Work collaborating with Elie Bou-Zeid and Howard Stone led by CHAOS researcher Eric Teitelbaum highlighted by Princeton Engineering: http://www.princeton.edu/engineering/building/water
More on the research at the ECCENTRIC page: http://chaos.princeton.edu/ongoing-projects/eccentric-buildings/
We signed an agreement this week to make collaboration official with the ETH Zurich on the “Beyond Efficiency 3-for-2” project in Singapore. Meggers has been involved in the project since its onset, and has now initiated collaboration from his role at Princeton. Work will be carried out evaluating and developing new air conditioning techniques. More info below
http://beyondefficiency.blogspot.com/
http://www.fcl.ethz.ch/project/3for2-beyond-efficiency/
Apply here: https://erams.com/UWIN/urp/
Summer 2016 will be the first year that the Urban Water Innovation Network offers an Undergraduate Research Program (URP). Ten students will be given the opportunity to perform cutting edge, transdisciplinary research of immediate relevance to people in urban areas. Where possible, pairs of students, one in the social sciences and one in the natural sciences / engineering will be placed with a team of mentors in each of the six study regions of the Network: Front Range of Colorado, Mid-Atlantic, Tucson-Phoenix Sun corridor, South Florida, California, Pacific Northwest Cascadia.
The 2016 UWIN URP program will engage students in three strands of activities:
Working closely with mentor scientists, students will delineate a research question and hypotheses, develop and implement a project, analyze data, give an oral presentation in a formal symposium, and write a research paper.
Skill building workshops and seminars will support student learning. Students will participate in virtual scientific writing workshop, transdisciplinary science activities, and online sessions in ethics in natural sciences and engineering, strategies for effective presentations, and future options in study and work.
Students will explore how to promote sustainable management of urban water systems by working with a team of disciplinary experts. Students will be encouraged to look beyond their own discipline as well. They will participate in workshops and seminars led by experts from different fields. A Forum on Opportunities in Urban Water Sustainability Research and Applications will showcase examples of natural science, engineering, and social science in action.
Students in the 2016 program will receive a stipend of $4,000 plus on-campus or nearby housing, and a food allowance of $400 for the 8 week program. Funds are available for students to get to the kickoff meeting at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Co, and from there to their research site. A small pool of funds is available to help defray the costs of travel back home for those students in need of assistance.
Projects with Meggers CHAOS team:
Urban Energy Water Nexus. Forrest Meggers, Princeton University. One student. The built environment generates the vast majority of both energy and water demand, and the rise in urban populations has concentrated those demands in cities. These demands are intertwined in many complex ways, including the latent energy inherent to water phase change (evaporation and condensation) This is a ripe area of investigation where better characterizations and understanding can make great reductions in the environmental impact at this critical urban energy water nexus. One of the largest energy and water demands is for heating and cooling systems, and these systems are directly impacted by changes in climate. There are many overlooked opportunities to address how local energy and water conditions in urban microclimates both influence and are influenced by climate change. Building and interstitial urban spaces cause in major shifts in temperature and surface and air moisture contents. The UWIN URP student will use novel thermal imaging, distributed sensing, and energy modeling to characterize these variations for the cooling case during the summer looking at the urban fabric of the local campus at Princeton, and also in New York City and Philadelphia. The student will work with Architecture design grad students on methods to render the data in three-dimensional models, as well as developing new techniques to stitch together wide-angle views and photo-spheres of thermal images, a technology currently limited to rather narrow field-of-view lenses. Grad students in engineering and architectural technology will also assist in energy analysis and simulation to estimate and validate the impacts of the temperature and image data recorded on overall energy and water demand for energy systems. The result will be a better characterization of cooling demand and its impact on energy consumption, condensate water production, and latent energy storage and surface exchanges.
Dec 2nd issue of Princeton Alumni Weekly features an article on research at the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment including work and image of Meggers with the Thermoheliodome
https://paw.princeton.edu/issues/2015/12/02/pages/6045/index.xml
Dr. William W. Braham, Professor at UPenn, will give a lecture in the brand new Andlinger Center for Energy and Environment building discussing topics around thermodynamics and architecture. See his book Architecture and Systems Ecology. Details here:
Highlight Seminar: William Braham, University of Pennsylvania
Forrest will host Bill and a group of his students from the Master of Environmental Building Design at UPenn at the new building in a CHAOS lab workshop and discussion of the thermodynamics of the Thermoheliodome and Cool Oculus.
The Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment (acee.princeton.edu) made a nice media release on the Cool Oculus and Thermoheliodome as part of the Ultrastructures event
http://acee.princeton.edu/news/keeping-cool-exhibit-and-conference-explore-innovative-ways-to-make-buildings-comfortable/
The ULTRASTRUCTURES exhibition has started with the completion of the structure of the Cool Oculus.
Conference will take place Saturday, Sept 19th.
http://soa.princeton.edu/#1103
Meggers and Aviv pictured inside the Cool Oculus
Frank Wojciechowski, photographer, for The Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Princeton University.
Cooling and Heating for Architectural Optimization Team In Conference – Summer 2015
Some clips were taken and posted to:
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/backwards-forwards-princeton-university
http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S43/92/20A66/index.xml?section=people
Led by Colorado State, the new research network includes Meggers of Princeton along with colleagues Elie Bou-Zeid and James Smith, faculty in Civil and Environmental Engineering.
The project will engage the multifaceted challenges facing water in the urban context ranging from advanced predictive simulation of climate to urban design and the water energy nexus.
Michelle Soram Kim, a member of the Laboratory Learning program who will be a senior in high school next year, submitted an abstract on her research with Dr. Jovan Pantelic and Prof. Forrest Meggers on high performance air conditioning systems to a call for projects to be presented at the NJ Tech Council.
She was among 10 selected for presentation, and she presented a summary of the novel experimental work she is doing with Dr. Jovan Pantelic on the ability of a new liquid desiccant material to achieve dehumidification in conjunction with a novel membrane exchange setup.
