Proceedings from 2024
Benchmarking Classification Algorithms for Data-Driven Fault Detection and Diagnostics for Building HVAC Systems, Mohammad Abdollah Fadel Abdollah, Rossano Scoccia, and Marcello Aprile
Grid-interactive Efficient Buildings Using Thermal Energy Storage For Electric Heat Pumps, Prabhav Agrawala and Anurag Goyal
At-Home Vertical Farm and Automatic Irrigation System Implementation, Emma G. Balevic, Aaron H.P. Farha, Andreas J. Hoess, and Eckhard A. Groll
Modelling And Simulation Of A Carnot Battery Coupled To Seasonal Underground Stratified Thermal Energy Storage For Heating, Cooling And Electricity Generation., Aitor Cendoya, Frederic Ransy, Vincent Lemort, Andres Hernandez, Pierre Dewallef, Pierre-Henri Gresse, and Jacques Windeshausen
Physics-based Dynamic Bayesian Network For Fault Detection And Diagnostics In Building HVAC Systems, Dongyu Chen, Yiyuan Qiao, and Qun Zhou Sun
Development of Self-correction Algorithms for Thermostats Using OpenAPI Capabilities, Yimin Chen, Eliot Crowe, and Jessica Granderson
Model Predictive Control of a Hybrid Rooftop Unit System Integrated with Phase Change Material for Load Shifting, Rohit Chintala, Huang Ransisi, and Xin Jin
Human Olfactory Assessment of Scented Volatile Chemical Product Emissions, Jordan Cross, Brian Magnuson, Zachary Limaye, Rashmika Manipati, Chunxu Huang, Jianghui Liu, Brandon Boor, and Nusrat Jung
Model-based Control Optimization of Air-conditioning for Proactive Building Demand Response, Mingkun Dai, Hangxin Li, and Shengwei Wang
Innovative Condenser - Storage Tank - Concept For Residential Heat Pumps, Kevin Diewald, Lena Schnabel, Hannes Fugmann, and Christiane Thomas
A Comparison Between Common And Reinforcement Learning-Based Supply Air Temperature Reset Strategies With Varying Occupant Temperature Preferences, Hussein Elehwany, Burak Gunay, Mohamed Ouf, Nunzio Cotrufo, Jean-Simon Venne, and Junfeng Wen
An Analytical Method to Estimate the LCOE/S of Air Souce Heat Pumps Integrated with Thermal Storage, Conrado Ermel, Marcus V.A. Bianchi, and Paulo S. Schneider
The Benefits of Buried Ducts - Beyond What We Know Today., Rebecca Evans, Simon Pallin, and Keith Saechao
Results of the Implementation of Model Predictive Control in a Large Administrative Building for Energy Efficiency and Comfort Optimization, Svenne Freund, Gerhard Schmitz, and Arne Speerforck
A Hybrid Rf-Symbolic Regression Approach for Accurate Solar Irradiance Prediction in Mountain Regions, Aleksandr Gevorgian, Giovanni Pernigotto, and Andrea Gasparella
Advanced Predictive Rule-based Control for HVAC Cost Reduction Under Dynamic Electricity Pricing in Residential Buildings, Avik Ghosh, Xing Lu, and Veronica Adetola
Exploring the Power Demand and Efficiency Performance Limits of Heat Pumps with Thermal Storage, Kyle Gluesenkamp, Damiola Akamo, Zhenning Li, Yiyuan Qiao, Jason Hirschey, Xiaobing Liu, and Bo Shen
Modeling Thermostat Adjustment Behavior in Residential Communities During Eco-feedback Energy Interventions, Jaehyun Go, Huijeong Kim, Ilias Bilionis, and Panagiota Karava
Impacts of Relaxing Humidity Constraints on Chilled Water Demand in a Commercial Building, Rebecca Grekin, Jacques de Chalendar, and Sally Benson
On the design of Latent Thermal Energy Storage Solutions for Buildings: from Materials to Applications, Dario Guarda, Giacomo Favero, Gianluca Slaviero, Giulia Righetti, Claudio Zilio, Luca Doretti, and Simone Mancin
Design and Experimental Performance of Practical MPC for Multi-zone VRF system for Small and Medium Commercial Buildings, Sang woo Ham, Donghun Kim, and Lazlo Paul
Comparative Energy Performance Evaluation of Data Centers using Economizer at Various Regions, Se Hyeon Ham, Soonbum Kwon, and Yongchan Kim
