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
Nicholas Houchois, Eric Teitelbaum, and Forrest Meggers have founded a company to bring the SMART sensor to market:
www.hearthlabs.com
The company 2nd prize at the regional DOE Cleantech pitch competition for $15,000, and won the BTO prize of $35,000 at the national competition.
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.
http://www.simaud.org/2018/program.php
Development of moisture absorber based on hydrophilic nonporous membrane mass exchanger and alkoxylated siloxane liquid desiccant. (2018) Energy and Buildings, 160, 34-43. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2017.10.093
Jovan Pantelic, Eric Teitelbaum, Michael Bozlar, Soram Kim, Forrest Meggers
Our group will attend the Celebrate Princeton Invention meeting this year and present our latest research on advanced sensors to measure Radiant Temperature for improved human comfort.
We are excited to attend the 2017 e-ffiliates meeting in the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment.
Prof. Meggers will be one of the speakers:
https://e-ffiliates-acee.princeton.edu/
CHAOS Lab will present our most recent research during the poster session.
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.
The CHAOS team presented 4 papers at the International Building Simulation conference held in San Francisco.
http://www.buildingsimulation2017.org/
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.
10:00 am: Hongshan Guo & Erica Edwards, NSF-SRN UWIN – Urban water, humidity, surfaces and radiant comfort
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
12:30 pm: Concluding remarks by Forrest Meggers
12.45 pm Adjourn – Lunch
