Research

Smart and Energy Efficient Ventilation

Development of data-driven optimized ventilation control strategies in homes and commercial buildings; low-cost air quality sensors for integration into smart building control systems; investigations into use of ventilation for load shifting in commercial buildings; smart laboratory ventilation

Current Projects:

  • 1835-RP: Characterizing the Performance of Induced Flow Stacks, funded by ASHRAE, PI
  • Validating Energy Conservation of Advanced Livestock Ventilation Systems with Real-Time Energy Data, funded by US Department of Agriculture, co-PI with Chris Zoller (PI), Eric Romich and Morgan Hayes
  • Occupant response to short-term reduction of ventilation, funded by Ohio State Sustainability Institute, PI with Rajiv Ramnath and Nicole Sintov
  • Ohio State Energy Partners: Attacking one of the OSU campus’s biggest energy sinks: laboratory exhaust fans, PI

Completed Projects:

  • ASHRAE 1756-RP Evaluation of particle sensors for indoor air quality monitoring and smart building systems, funded by ASHRAE, co-PI with Andy May, Ohio State.
  • ASHRAE 1823-RP Improved Exhaust-to-Intake Dilution (Concentration) Calculations, funded by ASHRAE, PI.

 

Campus-scale energy modeling and load shaping 

Measuring, modeling and predicting energy consumption and power demand in campus buildings; Low-order gray box modeling with smart meter data;  Use of drones for rapid energy model generation;  Bottom-up campus and community-scale modeling; community-scale software development and validation

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Completed Projects:

  • UrbanOpt community energy systems  development and validation with NREL (OSU PI).
  • Ohio State Energy Partners: Campus energy living lab digital twin pilot, PI

Hyper-efficient HVAC System Development

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