Field Evaluations in the Time of COVID-19: Overcoming Unexpected Challenges when Testing Occupied Buildings, Robert Hendron and Rebecca Simonson
Development of a New Laboratory Test Methodology for Rapid Ageing of HVAC Filters, Chunxu Huang, Ta-Kuan Chuang, Iane Gomes, Laura Ajala, Elliot Cram, Nusrat Jung, and Brandon Boor
A Data-driven AFDD Approach Using Acoustic Emission In Building HVAC Systems, Jiajing Huang, Zhiyao Yang, Guowen Li, Teresa Wu, Zheng O'Neill, Jin Wen, and K. Selcuk Candan
Performance Evaluation of Ground-source Integrated Heat Pump for Residential Net-zero Energy Buildings, Dong Soo Jang and Harrison M. Skye
Feasibility of Gravity Batteries in Residential Homes: A Case Study, Caden L. Jarausch, Thomas B. Avery, Enrico Setiawan, Andreas J. Hoess, Haotian Liu, and Eckhard A. Groll
What Have We Learned From Field Demonstrations of Advanced Commercial HVAC Control?, Arash J. Khabbazi, Elias N. Pergantis, Levi D. Reyes Premer, Alex H. Lee, Jie Ma, Haotian Liu, Gregor P Henze, and Kevin J. Kircher
Data-Driven Probabilistic Causal Inference for Occupant Behavior Modeling, Jinyoung Ko and Seungjae Lee
A Dynamic Modeling Framework for High-Performance Heat Pumps and Controls Evaluations, Jiazhen Ling, Jermy Thomas, Kyle Benne, and David Blum
Indoor Nanoparticle Emissions and Exposures during Heat-Based Hair Styling Activities, Jianghui Liu, Jinglin Jiang, Satya Patra, Xiaosu Ding, Chunxu Huang, Jordan Cross, Brandon Boor, and Nusrat Jung
Design And Optimization Of The Conventional Heat Pump With Thermal Energy Storage For Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings, Mingzhe Liu, Zhiyao Yang, and Zheng O'Neill
Real-Time Energy and IEQ Monitoring of a Compact Living Space, Hongbo Lu, Emmanuel Aghimien, Xiaosu Ding, Ariane Rednour, Jordan Cross, and Nusrat Jung
Enabling Human-Centered Daylighting Operation Using Non-Intrusive Luminance Monitoring And Deep Learning, Sichen Lu, Dongjun Mah, and Athanasios Tzempelikos
Development of a Chamber Platform for Evaluating Indoor Dust Contact Transfer and Resuspension in Infant Near-Floor Microenvironments, Brian Magnuson, Satya Patra, Nusrat Jung, and Brandon Boor
Deep Learning-Based Quantification of Heat Gains and Impact on Building Energy Demand, Dongjun Mah, Hubo Cai, Kevin J. Kircher, and Athanasios Tzempelikos
Cost Reduction of Heat Pump Water Heating in Cold Climates for Low to Moderate Income Families, Mini Malhotra, Easwaran Krishnan, Joseph Rendall, and Finn Casey
Detailed Analysis of Energy Demand and COVID-19 Impacts on Hotel Buildings, Hendrik Margraf, Fatih Meral, Federico Lonardi, and Andrea Luke
Effect of Liquid Fraction Sensing Accuracy on the Performance of a Smart Energy Management System for Residential Heat-Pump Heating with Latent Thermal Energy Storage, Carolina Mira-Hernandez and Simone Mancin
Beyond Average: Evaluating Indoor Average Temperature in Grey Box Modeling, Ozan Baris Mulayim and Mario Bergés
Performance Assessment of a Dual-Purpose HP-TES for a Typical Year Comparing Different Climate Zones, Alhussain Othman, Vikrant Aute, and James Tancabel
Recharge Demand Mitigation for Latent Heat Thermal Energy Storage at Off-Peak Hours, Alhussain Othman, Vikrant Aute, and James Tancabel
Indoor Atmospheric Nanocluster Aerosol Dynamics in Residential Buildings, Satya Patra, Gerhard Steiner, Nusrat Jung, and Brandon Boor
Protecting Residential Electrical Infrastructure Through Advanced Control: The First Field Results, Elias Nikolaos Pergantis, Levi D. Reyes, Alex H. Lee, Haotian Liu, Eckahrd A. Groll, Davide Ziviani, and Kevin J. Kircher
