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Energy Technologies Area (ETA) researchers are continually building on the strong scientific foundation we have developed over the past 50 years. We address the world’s most pressing climate challenges by bringing to market energy-efficient innovations across the buildings, transportation, and industrial sectors. ETA is at the forefront of developing better batteries for electric vehicles; improving the country's aging electrical grid and innovating distributed energy and storage solutions; developing grid-interactive, efficient buildings; and providing the most comprehensive market and data analysis worldwide for renewable technologies like wind and solar.
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The Energy Technologies Area (ETA) Strategic Plan is the guiding force for our research and development for the next ten years. It clearly charts a path toward clean-energy solutions and focuses on five detailed Strategic Initiatives. The Plan provides an in-depth look at how ETA is accelerating research to provide affordable, clean energy to all while accomplishing deep, economy-wide decarbonization, looking to avoid a rise in global average temperature while simultaneously developing solutions to increase humanity's resilience to extreme weather volatility.
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The Energy Technologies Area (ETA) is unique in translating fundamental scientific discoveries into scalable technology adoption. Our approach combines an understanding of the marketplace and the role of state and federal regulation and policies. ETA's research drives real-world, practical results that affect and improve the everyday lives of Americans and those across the globe. Saving energy and battling the Climate Crisis are key to the foundation of our research, which is driven by technoeconomic analysis and in-lab experimentation and discovery.

Publications

Publications by Research Area

Buildings

Demand Response

Electricity Markets & Policy

Energy Efficiency

Energy Storage

Industrial Energy Analysis

Renewable Energy

Sustainable Energy & Environmental Systems

Transportation

Publications by Division

Building Technology (BTUS)

Energy Analysis (EAEI)

Energy Storage (ESDR)

1990

Tuluca, Adrian, Max H. Sherman, and Moncef Krarti."Reduction of the Effective Leakage Areas of Single Section HUD-Code Manufactured Homes Due to Air Infiltration Barriers."ASHRAE Transactions 96.1 (1990).

Harrje, David T., Russell N. Dietz, Max H. Sherman, David L. Bohac, Ted W. D'Ottavio, Darryl J. Dickerhoff, and Max H. Sherman."Tracer Gas Measurement Systems Compared in a Multifamily Building."Air Change Rate and Air Tightness in Buildings ASTM STP 1067 (1990) 5-20. DOI

Sherman, Max H.."Tracer Gas Techniques for Measuring Ventilation in a Single Zone."Building and Environment 25.4 (1990) 365-374.

Sherman, Max H.."Air Change Rate and Air Tightness in Buildings."Performance of Building Constructions and its Subcommittee E06.41 on Infiltration Performances, April 16-17, 1989 STP 1067 (1990) 302. DOI

1989

Sherman, Max H.."Air Infiltration Measurement Techniques."10th Air Infiltration and Ventilation Centre Conference (1989).

Sherman, Max H., Helmut E. Feustel, and Darryl J. Dickerhoff."Description of a System for Measuring Interzonal Air Flows Using Multiple Tracer Gasses." (1989).

Sherman, Max H.."Analysis of Errors Associated with Passive Ventilation Measurement Techniques."Building and Environment 24.2 (1989) 131-139.

Sherman, Max H.."On Estimation of Multizone Ventilation Rates from Tracer Gas Measurements."Building and Environment 24.4 (1989) 355-362.

Sherman, Max H., and Darryl J. Dickerhoff."A Multigas Tracer System for Multizone Air Flow Measurements."Proceedings ASHRAE/DOE/BTECC Conference, Thermal Performance of the Exterior Envelopes of Buildings Conference IV (1989) 417-432.

Feustel, Helmut E., and Max H. Sherman."A Simplified Model for Predicting Air Flow in Multizone Structures."Energy and Buildings 13.3 (1989) 217-239.

Sherman, Max H.."Uncertainty in Air Flow Calculations Using Tracer Gas Measurements."Building and Environment 24.4 (1989) 347-354.

1988

Sherman, Max H.."Exegesis of Proposed ASHRAE Standard 119: Air Leakage Performance for Detached Single-Family Residential Buildings."Proceedings. BTECC/DOE Symposium on Guidelines for Air Infiltration, Ventilation, and Moisture Transfer (D. Eakin Ed.) (1988).

Sherman, Max H., and Mark P. Modera."Signal Attenuation Due to Cavity Leakage."Journal of Acoustical Society of America 84.6 (1988).

Sherman, Max H.."On Estimation of Multizone Ventilation Rates from Tracer-Gas Measurements." (1988).

1987

Modera, Mark P., Max H. Sherman, and P.-F. Vacheron."Pulse Pressurization: A Technique for Measuring Building Air Leakage." (1987).

Modera, Mark P., Max H. Sherman, and S de Vinuesa."In-Situ Measurements of Wall Thermal Performance: Data Interpretation and Apparatus Design Recommendations."Thermal Insulation, Materials and Systems, (Powell/Mathews Eds.) STP:922 (1987) 91-106.

1986

Sherman, Max H., Richard F. Szydlowski, Peter Cleary, Mark P. Modera, and Mark D. Levine."Development and Implementation of Survey Techniques for Assessing In-Situ Appliance Efficiencies." (1986).

Sherman, Max H.."Estimation of Infiltration from Leakage and Climate Indicators."Energy and Buildings 10 (1986) 81-86.

Sherman, Max H.."Infiltration Degree-Days: A Statistic for Infiltration-Related Climate."ASHRAE Transactions 92.2A (1986) 161-181.

Sherman, Max H., and Mark P. Modera."Low Frequency Measurement of the Leakage of Enclosures."Rev. Scientific Instruments 57.7 (1986) 1427.

Sherman, Max H., and David J. Wilson."Relating Actual and Effective Ventilation in Determining In-door Air Quality."Building and Environment 21.3/4 (1986) 135-144.

Sherman, Max H., David J. Wilson, and Darwin Kiel."Variability in Residential Air Leakage."Measured Air Leakage Performance of Buildings, (Trechsel/Lagus Ed.) STP:904 (1986) 348-364.

Sherman, Max H.."Description of ASHRAE's Proposed Air Tightness Standard."5th Air Infiltration Centre Conference: The Implementation and Effectiveness of Air Infiltration Standards in Buildings, October 1-5, 1984 (1986).

Sherman, Max H., and Mark P. Modera."Infiltration Using the LBL Infiltration Model."Measured Air Leakage Performance of Buildings, (Trechsel/Lagus Ed.) STP:904 (1986) 325 - 347.

1985

Sherman, Max H., and J. Bruce Dickinson."The Prediction of Air Infiltration."Proceedings CLIMA 2000 Conference (1985).