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Incorporating an advanced aerosol activation parameterization into WRF-CAM5: Model evaluation and parameterization intercomparison

Yi Zhang, Athanasios Nenes, Xiuwei Zhang

Aerosol activation into cloud droplets is an important process that governs aerosol indirect effects. The advanced treatment of aerosol activation by Fountoukis and Nenes (2005) and its recent updates, collectively called the FN series, have been incorpora ...

Wiley-Blackwell2015

Novel models towards predictive control of advanced building systems and occupant comfort in buildings

Nikolaos Zarkadis

People in developed countries spend today most of their time inside buildings as part of the modern way of life. As a result, the building sector accounts for almost 40% of the total energy consumption and a big part of the energy bill goes to maintain the ...

EPFL2015

Model Predictive Control for Market-Based Demand Response Participation

Colin Neil Jones, Tomasz Tadeusz Gorecki, Faran Ahmed Qureshi

In this study, we investigate the maximum possible profit for a commercial office building participating in New York’s Day-Ahead Demand Response (DADR) program. We formulate an optimal control problem, assuming perfect knowledge of future weather, occupanc ...

2014

Control of HVAC Systems via Scenario-based Explicit MPC

Improving energy efficiency of Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems is a primary objective for the society. Model Predictive Control (MPC) techniques for HVAC systems have recently received particular attention, since they can naturally ...

2014

Release and environmental impact of silver nanoparticles and conventional organic biocides from coated wooden facades

Andrea Ulrich

This study represents for the first time a comprehensive assessment of functionality and environmental impacts of metallic silver nanoparticles (Ag-NP) compared to conventional organic biocides. Four different transparent, hydrophobic coatings of wooden ou ...

Elsevier2014

A Large Eddy Simulation to determine the effect of trees on wind and turbulence over a suburban surface

Marc Parlange, Marco Giovanni Giometto, Andreas Christen

A proper modeling of flow and turbulence within and over urban canopies is key to properly predict air pollution and dispersion in cities. Trees are an integral part of the urban landscape. In many suburban neighborhoods, tree cover is 10 to 30% and trees ...

2014

Consumer Segmentation and Knowledge Extraction from Smart Meter and Survey Data

Karl Aberer, Dipanjan Chakraborty, Tri Kurniawan Wijaya

Many electricity suppliers around the world are deploying smart meters to gather fine-grained spatiotemporal consumption data and to effectively manage the collective demand of their consumer base. In this paper, we introduce a structured framework and a d ...

2014

Implementation of a Scenario-based MPC for HVAC Systems: an Experimental Case Study

Maurizio Molinari, Luca Fabietti

Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems play a fundamental role in maintaining acceptable thermal comfort and air quality levels. Model Predictive Control (MPC) techniques are known to bring significant energy savings potential. Developing ...

2014

Pose Estimation of Web-Shared Landscape Pictures

Devis Tuia, François Golay, Vincent Lepetit, Timothée Produit

We propose a robust method for registering high oblique images of landscapes. Typically, an input image can be registered by matching it against a set of registered images of the same location. While this has been shown to work very well for images of popu ...

2014

Momentum balance of katabatic flow on steep slopes covered with short vegetation

Marc Parlange, Gabriel George Katul, Holly Jayne Oldroyd, Eric Richard Pardyjak

Katabatic flows over alpine mountainous terrain differ from their forested or bare slope counterparts due to the presence of well-ventilated, short vegetation. The impact of a grass canopy and larger-scale pressure perturbations on the one-dimensional mean ...

American Geophysical Union2014

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