Open-source tool-box for identifying envelope dynamics of detached residential buildings, Elias N. Pergantis, Jaewon Park, Priyadarshan Priyadarshan, Trevor J. Bird, Davide Ziviani, and Kevin J. Kircher
Field Test and Evaluation of Model Predictive Control in a Grid-Interactive Thermal Energy Storage Integrated Heat Pump System, Yiyuan Qiao, Xiaobing Liu*, Liang Shi, Lingshi Wang, Jin Dong, Borui Cui, and Ming Qu
Pressure Sensor for State of Charge Measurements in Latent Thermal Energy Storage (P-SOC), Joseph Rendall, Achutha Tamraparnia, Zhenglai Shen, Diana Hun, and Som Shrestha
Design And Validation Of A Heat Pump Digital Twin And Its Control Strategy Towards The Development Of Flexibility Focused Controllers, Nicolas Renté, Laure Meljac, Odile Cauret, Kévin Attonaty, Cong Toan Tran, and Pascal Stabat
Field Demonstration of Predictive Heat Pump Water Heater Control, Levi D. Reyes Premer, Leo Semmelmann, Elias N. Pergantis, Eckhard A. Groll, Davide Ziviani, and Kevin J. Kircher
Multi-system Model Predictive Control For Multi-Zone Building Automation And Control, Pradeep Shakya, Krishnamoorthy Baskaran, Shiva Sreenivasan, Yagneshwar Dharmalingam, Swapnil Dubey, Shiyu Yang, and Wan Man Pun
Development and Comparative Analysis of a Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) DC Lighting System for Residential Buildings, Lokesh Sriram, Aaron Farha, Andreas Hoess, Davide Ziviani, Eckhard Groll, Elias Pergantis, and Kevin Kircher
Experimental Investigation and Performance Characterization of PCM Integrated Finned Tube Heat Exchanger for Building Heating and Cooling Applications, Achutha Tamraparni, Joseph Rendall, Zhenglai Shen, Diana Hun, and Som Shrestha
Thermal Modeling Of Industrial Environments Using Transient 0D And 1D Models, Jordi Vera, Octavi Pavon, Assensi Oliva, Deniz Kizildag, Oriol Sanmartí, and Domingo Alcalá
Demand Response Control for the Inverter Air Conditioners Based on Hierarchical Nonlinear Model Predictive Control for Plug-And-Play, Cuiling Wang and Baolong Wang
Tailoring the Heat Pump System Controller to the Building: Assessment of Adapted Heating Curves using Data-Driven Methods, Florian Will, Jonas Klingebiel, Christian Vering, and Dirk Müller
Electric Battery Energy Storage and Thermal Energy Storage, Jason Woods and Eric Kozubal
Investigating Occupant Thermostat-adjustment Behavioral Patterns in Different Heat Pump Operation Modes: A Field Experiment, Feng Wu, Hemanth Devarapalli, Hyeongseok Lee, Huijeong Kim, Jaehyun Go, Panagiota Karava, James E. Braun, W. Travis Horton, Kevin J. Kircher, and Davide Ziviani
Design and Commissioning of a Facility for Studying Next-Generation High Performance Building Technologies and their Interactions with Occupants, Feng Wu, Sourabh D. Yadav, Sarah A. Alkandari, Jie Ma, Parveen Dhillon, Haotian Liu, James E. Braun, Panagiota Karava, Davide Ziviani, and W. Travis Horton
Optimizing Controls of IoT-based Manufacturing Buildings through Deep Reinforcement Learning, Dikai Xu, Jaewoo Shin, Lan Zhao, and Ming Qu
Carbon Responsive Control of Building Thermal Loads, Mingshi Yao, Zhimin Jiang, and Jie Cai
Field Performance of Commercial Building Load Flexibility Using Model Predictive Control, Ettore Zanetti, David Blum, Marco Pritoni, and Mary Ann Piette
How to Develop Future Weather Data for Building Energy Modeling, Zhaoyun Zeng, Ji-Hyun (Jeannie) Kim, and Ralph T. Muehleisen
Adaptive Model Control of Residential Solar-Air Source Hybrid Heat Pumps Water Heating System, Zihao Zhao and Baolong Wang
Assessing Low-GWP Refrigerants in Ground Source Heat Pump Systems: Long-Term Thermal Performance under Varied Geological Conditions and Cold Climate, Zilong Zhao and Guoquan Lv
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