The Intelligent Workplace Energy Supply Systems (IWESS)
Using the building as a powerplant for energy supply
Summary
The Building as Power Plant initiative is in the design-engineering phase integrating advanced energy-effective building technologies (ascending strategies) with innovative distributed energy generation systems (cascading strategies), such that most or all of the building's energy needs for heating, cooling, ventilating, and lighting are met on-site. The Intelligent Workplace Energy Supply System installed at Carnegie Mellon University is an experimental integrated set of systems and components designed to use solar thermal energy and a renewable liquid fuel to provide combined power, cooling, heating, and ventilation in concert with passive energy systems towards zero carbon/net energy performance.
Publications and reports
TBD
Example integration of the hydraulic network simulator.
Yu, Y., Loftness, V., Yu, D., Lu, Y., & Hartkopf, V. (2012). Development And Evaluation Of A Simplified Modeling Approach For Hydraulic Systems.
Example PhD Thesis
Yang Hu (PhD-BPD, 2012)
Advanced Exergy Analysis for a Solar Double Stage Absorption Chiller
(Volker Hartkopf • Vivian Loftness • Laura Schaefer, MechE, University of Pittsburgh)