ESL Theses and Dissertations
This collection contains theses and dissertations by graduate students affiliated with the Energy Systems Laboratory.
A listing of these documents is found in the catalog on the ESL Community's main page. This list is comprehensive and searchable. It provides a complete view of all documents in the ESL Digital Library except for the proceedings, although a few of them are listed as Published Articles (PAs).
Some of the Master's Theses are not available at this site because of permission constraints. Please email the ESL Librarian at esl_librarian@tees.tamus.edu for more information on the restricted documents.
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The Doctoral Dissertations are located in the Office of Graduate Studies collection.
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(2022-11-09)A significant portion of energy consumption occurs in buildings today. Accurate and easy-to-implement methods are needed to calculate building energy consumption for a wide range of applications, including efficiency ...
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(2020-12)Occupant behavior has a significant influence on energy consumption in buildings because HVAC, lighting, equipment, and ventilation operations are often tied to occupancy- based controls. However, currently, the traditional ...
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(2020-12)Currently, the International Energy Conservation Code (IECC) is the most widely-used residential building energy code in the United States. Either the IECC or IECC with amendments has been adopted by 33 states. The latest ...
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(2020-12)Degree day methods are used in the estimation of building energy consumption and climate classification for buildings (e.g. in ASHRAE Standard 169-2013, which is adopted in ASHRAE Standard 90.1-2016). This study, first ...
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(2020-08)There are many inverse modeling methods to model the whole building energy use. Multiple linear regression (MLR) and change-point liner regression (CPLR) have been some of the most common methods due to their direct ...
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(2020-09-13)The outcome of this study is the development of a prototype REVIT2RADIANCE add-in program for a Building Information Modeling (BIM) authoring tool Autodesk Revit to perform daylighting studies with ease by architects and ...
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(University of Colorado, 1986-07)This work concludes six years of energy conservation studies performed for the University of Colorado Student Recreation Center. The studies began late in 1980 when the University of Colorado Student Administrators asked ...
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(Texas A&M University, 1988-12)A study on the effects of frost growth on the performance of finned tube heat exchangers under laminar flow has been conducted. The study was both experimental and analytical. The experimental part of the investigation ...
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(Texas A&M University, 1991-05)Infiltration is customarily assumed to increase the heating and cooling load of a building by an amount equal to the mass flow rate of the infiltration times the enthalpy difference between the inside and outside air - ...
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(Texas A&M University, 1992-11)This report presents results from degraded performance measurements of a residential air conditioning system operating under reduced evaporator air flow. Experiments were conducted using a R-22 three-ton split-type cooling ...
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(Texas A&M University, 1993-08)The work described in this report was performed under the direction of the Energy Analysis and Diagnostic Center (EADC) at Texas A&M University. The EADC program is managed by University City Science Center under agreement ...
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(Texas A&M University, 1993-12)Approximately 3% of the United States' commercial building energy consumption is attributable to food sales facilities. Although this is one of the smallest consumption percentages, it is still significant, amounting to ...
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(Texas A&M University, 1995-12)Particle deposition in contraction fittings with half-angles of 12 degrees, 45 degrees, and 90 degrees; expansion fittings with half-angles of 3 degrees, 6 degrees, 12 degrees, 45 degrees, and 90 degrees; and ...
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(Texas A&M University, 1995-05)This dissertation develops Fourier series and Artificial Neural Network (ANN) approaches to model hourly energy use in commercial buildings and illustrates application to data-screening. The procedure for modeling hourly ...
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(Texas A&M University, 1995-08)This report describes an investigation of energy use at various LoanSTAR sites. The effects of installing Energy Management Control Systems (EMCS) on electricity consumption was studied at four LoanSTAR sites: Stroman ...
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(Texas A&M University, 1995-08)The present work is concerned with developing a discretized analytical model to investigate the effect of a backfill on the performance of a vertical U-tube ground-coupled heat pump. This work involves the development ...
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(Texas A&M University, 1995-12)The effects of hydrophobic coatings on the dropwise condensation process for a flat horizontal copper plate held at a temperature much lower than the surrounding air was investigated. Extensive qualitative and quantitative ...
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(Texas A&M University, 1996-05)The heat transfer and the freezing process of condensate droplets resting on a cold metal plate have been studied both experimentally and numerically. The experimental part of the investigation dealt with the measurements ...