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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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2014

Logue, Jennifer M., Max H. Sherman, and Brett C. Singer."A Method for Quantifying the Acute Health Impacts of Residential Non-Biological Exposure Via Inhalation." (2014).

Mendell, Mark J., Ekaterina Eliseeva, Michael Spears, Wanyu R. Chan, Sebastian Cohn, Douglas P. Sullivan, and William J. Fisk."A Prospective Study of Ventilation Rates and Illness Absence in California Office Buildings." (2014).

2013

Maddalena, Randy L., Mark J. Mendell, Ekaterina Eliseeva, Wanyu R. Chan, Douglas P. Sullivan, Marion L. Russell, Michael G. Apte, Usha Satish, and William J. Fisk."Impact of Independently Controlling Ventilation Rate per Person and Ventilation Rate per Floor Area on Perceived Air Quality, Sick Building Symptoms and Decision Making." (2013).

Fisk, William J., Sebastian Cohn, Hugo Destaillats, Victor Henzel, Meera A. Sidheswaran, and Douglas P. Sullivan."Integrated Technology Air Cleaners (ITAC): Design and Evaluation." (2013).

Fisk, William J., Spencer M. Dutton, Mark J. Mendell, and Wanyu R. Chan."Should Title 24 Ventilation Requirements Be Amended to include an Indoor Air Quality Procedure?." (2013).

Sidheswaran, Meera A., Wenhao Chen, Agatha Chang, Robert Miller, Sebastian Cohn, Douglas P. Sullivan, William J. Fisk, Kazukiyo Kumagai, and Hugo Destaillats."Formaldehyde Emissions from Ventilation Filters Under Different Relative Humidity Conditions."Environmental Science and Technology 47.10 (2013) 5336-5343. DOI

Walker, Iain S., Darryl J. Dickerhoff, David Faulkner, and William J. N. Turner."System Effects of High Efficiency Filters in Homes."ASHRAE Annual Conference (2013).

Bhangar, Seema, Brett C. Singer, and William W. Nazaroff."Calibration of the Ogawa Ozone Passive Sampler for Aircraft Cabins."Atmospheric Environment 65 (2013) 21-24. DOI

Rosseler, Olivier, Mohamad Sleiman, V. Nahuel Montesinos, Andrey Shavorskiy, Valerie Keller, Nicolas Keller, Marta I. Litter, Hendrik Bluhm, Miquel Salmeron, and Hugo Destaillats."Chemistry of NOx on TiO2 surfaces studied by ambient pressure XPS: products, effect of UV irradiation, water and coadsorbed K+."J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 4.3 (2013) 536-541. DOI

Logue, Jennifer M., Max H. Sherman, Iain S. Walker, and Brett C. Singer."Energy Impacts of Envelope Tightening and Mechanical Ventilation for the U.S. Residential Sector."Energy and Building 65 (2013) 281-291. DOI

Walker, Iain S., Darryl J. Dickerhoff, David Faulkner, and William J. N. Turner."Energy Implications of In-‐Line Filtration in California." (2013).

Dutton, Spencer M., Wanyu R. Chan, Mark J. Mendell, Marcella Barrios, Srinandini Parthasarathy, Meera A. Sidheswaran, Douglas P. Sullivan, Ekaterina Eliseeva, and William J. Fisk."Evaluation of the Indoor Air Quality Procedure for Use in Retail Buildings." (2013).

Fisk, William J.."Health benefits of particle filtration."Indoor Air (2013). DOI

Zazueta, Ana Luisa Loo, Hugo Destaillats, and Gianluca Li Puma."Radiation field modeling and optimization of a compact and modular multi-plate photocatalytic reactor (MPPR) for air/water purification by Monte Carlo method."Chemical Engineering Journal 217 (2013) 475-485. DOI

2012

Parthasarathy, Srinandini, Wanyu R. Chan, William J. Fisk, and Thomas E. McKone."Modeling indoor exposures to VOCs and SVOCs as ventilation rates vary."Healthy Buildings 2012 - 10th International Conference (2012).

Chan, Wanyu R., Meera A. Sidheswaran, Douglas P. Sullivan, Sebastian Cohn, and William J. Fisk."Contaminant levels and source strengths in U.S. retail stores — A pilot study."Healthy Buildings 2012 - 10th International Conference (2012).

Singer, Brett C., William W. Delp, Michael G. Apte, and Phillip N. Price."Performance of Installed Cooking Exhaust Devices."Indoor Air 22.3 (2012) 224-234. DOI

Kibanova, Daria, Mohamad Sleiman, Javiera Cervini-Silva, and Hugo Destaillats."Adsorption and photocatalytic oxidation of formaldehyde on a clay-TiO2 composite."Journal of Hazardous Materials 212-212 (2012) 233-239. DOI

Sidheswaran, Meera A., Hugo Destaillats, Douglas P. Sullivan, Sebastian Cohn, and William J. Fisk."Energy efficient indoor VOC air cleaning with activated carbon fiber (ACF) filters."Building and Environment 47 (2012) 368-372. DOI

Chan, Wanyu R., Meera A. Sidheswaran, Douglas P. Sullivan, Sebastian Cohn, and William J. Fisk."Healthy Zero Energy Buildings (HZEB) Program– Interim Report on Cross‐Sectional Study of Contaminant Levels, Source Strengths, and Ventilation Rates in Retail Stores." (2012).

Destaillats, Hugo, Mohamad Sleiman, Douglas P. Sullivan, Catherine Jacquiod, Jean Sablayrolles, and Laurent Molins."Key parameters influencing the performance of photocatalytic oxidation (PCO) air purification under realistic indoor conditions."Applied Catalysis B: Environmental 128 (2012) 159-170. DOI

2011

Logue, Jennifer M., Phillip N. Price, Max H. Sherman, and Brett C. Singer."Why We Ventilate."2011 32nd AIVC Conference and 1st Tightvent Conference (2011).

Sidheswaran, Meera A., Douglas P. Sullivan, Hugo Destaillats, and William J. Fisk."Active and passive methods for indoor formaldehyde elimination."Indoor Air 2011 (2011).

Sidheswaran, Meera A., Regina N. Williams, Lara A. Gundel, Melissa M. Lunden, William J. Fisk, Michael G. Apte, and Hugo Destaillats."Characterization Of Reaction Products And Ultrafine Particles From Ozone-initiated Chemistry On Filters From Ventilation Systems In Commercial Buildings."12th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate, June 5-10, 2011 (2011).

Sidheswaran, Meera A., Douglas P. Sullivan, Hugo Destaillats, and William J. Fisk."Energy-efficient indoor volatile organic compound air cleaning using activated carbon fiber media with nightly regeneration."Indoor Air 2011 (2011).