ASHRAE dará una beca a 21 estudiantes participantes en el “ASHRAE Graduate Student Grant-in-aid Award Program”

Con la ayuda de estudiantes becados, ASHRAE quiere obtener respuestas a la pregunta de cuanta energía consumen los usuarios de oficinas y cómo impacta ésta en su confort personal .

Jared Langevin, de la Drexel University desarrollará , a través de su proyecto: “Comportamiento Humano y Arquitectura de Bajo Consumo, como parte de la adaptación al medio, el confort personal y el uso de la energía en el entorno construido “ el diseño de las mejores herramientas para cuantificar el confort y el comportamiento de los ocupantes como partes integrantes del edificio y de los procesos de operación

El proyecto incluirá la construcción de un marco general para vincular la simulación del comportamiento de los ocupantes con programas de simulación energética de todo el edificio, de forma que los resultados del comportamiento, confort y productividad pueden ser evaluados directamente junto a los impactos del uso de energía posible en el diseño ,la construcción y operación de los edificios.

Langevin también desarrollará una rutina de simulación de comportamiento de los ocupantes de las oficinas que generará patrones de comportamiento individual y de grupo de manera que ,esta rutina ,se pueda integrar en el marco general de la simulación del edificio. Incluirá paquetes de salida desde la herramienta de simulación del comportamiento-energético integrado de forma que pueda ser entendida por ingenieros y arquitectos.

Los estudiantes y los proyectos que han recibido la beca de Student Grant son :

• Rohit Andhare, University Maryland, Experimental Heat Transfer and Pressure Drop Characteristics of a Novel Solution Heat Exchanger for Absorption Cooling

• Martinus Arie, University of Maryland, Numerical Modeling and Optimization of Manifold-Microchannel Heat Exchanger for HVAC Applications

• Rodrigo Barraza, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Thermal-Fluid Behavior of Mixed Refrigerants for Cryogenic Applications

• Jie Cai, Purdue University, Inverse Modeling of Building Envelope ad HVAC Systems to Enable Control and Retrofit Analysis

• Ying-Chieh Chan, Purdue University, Analysis and Optimization of Intelligent and Multi-functional Facades for Building Perimeter Zones

• Chun Chen, Purdue University, Modeling Person-to-Person Contaminant Transport in a Mechanical Ventilation Space

• Justin DeBlois, University of Pittsburgh, Informing Energy Efficient Occupant Behavior with Real Time Building Energy Modeling

• Dhruv Hoysall, Georgia Institute of Technology, Characterization of Heat and Mass Transfer Mechanism in Convective Ammonia-water Absorption at the Microscales

• Yang-Seon Kim, Pennsylvania State University, Occupants Number and Behavior can have Large Effects of Building Energy Use

• Jared Langevin, Drexel University, Human Behavior & Low Energy Architecture Linking Environmental Adaptation, Personal Comfort and Energy Use in the Built Environment; also receives the Grant-In-Aid Life Member Club grant designation given to the highest top-rated applicants and supported by a financial contribution from the club.

• Jared Levy, University of Maryland, Next Generation, Ultra-Efficient, Micro-structured Thin Film Heat Exchangers for Low Delta T Energy Recovery

• Yirui Liang, University of Texas-Austin, The Efficiency of HVAC Filters in Reducing Semi Volatile Organic Compounds in Indoor Environment; also receives the Grant-In-Aid Life Member Club grant designation given to the highest top-rated applicants and supported by a financial contribution from the club.

• Dusan Licina, National University of Singapore, Impact of Human Convective Boundary Layer on Inhaled Air Quality and Its Protective Role Under Different Ventilation Strategies

• Malcolm MacDonald, Georgia Institute of Technology, Heat Transfer and Pressure Drop Condensation of Pure and Multi Component Hydrocarbons Mixtures

• Kristen Markham, University of Texas-Austin, Assessing the Performance of Buildings Due to Extreme Weather and Climate Change

• Samantha Perkarscik, University of Kansas, Air-Side Economizer Low-Limits Effect on Energy and Thermal Comfort

• Aakash Rai, Purdue University, Developing Risk Paradigm for VOCs and Particles from Ozone Reactions in Aircraft Cabin

• Shane Riley, Univeristy of Texas, Demand Optimized Protocol for Photo-Voltaic System Orientation

• Ryan Tanner, University of Colorado-Boulder, Stochastic Control Optimization of Mixed-Mode Buildings

• Yu Xue, Tianjin University, Inverse Design Theory of Aircraft Cabin Environment with Genetic Algorithm ad Adjoint Method

• Nicholas Zibin, Concordia University, Calibrating a Building Energy Model on a Component Level Using a Bottom-up Based Methodology