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An Ice Storage Tank Modelica Model: Implementation and Validation

September 27, 2021
Author(s)
Guowen Li, Yangyang Fu, Amanda Pertzborn, Jin Wen, Zheng O'Neill
Energy storage systems have been gaining attention as a means of load management in grid-interactive efficient buildings. This study investigated the physics of the ice storage tank (IST) and implemented an IST model in Modelica. The developed IST Modelica

Load Forecasting Tool for NIST Transactive Energy Market

September 27, 2021
Author(s)
Farhad Omar, David Holmberg
Customers and transactive energy (TE) market managers may rely on load forecasting algorithms to purchase or sell power in a forward market environment, using day-ahead and real-time pricing structures. Accurate load forecasting becomes necessary when a

Baseline Control Systems in the Intelligent Building Agents Laboratory

September 22, 2021
Author(s)
Amanda Pertzborn, Daniel Veronica
The goal of the Embedded Intelligence in Buildings program at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is to develop and deploy advances in measurement science that will improve building operations to achieve lower operating costs

Deep reinforcement learning assisted energy harvesting wireless networks

May 24, 2021
Author(s)
Junliang Ye, Hamid Gharavi
Heterogeneous ultra-dense networking (HUDN) with energy harvesting technology is a promising approach to deal with the ever-growing traffic that can severely impact the power consumption of small-cell networks. Unfortunately, the amount of harvested energy

Residential net-zero energy buildings: Review and perspective

May 1, 2021
Author(s)
Wei Wu, Harrison Skye
Advancements in residential net-zero energy buildings (NZEBs) could significantly reduce energy use and greenhouse gas emissions. NZEB design considerations broadly categorize into energy infrastructure connections, renewable energy sources, and energy

Laboratory Tests of a Prototype Carbon Dioxide Ground-Source Air Conditioner

April 12, 2021
Author(s)
Harrison M. Skye, Wei Wu
Environmental concerns are driving regulations to reduce the use of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) with high global warming potential (GWP) as refrigerants in heat pumps. CO2 is an attractive alternative refrigerant because is it 'environmentally friendly' in
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