Proceedings from 2022
Recursive Bayesian Calibration of Data-Driven Archetype Building Energy Models for Residential Sector: Application to a Research House, Seyed Matin Abtahi, Andreas K. Athienitis, and Benoit Delcroix
Contagion Risk Assessment For COVID-19 Variants With A Dynamic Approach For A Multizone Building Model Of University Classrooms, Riccardo Albertin, Giovanni Pernigotto, and Andrea Gasparella
Assessment Of Short-Term Aquifer Thermal Energy Storage For Energy Management In Greenhouse Horticulture: Modeling And Optimization, Queralt Altes-Buch, Tanguy Robert, Sylvain Quoilin, and Vincent Lemort
A Review on Carbon Emissions of Ultra-High-Performance Fiber Reinforced Concrete as a Building Construction Material, Syed Muhammad Aqib and Z. John Ma
District-level validation of a shoeboxing algorithm for Urban Building Energy Modeling, Federico Battini, Giovanni Pernigotto, and Andrea Gasparella
Modeling Air Handling Units to Create a Diverse Fault Dataset for FDD Innovation: Lessons Learned and Recommendations, Armando Casillas, Yimin Chen, Guanjing Lin, Jessica Granderson, Sen Huang, and Zhelun Chen
Building Energy Model Calibration with Functional Inputs and Outputs for Performance Monitoring, Thomas Cerbelaud, Bruno Duplessis, Pascal Stabat, and Riad Ziour
Fault Detection and Diagnostic Method Based on Evolving Data-driven Model for Radiant Heating and Cooling Systems, Sujit Dahal, Liping Wang, and James Braun
Peak Demand Limiting Packaged Rooftop HVAC Unit Coordination, Joshua Devenezia, Todd Rossi, and Michael Muller
Development of a Camera-based Tool to Monitor Non-binary Occupants’ Interaction with Windows and Shadings, Julian Donges, Federica Morandi, Alessandro Prada, Francesca Cappelletti, and Andrea Gasparella
Cooling Concepts for Residential Buildings: A Comparison Under Climate Change Scenarios, Essam Elnagar and Vincent Lemort
Energy Model of an Air Source Heat Pump to Explore Performance Improvements under Cold Conditions: a Python Framework, Conrado Ermel, Marcus V.A. Bianchi, and Paulo S. Schneider
Hybrid Modeling Approach For Better Identification Of Building Thermal Network Model And Improved Prediction, Sang woo Ham and Donghun Kim
Demonstration of Thermal Energy Storage System with Salt Hydrate Phase Change Material Composite, Jason Robert Hirschey, Kyle R. Gluesenkamp, and Samuel Graham
A Framework for Analyzing Widespread Grid Intervening Technologies: A Case Study of Heat Pump-Integrated Thermal Energy Storage Systems in Buildings, Jason Robert Hirschey, Richard A. Simmons, Tim J. Laclair, Kyle R. Gluesenkamp, and Samuel Graham
Evaluation of a Graphene Enhanced Photocatalytic Oxidation Device, Paul Gerard Hoertz, Stephen Kujak, and Kathleen Owen
Data Analytics for Evaluating Campus Energy Use, Whitman Jerman, Soowon Chang, and William Hutzel
Object Tracking-based Droplet Characterization on High Flowrate Electrospray for PM Removal, Minkyu Jung, Soyeon Kim, Donik Ku, Sanghun Jeong, Soojin Bae, Gijeong Seo, and Minsung Kim
Developing Learning-Based Models for Occupant Centric Control, Richard Lamont Kimball, Jin Wen, Zheng O'Niell, Tao Yang, and Yicheng Li
Optimal Load Shifting for Multiple ON/OFF Air Conditioning Units: How to Avoid Unnecessary Peak for Precooling?, Donghun Kim and James Braun
Generalized Disjunctive Programming-based, Mixed Integer Linear MPC Formulation for Optimal Operation of a District Energy System for PV Self-consumption and Grid Decarbonization: Field Implementation, Donghun Kim, Tianzhen Hong, and Mary Ann Piette
Experimental Study of Electrospray for Exhaust Gas Treatment, Soyeon Kim, Minkyu Jung, Sanghun Jeong, Donik Ku, Soojin Bae, Gijeong Seo, and Minsung Kim
Evaluation of a Gaseous Hydrogen Peroxide Generating Device, Stephen Kujak, Paul Gerard Hoertz, and Kathleen Owen
Outdoor Comfort in Public Spaces, a Critical Review, Mingliang Li, Hongxi Yin, Ming Qu, and Ian Trivers
Assessing EMIS Benefits: A New Field Evaluation Protocol Offers Rigor and Flexibility, Guanjing Lin, Eliot Crowe, Valerie Nibler, and Jessica Granderson
