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.
The Siebel Energy Institute awarded Forrest $25,000 for a project collaborating with the Polytechnic University of Torino on new concepts for building heating and cooling control that utilize constructal theory accounting for energy and and entropy
Prof Meggers provided some informal insights and direction to David Benjamin in this project that was presented at the IDEAS CITY event at the New Museum in New York City
The Embodied Energy Pilot Project—led by Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) and Oldcastle BuildingEnvelope®, and operating out of the GSAPP Incubator at NEW INC—aims to uncover key questions, issues, and opportunities for architectural design in the context of embodied energy.
This exhibition for IDEASCITY will feature two large drawings for the glass facade of the New Museum: a zoomed-out embodied energy map of New York City buildings, and a zoomed-in embodied energy view of the intersection of the Bowery and Houston Street.
The NY Times ran an interesting article on thermal imaging, a tool we use in our research to study how heat moves in and out of surfaces. It gives a nice overview of the technology, as well as some interesting application and business models (like essess.com)
The group fo Shanhui Fan published a paper in Nature, “Passive radiative cooling below ambient air temperature under direct sunlight.” I demonstrates how a nanostructured surface and shift the wavelength of radiant emission into a band where the atmosphere is transparent, greatly increasing the thermal gradient and cooling potential by radiating to the sky. They were able to cool the surface to 4.9 degrees C below the ambient air temperature in sunlit conditions.
Research team led by Prof Forrest Meggers, faculty jointly appointed in the School of Architecture and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment.
