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Hyojin Kim, Khiem Nguyen, Anne McGuinness, Toan V. Dai
Despite broad recognition that air distribution plays an important role in comfort for residential buildings, previous efforts to evaluate and characterize the performance of residential air distribution systems have largely focused on their impact on the
Maria Alonso, William Stuart Dols, Hans M. Mathisen
Buildings account for approximately 40 % of energy use in the European Union. In light of the Energy performance of buildings directive (EPBD), efforts are underway to reduce this energy use by targeting zero or nearly zero emissions/energy buildings (nZEB
CO2 is an attractive refrigerant option for ground-source heat pumps (GSHPs) because is it environmentally friendly with low global warming potential (GWP = 1) and no ozone depletion potential (ODP). The cycle efficiency is also important for a
Advait Madhavan, Georgios Tzimpragos, Mark D. Stiles, Timothy Sherwood
Our community has been exploring Time-of-arrival based codes as a candidate for very low energy information processing. A ``space-time'' algebra has been recently proposed that captures the essential features of such a paradigm. In order to gain some
For homes to become active participants in a smart grid, intelligent control algorithms are needed to facilitate autonomous interactions that take homeowner preferences into consideration. Many control algorithms for demand response have been proposed in
The Intelligent Building Agents Laboratory (IBAL) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will be used to develop and evaluate advanced control systems for commercial building heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC)
Natascha S. Milesi-Ferretti, Michael A. Galler, Justin A. Sorra, Steven T. Bushby
ASHRAE Guideline 36 High Performance Sequences of Operation for HVAC Systems was developed to provide a reference set of high-performance control sequences for air-side heating, ventilating and air-conditioning (HVAC) equipment, including multiple-zone
Arno D. Laesecke, Clemens Junker, Damian S. Lauria
The viscosities of three pentaerythritol tetraalkanoate ester base oils and one fully formulated lubricant were measured with an oscillating piston viscometer in the combined temperature range from 275 K to 450 K with pressures to 137 MPa. The alkanoates
The transactive energy (TE) abstract component model (Model) was the product of a tiger team effort engaged by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Pacific Northwest National Lab (PNNL), Vanderbilt University, and Carnegie Mellon
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has constructed the Intelligent Building Agents Laboratory (IBAL) to demonstrate the potential for distributed, intelligent software agents to optimize the control of heating, ventilation, and air
Byung N. Kim, Alia Weaver, Marina Chumakov, Ileana M. Pazos, Dianne L. Poster, Karen Gaskell, Do H. Han, Gunther Scherer, Michael A. Yandrasits, Byung C. Lee, Mohamad Al-Sheikhly
During the pulsed-electron beam direct grafting of neat styrene onto poly(tetrafluoroethylene-co-hexafluoropropylene) (FEP) substrate, the radiolytically-produced styryl and carbon-centered FEP radicals undergo various desired and undesired competing
We demonstrate optical and electrical property enhancement of solar cells using a variety of dielectric nano-resonator array coatings. First, we study close-packed silicon dioxide (SiO2) nano-resonator arrays on top of silicon (Si) and gallium arsenide