Performance Modeling and Analysis of a Thermoelectric Building Envelope for Space Heating, Xiaoli Liu, Ming Qu, Kazuaki Yazawa, Jorge Kohanoff, Piotr Chudzinski, Lorenzo Stella, Brian Norton, Niall Holmes, Ruchita Jani, Hongxi Yin, and Conrad Johnston
Comparison Study Of High-performance Rule-based HVAC Control With Deep Reinforcement Learning-based Control In A Multi-zone VAV System, Xing Lu, Yangyang Fu, Shichao Xu, Qi Zhu, Zheng O’Neill, and Zhiyao Yang
Operating Cost Assessment of Space Conditioning and Water Heating Technologies in a Residential Building Across the United States, Zechao Lu, James E. Braun, and Davide Ziviani
A Luminance-based Approach For Inferring Personal Daylight Preferences Using A New Composite Similarity Index, Dongjun Mah, Jie Xiong, and Athanasios Tzempelikos
Preliminary Analysis On The Sensitivity To The Four Comfort Domains Of People With Autism Spectrum Condition, Arianna Marzi, Luca Zaniboni, Marco Caniato, and Andrea Gasparella
A Heuristic Model Predictive Control Method to Activate the Energy Flexibility of School Buildings, Navid Morovat, Andreas K Athienitis, and José Agustín Candanedo
Numerical Investigation of Solar and Geothermal Powered Desiccant Assisted Air Conditioning in Full-Year Operation, Peter Niemann and Arne Speerforck
Field-test performance of Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFC) for residential cogeneration applications, Nicolas Paulus and Vincent Lemort
Assessment Of The Accuracy Of Solar Irradiance Models In Mountain Locations: The Case Of Bolzano, Italy, Giovanni Pernigotto, Alessandro Prada, and Andrea Gasparella
Investigating the Quality of the Correlation Between Indoor Environmental Factors and Human Perception, Ilaria Pittana, Federica Morandi, Francesca Cappelletti, and Andrea Gasparella
Lagged-kNN Based Data Imputation Approach for Multi-Stream Building Systems Data, Ojas Pradhan, David Hälleberg, Zhelun Chen, Jin Wen, Teresa Wu, K. Selcuk Candan, and Zheng O'Neill
Model Predictive Control for a Grid-interactive Efficiency Thermal-storage-integrated Heat Pump System, Liang Shi, Ming Qu, Xiaobing Liu, Jin Dong, Borui Cui, and Lingshi Wang
Smart Low-cost Thermal Imaging Acquisition Towards Personal Comfort Prediction, Ati Soleimanijavid and Iason Konstantzos
PCM Material Selection For Heat Pump Integrated With Thermal Energy Storage For Demand Response in Residential Buildings, Sara Sultan, Tugba Turnaoglu, Damilola Akamo, Jason Hirschey, Tim Laclair, Xiaobing Liu, and Kyle R. Gluesenkamp
A Novel Hybrid Modeling Method for Predicting Energy Use of Hydronic Radiant Slab Systems, Liping Wang, Lichen Wu, and James Braun
Proceedings from 2021
Developing a Framework for Determining Optimum Dispatch of Energy to a Building from Conventional and Renewable Sources, Sultan Ahmad and William Travis Horton
Effect of Inlet Duct Design on Fan Performance of Indoor Air Handling Units with Pull-Through Fan Configuration (ASHRAE RP-1743), Khaled I. Alghamdi and Christian K. Bach
Development of a shoeboxing approach for Urban Building Energy Modeling, Federico Battini, Giovanni Pernigotto, and Andrea Gasparella
3D CFD Simulation of a New Ventilated Roof, Michele Calati, Luca Doretti, Cristiano Gatto, and Simone Mancin
A Data-driven Model Development for Generalized Building Energy Predictions, Tao Cao, Lei Gao, Vikrant C. Aute, and Yunho Hwang
Performance Evaluation of Three Virtual Metering Methods to Estimate Zone-level Perimeter Heater Energy Requirement, Darwish Darwazeh, Jean Duquette, and Burak Gunay
Reinforcement Learning for Building Management Systems, Parastoo Delgoshaei, Amanda Pertzborn, and Mohammad Heidarinejad
The Role of Occupant Behavior Models in Multi-Objective Optimization Analysis, Julian Donges, Alessandro Prada, Francesca Cappelletti, and Andrea Gasparella
Analysis of Automated Fault Detection and Diagnostics Records as an Indicator of HVAC Fault Prevalence: Methodology and Preliminary Results, Amir Ebrahimifakhar, David Yuill, Amanda Smith, Jessica Granderson, Eliot Crowe, Yimin Chen, and Hayden Reeve
Recurrent Neural Network-based Economic MPC Applied to Building HVAC Systems, Matthew Ellis and Venkatesh Chinde
