Browsing ASME Journal of Engineering for Sustainable Buildings and Cities by Issue Date
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Modeling and Simulation of Building Cooling System With Supercooling-Based Ice Energy Storage
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)City’s electricity power grid is under heavy load during on-peak hours throughout summer cooling season. As the result, many utility companies implemented the time-of-use rate of electricity leading to high electricity ... -
Effects of Rooftop Photovoltaics on Building Cooling Demand and Sensible Heat Flux Into the Environment for an Installation on a White Roof
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Photovoltaic (PV) panels are commonly used for on-site generation of electricity in urban environments, specifically on rooftops. However, their implementation on rooftops poses potential (positive and negative) impacts ... -
Resilience of Complex Adaptive Systems: A Pedagogical Framework for Engineering Education and Research
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)The discourse on resilience, currently at the forefront of research and implementation in a wide variety of fields, is confusing because of its multi-disciplinary/spatial/temporal nature. Resilience analysis is a discipline ... -
Demand Side Management: Optimal Demand Response in Distribution Networks With Several Energy Retail Companies
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)In this work, a social welfare maximization problem is solved to determine the optimal scheduling of end-user controllable loads, smart appliances, and energy storage. The framework considers multiple retail energy suppliers ... -
Optimization of PV Cleaning Practices: Comparison Between Performance-Based and Periodic-Based Approaches
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Soiling of photovoltaics (PV) panels is affected by various factors such as relative humidity, dust concentration, and panel tilt angle. The soiling can lead to significant losses in electricity production, especially in ... -
Overlooked Role of Technology in the Sustainability Movement: A Pedagogical Framework for Engineering Education and Research
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)The term “sustainability” has acquired an all-encompassing ambiguous aura, given that it touches on all facets of human endeavor. This paper, meant to provide a pedagogical framework for engineering education, starts by ... -
Energy Usage Intensity of Bank Building Stock: A Case Study in Pakistan
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Energy usage intensity (EUI, kWh/m2/year) of a building category helps energy managers and building owners in evaluating the energy performance of their buildings. Banks are energy-intensive buildings, but there is limited ... -
A Computationally Efficient, High-Fidelity Testbed for Building Climate Control
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Advanced building climate control systems have the potential to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions and energy costs, but more research is needed to bring these systems to market. A key component of building ... -
Energy Efficiency Improvement in K-12 Schools: A Case Study in Florida
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)K-12 schools are responsible for over 1.4% of the total annual energy consumption in the United States. In a collaboration between Florida Institute of Technology and Brevard Public Schools (BPS), three schools are identified ... -
Numerical Investigation of Smoke Propagation in Road Tunnels Caused by a Burned Truck
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)The efficiency of smoke extraction for longitudinal and transverse tunnel ventilation systems was studied in this paper by conducting numerical simulations using computational fluid dynamics (CFD). The smoke was assumed ... -
Using Cluster Analysis and Dynamic Programming for Demand Response Applied to Electricity Load in Residential Homes
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)This paper develops means to analyze and cluster residential households into homogeneous groups based on the electricity load. Classifying customers by electricity load profiles is a top priority for retail electric providers ... -
Providing Grid Services With Heat Pumps: A Review
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)The integration of variable and intermittent renewable energy generation into the power system is a grand challenge to our efforts to achieve a sustainable future. Flexible demand is one solution to this challenge, where ... -
Multiple-Benefit Analysis of Scaling-Up Building Energy Efficiency Programs: The Case Study of Tunisia
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)This paper evaluates the benefits of scaling-up energy efficiency and renewable energy programs for the building sector in Tunisia. Both energy and non-energy benefits are quantified using a bottom-up analysis approach to ... -
Projections of Wind Gusts for New York City Under a Changing Climate
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)To determine potential changes in the frequency and intensity of future storm events due to climate change in New York City (NYC), a statistical downscaling technique is proposed. First, a historical benchmark was determined ... -
Adapting to Extreme Heat: Social, Atmospheric, and Infrastructure Impacts of Air-Conditioning in Megacities—The Case of New York City
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Extreme heat events are becoming more frequent and intense. In cities, the urban heat island (UHI) can often intensify extreme heat exposure, presenting a public health challenge across vulnerable populations without access ... -
Bringing Automated Fault Detection and Diagnostics Tools for HVAC&R Into the Mainstream
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems consume over 5 quads of energy annually, representing 30% of energy consumption in the U.S. commercial buildings. Additionally, commercial refrigeration (R) systems ... -
Special Issue: Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings—Part 1
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)The GEB special issue JESBC covers a wide range of topics to enhance the sustainability, resiliency, and flexibility buildings energy systems including innovative technologies to enhance energy efficiency for various ... -
Evaluation of Interactions Between Thermal Piles Integrated in Building Foundations
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)This paper investigates the impact of thermal interactions between heat exchangers integrated within building foundation piles to meet space heating and cooling needs of buildings. Specifically, a three-dimensional transient ... -
Optimal Control Strategies for Switchable Roof Insulation Systems Applied to US Residential Buildings
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Switchable building envelope systems, including passive and active systems, have recently seen an increase interest in the literature. Unlike static insulation, switchable insulation systems (SISs) have the ability to ... -
Packaging Environmental Sensors for Monitoring Urban-Microclimates
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)An internet-of-things (IoT)-based low-cost sensor network can be used to collect the data necessary to study both Urban Heat Island (UHI) and air pollution. There are several key challenges associated with an IoT-based ...