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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.

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2010

Trcka, Marija, Jan Hensen, and Michael Wetter."Co-simulation for performance prediction of integrated building and HVAC systems - An analysis of solution characteristics using a two-body system."Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory 18.7 (2010) 957-970. DOI

Ma, Yudong, Francesco Borrelli, Brandon Hencey, Brian E. Coffey, Sorin Bengea, and Philip Haves."Model Predictive Control of Thermal Energy Storage in Building Cooling Systems."American Control Conference (2010).

Hong, Tianzhen, and Stephen E. Selkowitz."Assessment of Energy Impact of Window Technologies for Commercial Buildings."2010 ACEEE Summer Study (2010).

Keane, Marcus, Andrea Costa, James O'Donnell, Karsten Menzel, and Alan Dirk."BuildWise Final Report." (2010).

Kämpf, Jérôme Henri, Michael Wetter, and Darren Robinson."A comparison of global optimization algorithms with standard benchmark functions and real-world applications using EnergyPlus."Journal of Building Performance Simulation 3.2 (2010) 103-120. DOI

Coffey, Brian E., Philip Haves, Michael Wetter, Brandon Hencey, Francesco Borrelli, Yudong Ma, and Sorin Bengea."Development and Testing of Model Predictive Control for a Campus Chilled Water Plant with Thermal Storage."2010 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2010).

Victor, Norrefeldt, Thierry Stephane Nouidui, and Gunnar Gruen."Development of an isothermal 2D zonal air volume model with impulse conservation."Clima 2010, 10th Rehva World Congress "Sustainable Energy Use in Buildings" (2010).

Raferty, Paul, Marcus Keane, James O'Donnell, and Andrea Costa."Energy Monitoring Systems value, issues and recommendations based on five case studies."Clima 2010 conference (2010).

Zuo, Wangda, and Qingyan Chen."Fast and informative flow simulation in a building by using fast fluid dynamics model on graphics processing unit."Building and Environment 45.3 (2010) 747-757.

Zuo, Wangda, and Qingyan Chen."Fast simulation of smoke transport in buildings."the 41st International HVAC&R congress (2010).

Hu, Jianjun, Wangda Zuo, and Qingyan Chen."Impact of time-splitting schemes on the accuracy of FFD simulations."the 7th International Indoor Air Quality, Ventilation and Energy Conservation in Buildings Conference (IAQVEC 2010) (2010) 55-60.

Liu, Mingsheng, Jingjuan Feng, Zhan Wang, Keke Zheng, and Xiufeng Pang."Impacts of Static Pressure Reset on VAV System Air Leakage, Fan Power, and Thermal Energy."ASHRAE Transactions 116.1 (2010) 428-436.

Zuo, Wangda, Jianjun Hu, and Qingyan Chen."Improvements on FFD modeling by using different numerical schemes."Numerical Heat Transfer, Part B Fundamentals 58.1 (2010) 1-16.

Zuo, Wangda, and Qingyan Chen."Improvements on the fast fluid dynamics model for indoor airflow simulation."the 4th National Conference of IBPSA-USA (SimBuild2010) (2010) 539-546.

Najafi, Massieh, David M. Auslander, Peter L. Bartlett, Philip Haves, and Michael D. Sohn."Modeling and Measurement Constraints in Fault Diagnostics for HVAC Systems."ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Controls (2010).

Zuo, Wangda, and Qingyan Chen."Simulations of air distribution in buildings by FFD on GPU."HVAC&R Research 16.6 (2010) 783-796.

Najafi, Massieh, David M. Auslander, Philip Haves, and Michael D. Sohn."A Statistical Pattern Analysis Framework for Rooftop Unit Diagnostics."International Journal of Heating, Ventilating, Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Research (2010).

Narayanan, Satish, Michael G. Apte, Philip Haves, Mary Ann Piette, and John Elliott."Systems Approach to Energy Efficient Building Operation: Case Studies and Lessons Learned in a University Campus."2010 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2010).

2009

Wang, Liping, Julie Gwilliam, and Phillip Jones."Case study of zero energy house design in UK."Energy and Buildings 41.11 (2009) 1215-1222.

Hong, Tianzhen, Stephen E. Selkowitz, and Mehry Yazdanian."Assessment of Energy Impact of Window Technologies for Commercial Buildings." (2009).

Nelson, Dean, Brian Day, Geoffrey C. Bell, Prajesh Bhattacharya, and Mike Ryan."“The Monitoring,” Panel: Chill-Off."Silicon Valley Leadership Group Data Center Energy Efficiency Summit (2009).

Wetter, Michael."Modelica Library for Building Heating, Ventilation and Air-Conditioning Systems."Proceedings of the 7th International Modelica Conference 43 (2009). DOI

Franke, Rüdiger, Francesco Casella, Martin Otter, Katrin Proelss, Michael Sielemann, and Michael Wetter."Standardization of thermo-fluid modeling in Modelica.Fluid 1.0."Proc. of the 7th International Modelica Conference 43 (2009). DOI

Kumar, V., Bettina Frohnapfel, Jovan Jovanović, Michael Breuer, Wangda Zuo, Ibrahim Hadzić, and Richard Lechner."Anisotropy invariant Reynolds stress model of turbulence (AIRSM) and its application on attached and separated wall-bounded flows."Flow, Turbulence and Combustion 83.1 (2009) 81-103. DOI

Trcka, Marija, Michael Wetter, and Jan Hensen."An implementation of co-simulation for performance prediction of innovative integrated HVAC systems in buildings."Proc. of the 11th IBPSA Conference (2009) 724-731.