Browsing OU - Theses by Author "Cai, Jie"
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Analysis and Application of Virtual-Flow Meter Technology for Chiller-Water Valve and Outside-Air Controls
Hashem, Marwan (2022-05)The following work focuses on using virtual flow meters (VFM) for HVAC controls and how they can replace physical sensors to reduce cost and increase efficiency. The study focuses on implementing VFM to measure outdoor ... -
Design and Analysis of a Novel Freeze Desalination System for Treatment of Oil and Gas Produced Water
Mogollon Acosta, Paolo (2021-05-14)Freeze desalination is an alternative technology that has received a lot of attention due to several advantages. Among these, the lower energy consumption and low operation temperature are the most important ones. The ... -
Development and assessment of constrained reinforcement learning-based controller for building demand response
Sanchez, Jerson (2023-12-15)Recent advancements in model-free control strategies, such as reinforcement learning (RL) have led to more practical and scalable solutions for building energy system controls These strategies do not require complex models ... -
Development of Envelope Evaluation Benchmarks Using EnergyPlus and Data-Driven Thermal Model
Xie, Luyao (2022-12)Residential buildings account for a large portion of the consumption of the global energy and total energy by end use. To mitigate the rising trend of energy consumption, residential buildings show a huge potential by ... -
Distributed Energy Feedback Control for Demand Response Operations in Commercial HVAC Systems
Hurt, Rodney (2021-08)The goal of this thesis is to identify methods to control a commercial Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) system that results in precise control of the cooling coil load and the ability to prioritize the ... -
DyOb-SLAM: Dynamic Object Tracking SLAM system
Wadud, Rushmian (2021)Simultaneous Localization & Mapping (SLAM) is considered as the process of building a mutual relationship between localization and mapping of the subject in its surrounding environment. With the help of different sensors, ... -
Energy Performance Study of Heating, Cooling, and Hot Water System Integrated with Latent Heat Thermal Energy Storage in Different U.S. Climate Zones
Hakizimana, Emmanuel (2020-07-30)An energy performance study of a novel solar thermal-powered heating, cooling, and hot water system, integrated with a latent heat thermal energy storage (LHTES) system and applied in cities in different climate zones (or ... -
Experimental and numerical study on separation of solid-liquid slurries
Rahimi, Hootan (2020-12)The separation of solid-liquid slurries, as a critical stage of a novel zero-liquid discharge (ZDL) eutectic-freeze desalination method, is the focus of this thesis. Firstly, various technologies for separation of solid-liquid ... -
Fault Detection and Diagnosis of Air Handling Unit in HVAC System Using Cloud-based Data Logging System
Lee, David (2019-05-10)This project encompasses the engineering principles of design and testing of the implementation of a fault detection and diagnosis (FDD) using cloud-based data logging system on Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning ... -
Flames as a Unique Pyrolyzing Source for the Formation of Hydrophobic Carbon Films on Solid Substrates
Merchan-Breuer, Duncan (2022)In this work the rapid single-step flame synthesis of hydrophobic carbon layers (C-layers) on the surface of stainless-steel (SS) substrates is explored. A co-flow flame is used to generate a hydrophobic monolayer on the ... -
Infrared Thermal Imaging-Based Thermal Diffusivity Measurement Using Angstrom Method
Woolery, Bradley (2021-05-14)Characterizing the thermal diffusivity of materials is a vital step in the creation of new polymer nanocomposites. Determining the in-plane thermal diffusivity as compared to the through-plane thermal diffusivity may show ... -
Integration of phase change material-based thermal energy storage in air distribution systems to increase building power flexibility
Hlanze, Philani (2020-12-18)Thermal energy storage is one of the many strategies that are effective in alleviating the electrical power supply and demand imbalance issues on the electric grid, and buildings are a good place to implement such storage ... -
A Study of Solar Photovoltaic Grid Integration in Radial Distribution Systems
Glover, Daniel (2021-05-14)Recent years have shown an increase in penetration of solar photovoltaic (PV) and other renewable generation onto the distribution grid. Research has demonstrated several benefits of PV integration, both for supporting ... -
Virtual Measurement of Valve Performance and its Application in Energy Efficiency Improvements
Shahahmadi, Shima Sadat (2018-12)For heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning engineers, the measurement of system performance is a vital step in ensuring that the system in use is functioning at its optimal functionality. The measurement of water flow ...