CBERD

Publications and Conference Proceedings

2018

Pang, Xiufeng, Carlos Duarte, Philip Haves. “Testing of Model Predictive Control Applied to a Radiant Slab Cooling System in a Building Test Facility.” Energy and Buildings. Vol. 172, pp 432-44. 1 August. 2018.

2017

Doctor-Pingel, Mona, Hugo Lavocat, Nehaa Bhavaraju. “Performance of Naturally Ventilated Buildings in a Warm-humid Climate: a Case Study of Golconde Dormitories, South India.” Architectural Science Review. Volume 60. Issue 3: Special Issue: Running Buildings on Natural Energy: Design thinking for a Different Future. 3 April. 2017.
Garg, A., J. Maheshwari, P.R. Shukla, R. Rawal. "Energy Appliance Transformation in Commercial Buildings in India under Alternate Policy Scenarios." Energy. Vol. 140, pp 952-965. 2017.
Garg, Vishal, Philip Haves, Aviruch Bhatia, Reshma Singh. "Developing an Early Stage Design Tool." Building Simulation 2017. San Francisco. August. 2017.
Khan, Yasin, Mahabir Bhandari, Jyotirmay Mathur. "Energy Savings Potential of Radiant Cooling Systems in Different Climate Zones of India." ASHRAE Journal: Science and Technology for the Built Environment. March. 2017.
Khan, Yasin, Jyotirmay Mathur, Mahabir Bhandari, Vivek Kumar and Prateek Srivastava. "Development of Heat Transfer Model for Ceiling Radiant Cooling Panel through Combined Experimental and Simulation." ASHRAE Winter Conference. Las Vegas. January. 2017.
Kohler, Christian, Yash Shukla, Rajan Rawal. "Calculating the Effect of External Shading on the Solar Heat Gain Coefficient of Windows.” Building Simulation 2017. San Francisco. August. 2017.
Manu, Sanyogita, Gail Brager. “Performance Evaluation of Climate Responsive Buildings in India: Two Case Studies from Hot-dry and Composite Climate Zones.” 2017 Passive Low Energy Architecture (PLEA) Conference. Edinburgh. 3-5 July. 2017.
Mathur, Anuj, Priyam, Sanjay Mathur, G.D. Agrawal, Jyotirmay Mathur. “Comparative Study of Straight and Spiral Earth Air Tunnel Heat Exchanger System Operated in Cooling and Heating Modes.” Renewable Energy. 1 March. 2017.
Mathur, Jyotirmay, Mahabir Bhandari, Vivek Kumar, Yasin Khan, Prateek Srivastava. "Development of Heat Transfer Model for Ceiling Radiant Cooling Panels through a Combined Experimental and Simulation Study." 2017 ASHRAE Conference. Long Beach, CA. 24-28 June. 2017.
Parker, A., S. Jegi, Baptiste Ravache, Vishal Garg, Philip Haves. "Development of Automated Procedures to Generate Reference Building Models for ASHRAE Standard 90.1 and India's Building Energy Code and Implementation in OpenStudio." Building Simulation 2017. San Francisco. August. 2017.
Reddy, Raghunath, Vikram Pudi, Vishal Garg. “Classification Using Regression Coefficient for Plug Load Identification.” Association for Computing Machinery. 2017.
Singh, Reshma, Paul Mathew, Jessica Granderson, Yash Shukla, Amiya Ranjan. "Packaged Scalable Energy Information Systems for Hotels.” Journal for Facilities Management. Vol. 16 Issue: 2, pp.119-141. 28 June. 2017.
Srivastava, Prateek, Yasin Khan, Jyotirmay Mathur, Mahabir Bhandari. "Analysis of Radiant Cooling System Integrated with Cooling Tower for Composite Climatic Conditions." Building Simulation 2017. San Francisco. August. 2017.

