Browsing by Author "Culp, Charles H."
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Analysis of Improved Fenestration for Code-Compliant Residential Buildings in Hot and Humid Climates Mukhopadhyay, Jaya (Texas A&M University, 2006-10-30)This thesis presents an analysis of energy efficient residential windows in hot and humid climates. To accomplish this analysis, the use of accurate simulation tools such as DOE-2.1e is required, which incorporates the ...
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Tanskyi, Oleksandr (2012-02-14)The commercial buildings sector in the United States used 18 percent (17.93 Quads) of the U.S. primary energy in 2006. Office buildings are the largest single energy consumption category in the commercial buildings sector ...
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Malhotra, Mini (2010-07-14)This dissertation addresses the issues of climate change and depletion of non-renewable resources of energy and water, and aims at eliminating the use of non-renewable resources of energy and water for the building operation ...
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Negi, Pallav (Texas A&M University, 2007-09-17)Borrowing ideas from natural immunity, Artificial Immune Systems (AIS) offer a novel approach to solving many diagnosis, optimization and control problems. In the course of this research this paradigm was applied to the ...
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McGarity, Ashley (2010-07-14)Building Information Modeling (BIM) Technology has been around for several years and has proven to be very helpful in aiding engineers, architects, and contractors with their projects. BIM is a set of computer programs ...
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Baltazar Cervantes, Juan Carlos (Texas A&M University, 2007-04-25)This dissertation provides one methodology to determine potential energy savings of buildings with limited information. This methodology is based upon the simplified energy analysis procedure of HVAC systems and the control ...
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Development of an Improved Methodology for Analyzing Existing Single-Family Residential Energy Use Kim, Kee Han (2014-05-29)The purpose of this study was to develop an improved methodology for analyzing the energy use from existing single-family. The overall goal of this work is to make home energy audits more effective by providing homeowners ...
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Development of new methodologies for evaluating the energy performance of new commercial buildings Song, Suwon (2009-06-02)The concept of Measurement and Verification (M&V) of a new building continues to become more important because efficient design alone is often not sufficient to deliver an efficient building. Simulation models that are ...
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Dooley, Jeffrey Brandon (Texas A&M University, 2005-02-17)Three experimental studies were conducted to quantify the effects of system cycling, evaporator airflow, and condenser coil fouling on the performance of residential air conditioners. For all studies, the indoor dry-bulb ...
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McDonald, Christopher Ernest (2009-06-02)The goals of this research include developing and identifying software technologies, which facilitate the use of buildings described in Building Information Modeling (BIM) tools in both a simulation and visualization. The ...
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Chen, Wei-Jen (2017-01-09)Buildings in a hot and humid climate usually are kept at a positive pressurization level to avoid infiltration induced issues such as mold growth within building envelopes. This dissertation combines existing models of ...
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Sau, Arunabha (2010-10-12)From the various studies, it can be concluded that the excessive summer heating and the humidity are one of the major problems of the hot, humid climatic region. The literature review for this study shows that natural ...
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Wang, Linyan (2015-07-29)Usually, the chiller and boiler efficiencies are the primary measures that are considered with respect to building HVAC systems efficiency. However, during operation, several other components consume energy as part of the ...
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Zhang, Zhiqin (2011-08-08)This dissertation proposed a new methodology for determining the optimal operating strategies for a chilled water storage system under a Time-of-Use electricity rate structure. It is based on a new classification of operating ...
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Ma, Liang (2012-02-14)This thesis proposes a methodology for determining sensitivity of building energy consumption of HVAC systems to sensor error. It is based on a series of simulations of a generic building, the model for which is based on ...
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Im, Piljae (Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)Currently, four areas of Texas have been designated by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as non-attainment areas because they exceeded the national one-hour ground-level ozone standard of 0.12 ...
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Xie, Xie (2016-08-08)This thesis presents a comprehensive methodology for engineers and plant managers to use for optimizing the combined chiller power and cooling tower fan power for cooling systems without the traditional assumption that the ...
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Kimla, John (2010-07-14)The potential of static pressure reset (SPR) control to save fan energy in variable air volume HVAC systems has been well documented. Current research has focused on the creation of reset strategies depending on specific ...
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Oh, Sukjoon (2013-08-19)Current designs of high performance buildings utilize hourly building energy simulations of complex, interacting systems. Such simulations need to quantify the benefits of numerous features including: thermal mass, HVAC ...
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Oh, Sukjoon (2017-08-30)This study quantifies the electricity savings to homeowners when they install and use Home Automation Devices (HADs), which are also called Internet of Things (IoT), in a residence. To accomplish this study, new analysis ...