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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.

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2006

Pan, Yiqun, Zhizhong Huang, Gang Wu, and Chen Chen."The Application of Building Energy Simulation and Calibration in Two High-Rise Commercial Buildings in Shanghai."SimBuild 2006 (2006).

Mahattanataw, Prechaya, Charunpat Puvanant, and Darunee Mongkolsawat."The Energy Performance of the Cold-Formed Steel-Frame and Wood-Frame Houses Developed for Thailand."SimBuild 2006 (2006).

Huang, Yu Joe, Norman Bourassa, Walter F Buhl, Ender Erdem, and Robert J Hitchcock."Using EnergyPlus for California Title-24 Compliance Calculations."SimBuild 2006 (2006).

Huang, Yu Joe, Norman Bourassa, Walter F Buhl, Ender Erdem, and Robert J Hitchcock."Using EnergyPlus for California Title-24 compliance calculations."SimBuild 2006 (2006).

Torcellini, Paul A, Shanti Pless, Michael Deru, and Drury B Crawley."Zero Energy Buildings: A Critical Look at the Definition."2006 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2006).

Weber, Andreas, Ian Beausoleil-Morrison, Brent T Griffith, Teemu Vesanen, and Sébastien Lerson."A Case Study Demonstrating the Utility of Inter-Program Comparative Testing for Diagnosing Errors in Building Simulation Programs."eSim 2006 (2006).

Göçer, Özgür, Aslihan Tavil, and Ertan Özkan."Thermal Performance Simulation of an Atrium Building."eSim 2006 (2006).

Wang, Liping, and Nyuk Hien Wong."A coupling method to increase the accuracy of natural ventilation prediction in thermal simulation program."the 2nd International conference on sustainable architecture and urban design in tropical regions, Jogjakarta (2006).

Wang, Liping, and Nyuk Hien Wong."Coupling between the CFD simulation and building simulation for better prediction of natural ventilation."the 2nd International conference on sustainable architecture and urban design in tropical regions, Jogjakarta (2006).

Bhattacharya, Prajesh, X Wei, Andrei G Fedorov, Yogendra K Joshi, Navdeep Bajwa, Anyuan Cao, and Pulickel Ajayan."Carbon Nanotube (CNT)-Centric Thermal Management of Future High Power Microprocessors."IEEE CPMT International Symposium and Exhibition on Advanced Packaging Materials (2006).

Krishnamurthy, S, Prajesh Bhattacharya, Patrick E Phelan, and Ravi S Prasher."Enhanced Mass Transport in Nanofluids."Nanoletters 6.3 (2006) 419-423. DOI

Gillespie, Kenneth L, Philip Haves, Robert J Hitchcock, Joseph J Deringer, and Kristopher L Kinney."A Guide for Specifying Performance Monitoring Systems in Commercial and Institutional Buildings."14th National Conference on Building Commissioning (2006).

Pang, Xiufeng, B Zheng, and Mingsheng Liu."Case Study of Continuous Commissioning in an Office Building."the 6th International Conference of Enhanced Building Operations (2006).

Weber, Adam Z, and John S Newman."Coupled Thermal and Water Management in Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 153.12 (2006) A2205-A2214. DOI

Xu, Peng, Philip Haves, and Dimitri Curtil."A Library of HVAC Component Models for use in Automated Diagnostics."SimBuild 2006 (2006).

Nytsch-Geusen, Christoph, Thilo Ernst, Peter Schwarz, Mathias Vetter, Andreas Holm, Juergen Leopold, Alexander Mattes, Andre Nordwig, Peter Schneider, Christoph Wittwer, Thierry Stephane Nouidui, and Gerhardt Schmidt."Advanced modeling and simulation techniques in MOSILAB: A system development case study."5th International Modelica Conference (2006) pp.63-72.

Prasher, Ravi S, Prajesh Bhattacharya, and Patrick E Phelan."Brownian Motion Based Convective- Conductive Model for the Effective Thermal Conductivity of Nanofluids."Journal of Heat Transfer 128 (2006) 588-595.

Xu, Peng, and Philip Haves."Case Study of Demand Shifting with Thermal Mass in Two Large Commercial Buildings."ASHRAE Transactions 112.Pt. 1 (2006).

Kosar, Douglas, Don Shirey, Mangesh Basarkar, Muthasamy Swami, and Richard Raustad."Dehumidification Enhancement of Direct Expansion Systems through Component Augmentation of the Cooling Coil."Fifteenth Symposium on Improving Building Systems in Hot and Humid Climates, July 24-26, 2006 (2006).

Prasher, Ravi S, Prajesh Bhattacharya, and Patrick E Phelan."Effect of Aggregation Kinetics on the Thermal Conductivity of Nanoscale Colloidal Solutions (Nanofluids)."Nanoletters 6 (2006) 1529-1534.

Nytsch-Geusen, Christoph, Andre Nordwig, Mathias Vetter, Christoph Wittwer, Thierry Stephane Nouidui, and Peter Schneider."MOSILAB: Ein Modelica-Simulationswerkzeug zur energetischen Gebäude- und Anlagensimulation."16. Symposium Thermische Solarenergie (2006).

Polak, Elijah, and Michael Wetter."Precision control for generalized pattern search algorithms with adaptive precision function evaluations."SIAM Journal on Optimization 16.3 (2006) 650-669 . DOI

Nouidui, Thierry Stephane, Christoph Nytsch-Geusen, and Andreas Holm."Validierung der eindimensionalen hygrothermischen Wandmodelle der Modelica-Bibliothek "BuildingPhysicsLibrary"."BauSIM 2006 (2006) pp.144-146.

2005

Bhattacharya, Prajesh, Patrick E Phelan, and Ravi S Prasher."Computational Analysis of the Colloidal Stability of Nanofluids."International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (2005).

Nara, S, Prajesh Bhattacharya, P Vijayan, W . Y. Lai, W Rosenthal, Patrick E Phelan, Ravi S Prasher, David W Song, and Jinlin Wang."Experimental Determination of the Effect of Varying Base Fluid and Temperature on the Static Thermal Conductivity of Nanofluids."ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, November 5-11, 2005 (2005). DOI