Indoor Environmental Quality for Energy and Productivity
Advances in building sensors, HVAC and lighting allow us to create highlyefficient, modern spaces for federal employees. Do these technologies also improve indoor air quality and productivity? Learn how 3 research teams are using a distributed sensor network to create an accurate picture of building performance and its effect on employees while reducing cost.
Brian Gilligan, U.S. General Services Administration
CHAOS is participating at ICUC 10 at CUNY in New York City! Hongshan and Forrest presented preliminary results on radiant heat transfer outdoors to better characterize radiant heat transfer.
Get data from Forrest’s thermal comfort badge designed for the World Economic Forum YGL events hosted at the Princeton Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment.
Meggers presented at Indoor Air in Philly on how shifting toward a radiant temperature driven thermal comfort model, air temperature setbacks can allow for beneficial shifts in the humidity.
http://www.indoorair2018.org/
Looking at conditions in Philly using Expanded Psychrometric chart from Eric Teitelbaum
PhD students Dorit Aviv and Hongshan Guo both presented papers at the SimAUD conference at TU Delft. Meggers was one of the scientific chairs and participated in a panel discussing radiant thermal comfort.
Reuters published a great article on the challenges of urban heat. Prof Meggers was quoted on the challenges specific to our work with air conditioning systems in the urban environment.
CHAOS Lab symposium on the Energy Water Nexus and the role of carbon and natural systems for the challenges in our urban environment and infrastructures
9:00 am: Welcome message and Introduction to Energy+Water+Urban by Dr. Forrest Meggers
9:30 am: Noah Stern, Water + Carbon + Environment. Followed by Q/A
The Water and Carbon cycles are arguably the most important cycles for humankind to understand. The water cycle is the largest cycle on the planet, and the carbon cycle is at the heart of the threat of climate change. Current models of sediment carbon dynamics focus on preservation of organic carbon through formation of carbon-mineral aggregates. However, the preservation of carbon in these soil aggregates depends on their stability. My research focuses on the importance of particulate organic carbon in the development of microbial hot-spots where highly elevated release rates of CO2 and CH4 occur. Connecting the contribution of particulate organic carbon to the freshwater carbon cycle has large implications for natural and engineered environments.
11:00 am: Eric Teitelbaum & Michael Bozlar,
I.) Applications of Liquid Desiccant in Building Dehumidification. II.) Evaporative Cooling using Hydrophilic Substrates
12:00 pm: James Coleman & Nicholas Houchois, Distributed and Intelligent Sensors
Research team led by Prof Forrest Meggers, faculty jointly appointed in the School of Architecture and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment.
