Prof. Alireza Afshari

Danish Building Research Institute

Aalborg University, Denmark

Professor

Email: [email protected]

Qualifications

1999  Ph.D., Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

1987  M.S., Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

Publications (Selected)

1. Etemad, A., Maccarini, A., Finn, D., Afshari, A., Sood, D., & O’donnell, J. (2025). A Techno-economic Assessment Framework for District-Scale Thermal Source Networks Serving Existing Buildings. Energy and Buildings, 115737.
2. Ferrara, M., Bilardo, M., Bogatu, D. I., Lee, D., Khatibi, M., Rahnama, S., ... & Fabrizio, E. (2024). Review on Advanced Storage Control Applied to Optimized Operation of Energy Systems for Buildings and Districts: Insights and Perspectives. Energies, 17(14), 3371.
3. Rahnama, S., Khatibi, M., Maccarini, A., Farouq, M. M., Ahranjani, P. M., Fabrizio, E., ... & Afshari, A. (2024). A methodical approach for the design of thermal energy storage systems in buildings: An eight‐step methodology. Energy Storage, 6(2), e600.
4. Orlando, R., Afshari, A., & Fojan, P. (2023). Cellulose acetate-TiO2 and activated carbon electrospun composite fibre membranes for toluene removal. Journal of Industrial Textiles, 53, 15280837221150200.
5. Marigo, M., Maccarini, A., Zarrella, A., & Afshari, A. (2023). Fault impact analysis of ventilation systems in residential buildings: A simulation-based case study in Denmark. Energy and Buildings, 292, 113150.
6. Maccarini, A., Sotnikov, A., Sommer, T., Wetter, M., Sulzer, M., & Afshari, A. (2023). Influence of building heat distribution temperatures on the energy performance and sizing of 5th generation district heating and cooling networks. Energy, 275, 127457.
7. Rahnama, S., Hultmark, G., Rupnik, K., Vogler-Finck, P., & Afshari, A. (2023). Control logic for a novel HVAC system providing room-based indoor climate control in residential buildings. Journal of Building Engineering, 65, 105766.
8. Khatibi, M., Rahnama, S., Vogler-Finck, P., Bendtsen, J. D., & Afshari, A. (2023). Towards designing an aggregator to activate the energy flexibility of multi-zone buildings using a hierarchical model-based scheme. Applied Energy, 333, 120562.
9. Nourozi, B., Holmberg, S., Duwig, C., Afshari, A., Wargocki, P., Olesen, B., & Sadrizadeh, S. (2022). Heating energy implications of utilizing gas-phase air cleaners in buildings’ centralized air handling units. Results in Engineering, 16, 100619.
10. Mohammadabadi, A., Rahnama, S., & Afshari, A. (2022). Indoor occupancy detection based on environmental data using CNN-XGboost model: experimental validation in a residential building. Sustainability, 14(21), 14644.
11. Nasiri, F., Ooka, R., Haghighat, F., Shirzadi, N., Dotoli, M., Carli, R., ... & Sadrizadeh, S. (2022). Data analytics and information technologies for smart energy storage systems: A state-of-the-art review. Sustainable Cities and Society, 84, 104004.
12. Latif, H., Hultmark, G., Rahnama, S., Maccarini, A., & Afshari, A. (2022). Performance evaluation of active chilled beam systems for office buildings–A literature review. Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments, 52, 101999.
13. Paroutoglou, E., Fojan, P., Gurevich, L., & Afshari, A. (2022). Thermal properties of novel phase-change materials based on tamanu and coconut oil encapsulated in electrospun fiber matrices. Sustainability, 14(12), 7432.
14. Khatibi, M., Rahnama, S., Vogler-Finck, P., Bendtsen, J. D., & Afshari, A. (2022). Investigating the flexibility of a novel multi-zone air heating and ventilation system using model predictive control. Journal of Building Engineering, 49, 104100.
15. Orlando, R., Gao, Y., Fojan, P., Mo, J., & Afshari, A. (2021). Filtration performance of ultrathin electrospun cellulose acetate filters doped with TiO2 and activated charcoal. Buildings, 11(11), 557.
16. Kappelt, N., Russell, H. S., Kwiatkowski, S., Afshari, A., & Johnson, M. S. (2021). Correlation of respiratory aerosols and metabolic carbon dioxide. Sustainability, 13(21), 12203.
17. Xia, F., Gao, Y., Tian, E., Afshari, A., & Mo, J. (2021). Fast fabricating cross-linked nanofibers into flameproof metal foam by air-drawn electrospinning for electrostatically assisted particle removal. Separation and Purification Technology, 274, 119076.
18. Sadrizadeh, S., Aganovic, A., Bogdan, A., Wang, C., Afshari, A., Hartmann, A., ... & Cao, G. (2021). A systematic review of operating room ventilation. Journal of Building Engineering, 40, 102693.

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