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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) 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: Indoor Airflow & Pollutant Transport

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2002

Lorenzetti, David M.."Predicting Indoor Pollutant Concentrations, and Applications to Air Quality Management."Proceedings of the Joint WHO-JRC-ECA Workshop on the Role of Human Exposure Assessment in Air Quality Management, Bonn, Germany (2002).

Sohn, Michael D., Pamela Reynolds, Navtej Singh, and Ashok J. Gadgil."Rapidly locating and characterizing pollutant releases in buildings: An application of Bayesian data analysis."Journal of the Air and Waste Management Association 52.12 (2002) 1422-1432. DOI

Sohn, Michael D., Pamela Reynolds, Ashok J. Gadgil, and Richard G. Sextro."Rapidly Locating Sources And Predicting Contaminant Dispersion In Buildings."Proceedings of the Indoor Air 2002 Conference, Monterey, CA 4 (2002) 211-216.

2001

Thatcher, Tracy L., Thomas E. McKone, William J. Fisk, Michael D. Sohn, William W. Delp, William J. Riley, and Richard G. Sextro."Factors Affecting the Concentration of Outdoor Particles Indoors (COPI): Identification of Data Needs and Existing Data." (2001).

Lorenzetti, David M.."Assessing Multizone Airflow Software." (2001).

Fischer, Marc L., Phillip N. Price, Tracy L. Thatcher, Carrie A. Schwalbe, Mathias J. Craig, Emily E. Wood, Richard G. Sextro, and Ashok J. Gadgil."Rapid Measurement and Mapping of Tracer Gas Concentrations in a Large Indoor Space."Atmospheric Environment 35 (2001) 2837-2844. DOI

2000

Gadgil, Ashok J., Elizabeth U. Finlayson, Marc L. Fischer, Phillip N. Price, Tracy L. Thatcher, Mathias J. Craig, Ki-Hyuck Hong, J. Housman, Carrie A. Schwalbe, David J. Wilson, Emily E. Wood, and Richard G. Sextro."Pollutant transport and dispersion in large indoor spaces: A status report for the large space effort of the Interiors Project." (2000).

Thatcher, Tracy L., Melissa M. Lunden, Marc L. Fischer, James D. Fine, Thomas W. Kirchstetter, Susanne V. Hering, Richard G. Sextro, and Nancy J. Brown."A Concentration Rebound Method For Measuring Particle Penetration Into A Residence, Section 12A1."Proceedings of the 19th Annual American Association for Aerosol Research, St. Louis, MO (2000).

Lorenzetti, David M., and Michael D. Sohn."Improving Speed and Robustness of the COMIS Solver."Proceedings of the RoomVent 2000,7th International Conference on Air Distribution in Rooms, Reading, UK 1 (2000) 241-246.

1999

Sohn, Michael D., Joan M. Daisey, and Helmut E. Feustel."Characterizing indoor airflow and pollutant transport using simulation modeling for prototypical buildings. 1. Office buildings."Proceedings of the Indoor Air '99, Edinburgh, Scotland 4 (1999) 719-724.

Sohn, Michael D., Alvin C.K. Lai, Brian V. Smith, Richard G. Sextro, Helmut E. Feustel, and William W. Nazaroff."Modeling aerosol behavior in multizone indoor environments."Proceedings of the Indoor Air '99, Edinburgh, Scotland 4 (1999) 785-790.