Optimization of Multi-zone Building HVAC Energy Consumption by Utilizing Fuzzy Model Based Predictive Controller, Ahmad Esmaeilzadeh, Brian Deal, Aghil Yousefi-Koma, and Mohammad Reza Zakerzadeh
Enabling Solar Power with Residential Water Heater Load-Shifting, Celeste Fieberg
Standard Testing Protocols for CO2 Sensors and CO2-based Demand Control Ventilation Systems, Antonea Frasier, Frederick Meyers, Derrick Ross, Theresa Pistochini, and Matthew J. Ellis
Adaptive Grey-Box Models for Model Predictive Building Control Using the Unscented Kalman Filter, Svenne Freund and Gerhard Schmitz
Pathways to Decarbonization of Residential Heating, Alex Fridlyand, Paul Glanville, and Michael Garrabrant
Fault Detection and Diagnosis for Residential HVAC Systems using Transient Cloud-based Thermostat Data, Fangzhou Guo and Bryan P. Rasmussen
Towards a Techno-Economic Analysis of PCM-Integrated Hybrid HVAC Systems, Dre Helmns, David Blum, Armando Casillas, Anand Prakash, Jonathan Woolley, David Vernon, Caton Mande, Michael Woodcox, and Spencer Dutton
Thermal Charging Rate of Composite Wax-Expanded Graphite Phase Change Materials, Jason Robert Hirschey, Navin Kumar, Tim LaClair, Kyle R. Gluesenkamp, and Samuel Graham
Review of Low-Cost Organic and Inorganic Phase Change Materials with Phase Change Temperature between 0°C and 65°C, Jason Robert Hirschey, Navin Kumar, Tugba Turnaoglu, Kyle R. Gluesenkamp, and Samuel Graham
Integration of Phase Change Material-Based Storage in Air Distribution Systems to Increase Building Power Flexibility, Philani Hlanze, Aly Elhefny, Zhimin Jiang, Jie Cai, and Hamidreza Shabgard
Design of Net Zero Energy Environmental Engineering Building in Peru, William Hutzel, Pedro Flores-Larico, Travis Horton, and Mark Zimpfer
Environmental Index for Real Time Feedback on Biowall Indoor Air Quality, William Hutzel, Hengyu Liu, and Jun Ho Kim
Technical and Economic Analysis of a Residential Heat Pump with Photovoltaic Solar Panels in Self-Consumption for Space Heating, Cooling and DHW Production, Pedro Jorquera Ferrat and Michèle Mondot
Multi-criteria Evaluation Of River Source Heat Pump Systems In Terms Of Life Cycle Performance, Yujun Jung and Hoseong Lee
Modeling of the NIST Intelligent Building Agents Labratory, Adam Jacob Kopach
Assessment of Metal-Hydride Energy Storage Coupled with Heat Pumps and Solar PV for Residential Cooling and Heating, Patrick Krane, Davide Ziviani, James E. Braun, Neera Jain, and Amy Marconnet
Novel Dishwasher with Thermal Storage and Thermoelectric Heat Recovery, Navin Kumar, Kyle R. Gluesenkamp, Joseph Rendall, Viral Patel, Tony Gehl, Ahmad Abu-Heiba, Tugba Turnaoglu, Guolian Wu, and Raveendran Vaidhyanathan
Simulation-based Energy and Daylighting Impact Assessment of Integrated Shading Devices and Lighting Controls in Commercial Buildings, Niraj Kunwar and Mahabir Singh Bhandari
Material Selection and Sizing of a Thermoelectric Generator (TEG) for Power Generation in a Self-Powered Heating System, Tim J. LaClair, Kyle R. Gluesenkamp, Hsin Wang, Ahmad Abuheiba, Praveen Cheekatamarla, Sandeep Alavandi, Hamid Abbasi, David Cygan, Alexander Kirk, and Uttam Ghoshal
A Comparison of Interpolation Methods in Fast Fluid Dynamics, Eric Leonard, Hongtao Qiao, and Saleh Nabi
Pattern Analysis of Dynamic Grid Incentives and the Implications on Optimal Control of Building Thermal Energy Storage, Lily X. Li and Gregory S. Pavlak
Fault “Auto-correction” for HVAC Systems: A Preliminary Study, Guanjing Lin, Marco Pritoni, Yimin Chen, Christopher Weyandt, Raphael Vitti, and Jessica Granderson
Characteristics of Graphite and MnO2 Enhanced Cement-Based Thermoelectric Composite for Low-Temperature Applications, Xiaoli Liu, Ming(1) Qu, and Alan Phong Tran Nguyen
A Three-Dimensional Transient Model for Evaluating the Performance of Cement-Based Thermoelectric Module, Xiaoli Liu, Ming Qu, and Kazuaki Yazawa
The Case for DC: Motivation of Modern Topologies, DC-Powered Solutions, and Applications within Residential Environments, Jonathan Ore, Fatih Meral, Davide Ziviani, and Eckhard Groll
