CHAOS Lab Ph.D. candidate Eric Teitelbaum has temporarily relocated to the Singapore-ETH Centre to manage the engineering, design and research behind a sub-dewpoint outdoor radiant cooling pavilion. The system uses thermal windows to create cold surfaces that your body sees, but that are not directly in contact with the warm, humid tropical Singaporean air. It’s the first study of its kind, assessing how radiantly cooled occupants feel with an entirely radiantly cooled system. Stay tuned for updates!
Teitelbaum hiding behind a thermally transparent material.ColdTube pavilion rendering.
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.
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.
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.
Research team led by Prof Forrest Meggers, faculty jointly appointed in the School of Architecture and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment.
