. Elsamni, Raya K. Al-dadah, Saad

Chapter 3 **Design and Construction for Hydroxides Based Air**

Morales Flores and Brenda Rivas Herrea

Mahmoud, Eman Elsayed and Khaled Saleh

Chapter 4 **Adsorption Refrigeration Technologies 71**

Zhenjun Ma, Haoshan Ren, Wenye Lin and Shugang Wang