Development Of Climate Classification Through Hierarchical Clustering For Building Energy Simulation, Giovanni Pernigotto, Andrea Gasparella, and Jan Hensen
Demand Side Management and Battery Storage Utilization to Increase PV Self-consumption of a Modulating Heat Pump, Maria Pinamonti, Alessandro Prada, and Paolo Baggio
A Unified MPC Formulation for Control of Commercial HVAC Systems in Multiple Climate Zones, Naren Srivaths Raman, Bo Chen, and Prabir Barooah
Simulation Of Efficiency Of Different Configurations Of Residential Hybrid Heating Systems Combining Boiler And Heat Pump, Erica Roccatello, Alessandro Prada, Paolo Baggio, Cristian Zambrelli, and Marco Baratieri
A Practical Data-Driven Multi-Model Approach to Model Predictive Control: Results from Implementation in an Institutional Building, Etienne Saloux, Nunzio Cotrufo, and José Candanedo
Field Evaluation of Solar Thermal Air Collectors, Zachary Schreiber, James Rieser, and William Hutzel
Development and Evaluation of Low-Cost CO2 Sensors for Buildings, Zachary A. Siefker, Abhi R. Boyina, Xikang Zhao, John N. Hodul, James E. Braun, George T C Chiu, Bryan W. Boudouris, and Jeffrey F. Rhoads
Analysis of Residential Time-of-Use Utility Rate Structures and Economic Implications for Thermal Energy Storage, Sara Sultan, Jason Hirschey, Kyle R. Gluesenkamp, and Samuel Graham
Model Based Co-Simulation Platform for Integrated Building System Control and Design Optimization, Jian Sun and Bo Shen
Superheat Prediction & Fault Diagnostics of HVAC from Simple Temperature Measurements Using Big Data Approach, Mehari Tesfay, Fadi Alsaleem, Kevin Sinkar, and Parthiban Arunasalam
Community Heat Pump Systems Utilizing Oil-Free Compressor Technology, Drew Scott Turner and Davide Ziviani
A Modeling Approach to Characterize the Demand Flexibility of the Air Distribution System in Commercial Buildings, Elvin Vindel, Mario Berges, and Burcu Akinci
Energy Modeling and Energy Efficiency Opportunities for a Public Library Building in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, Amarnath Warty and Sunil Mehendale
Elementary School Renovation to Achieve Net Zero Energy, Songhao Wu, Brian Tedeschi, Zach Schreiber, William J. Hutzel, and Luciana Debs
Design and Development of a Human Building Interaction Laboratory, Sourabh Yadav, Parveen Dhillon, Orkan Kurtulus, Charles Baxter, Davide Ziviani, W Travis Horton, Panagiota Karava, and James E. Braun
Assessing the Value of Uncertainty-Aware Transactive Control Framework for Commercial and Residential Buildings, Min Gyung Yu and Gregory Pavlak
A Whole Building Life-Cycle Assessment Approach to Support Decision-Making for Sustainable Buildings, Hao Zhang, Jie Cai, and James E. Braun
Local Sensing and Personalized Thermal Comfort: Model-Predictive vs Conventional Control Approaches, Hejia Zhang, Xiaoqi Liu, Seungjae Lee, and Athanasios Tzempelikos
Proceedings from 2018
Domestic Dishwasher Simulated Energy Efficiency Evaluation Using Thermoelectric Heat Pump for Water Heating and Dish Drying, Ahmad Abu-Heiba, Mini Malhotra, Kyle R Gluesenkamp, and Viral Patel
Building Flexibility Estimation and Control for Grid Ancillary Services, Veronica Adetola, Fu Lin, Shui Yuan, and Haydeen Reeve
Practice-Oriented System Identification Strategies for MPC of Building Thermal and HVAC Dynamics, Anas Alanqar, Matthew J Ellis, Juan E Tapiero Bernal, and Michael J Wenzel
A Python-Based Toolbox for Model Predictive Control Applied to Buildings, Javier Arroyo, Bram Van Der Heijde, Alfred Spiessens, and Lieve Helsen
Design of Experiments for Learning Personalized Visual Preferences of Occupants In Private Offices, Nimish Awalgaonkar Awalgaonkar, Jie Xiong, Ilias Bilionis, Athanasios Tzempelikos, and Panagiota Karava
Air Source Heat Pump Systems: Control Strategy Based on the Knowledge of the Time Evolution of the Electricity Price in the Italian Context, Elena Bee, Alessandro Prada, and Paolo Baggio
Rule Based Control Strategies of Thermal Storage in Residential Heating Systems with Air-Source Heat Pump and Photovoltaic Panels, Elena Bee, Alessandro Prada, and Paolo Baggio