2016

Arumugam, Rathish, Sasank B., Rajappa T., Vishal Garg, Niranjan Reddy, and Ronnen Levinson. “Office-like Test Chambers to Measure Cool Roof Energy Savings in Four Indian Climates.” 2016 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings. 21-26 August. 2016.
Arumugum, Rathish, Vishal Garg, Niranjan Reddy, Hema Rallapalli, Ronnen Levinson, B. Sasank, N. Vinay, T. Rajappa. “Design of Cool Roof Evaluation Apparata.” 4th International Conference on Countermeasures to Urban Heat Island. 2016.
Bhatia Aviruch, T.V. S. Nikhil, Vishal Garg, Philip Haves. “eDOT - An Early Stage Design Decision Tool for Building Energy Efficiency.” ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings. 2016.
Brager, Gail, Jared Landsman. “Performance, Prediction and Optimization of Night Ventilation across Different Climates.” Passive Low Energy Architecture (PLEA) Conference. pp 1298-1304. July. 2016.
Doctor-Pingel, Mona, Hugo Lavocat, Akash Puthuparambil, and Vijai Krishnaraj. “Performance of Naturally Ventilated Buildings in Warm-Humid Climate – A case study of Golconde Dormitories, Pondicherry, S. India.” Passive Low Energy Architecture (PLEA) Conference. pp 1688-1694. July. 2016.
Garg, A., J. Maheshwari, P.R. Shukla. “Integrated Analysis of GRB Simulation Model.” Applied Thermal Engineering. 2016.
Garg, A., J. Maheshwari, P.R. Shukla, Rajan Rawal. “Energy appliance transformation in commercial buildings in India under alternate policy scenario.” Energy Policy. 2016.
Kumar, Sanjay, Jyotirmay Mathur, Sanjay Mathur. “Adaptive Use of Environmental Controls for Thermal Comfort in Composite Climate of India.” International Conference on IAQVEC. Incheon Sondgo, Republic of Korea. 23-26 October. 2016.
Kumar, S., J. Mathur, S. Mathur, M.K. Singh, and V. Loftness. “An Adaptive Approach to Define Thermal Comfort Zones on Psychrometric Chart for Naturally Ventilated Buildings in Composite Climate of India.” I.J. Building and Environment. Vol. 109, pp 135-153. 2016.
Kumar, S., M.K. Singh, V. Loftness, J. Mathur, and S. Mathur. “Thermal comfort assessment and characteristics of occupant's behavior in naturally ventilated buildings in composite climate of India.” I.J. Energy for Sustainable Development. Vol. 33, pp 108-121. 2016.
Manu, Sanyogita. “Opportunities and Challenges in Monitoring the Thermal Performance of Passive Buildings in India.” ACEEE Summer Study 2016. Pacific Grove, CA. 21-26 August. 2016.
Manu, Sanyogita, Rajan Rawal, and Gail Brager. “Occupant feedback in air conditioned and mixed-mode office buildings in India.” Windsor Conference: Making Comfort Relevant. April. 2016.
Manu, Sanyogita, Rajan Rawal, Gail Brager, C. Patel. “Performance Evaluation of Climate Responsive Buildings in India: Opportunities and Challenges.” ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings. Pacific Grove, CA. 21-26 August. 2016.
Manu, Sanyogita, Rajan Rawal, Gail Brager, and Chinmay Patel. “Opportunities and Challenges in Monitoring the Thermal Performance of Passive Buildings in India.” 2016 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings. 21-26 August. 2016.
Mathur, J., A. Anuj, S. Kumar, and S. Mathur. “Numerical investigation of the performance and soil temperature recovery of an EATHE system under intermittent operations.” Renewable Energy. Vol. 95, pp 510-521. 2016.

Mathur, Jyotirmay, Mahabir Bhandari, and Yasin Khan. “Energy Performance Assessment of Radiant Cooling System through Modelling and Calibration at Component Level.” ASHRAE Winter Conference. Orlando, FL. 23-27 January. 2016.

Mathur, Jyotirmay, Mahabir Bhandari, Robin Jain, Yasin Khan, and Prateek Srivastava. “Analysis of Radiant Cooling System Configurations Integrated with Cooling Tower for Different Indian Climatic Zones.” ASHRAE Annual Conference. St. Louis, MO. 25-29 June. 2016.
Rallapalli, Hema, Niranjan Reddy, Prabhakara Rao, Vishal, Garg, Jayant Sathaye, Ronnen Levinson. “Cool Roof Monitoring Experiment in a Real Building in Nagpur, India.” 4th International Conference on Countermeasures to Urban Heat Island. 2016.
Rane, Milind V, Deepa M Vedartham, Niranan Bastakoti, “Design Integration of Dedicated Outdoor Air System with Variable Refrigerant Flow Systems.” 16th International Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Conference at Purdue.11-14 July. 2016.
Rane, Milind V., Tareke T. Reda. “Novel Solution Heat Exchanger for A Two Stage Liquid Desiccant based Dehumidification System.” 13th International Conference Solar iCon. 2016.
Shen, Bo, Mahabir Bhandari, Milind Rane, Deep Mota. “Low GWP Refrigerants Modelling Study for a Room Air Conditioner Having a Microchannel Evaporator.” 16th International Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Conference at Purdue. 11-14 July. 2016.
Shukla, Yashkumar, Rajan Rawal, Nidhi Agrawal, Kaushik Biswas, Devendra Jain, and Deepraj Sarmah. “Influence of Phase Change Material on Thermal Comfort Conditions Inside Buildings in Hot and Dry Climate of India.” CLIMA 2016 - proceedings of the 12th REHVA World Congress. Volume 2. Aalborg: Aalborg University, Department of Civil Engineering. 2016.

2015

Arumugam, Rathish, Vishal Garg, V. Vinayaka Ram, Aviruch Bhatia. “Optimizing Roof Insulation for Roofs with High Albedo Coating and Radiant Barriers in India.” Journal of Building Engineering. Volume 2. Pages 52-58, ISSN 2352-7102. June. 2015.

Chuang, Frank and Francesco Borrelli. “Dynamic State and Input Aggregation.” 2015 American Control Conference (ACC). 1-3 July. 2015.

Dhaka, Shivraj, Jyotirmay Mathur, Gail Brager, and Anoop Honnekeri. "Assessment of Thermal Environmental Conditions and Quantification of Thermal Adaptation in Naturally Ventilated Buildings in Composite Climate of India." Building and Environment . Volume 86. 17-28. 2015.

Feng, Jingjuan (Dove), Frank Chuang, Francesco Borrelli, and Fred Bauman. "Model Predictive Control of Radiant Slab Systems with Evaporative Cooling Sources." Energy and Buildings. 199-210. 2015.

Garg, Vishal, Shikher Somal, Rathish Arumugam, Aviruch Bhatia. “Development for Cool Roof Calculator for India.” Energy and Buildings. ISSN 0378-7788. June 2015.

Garg, Vishal, T. S. V. Nikhil, H. Rallapalli, J. Subhash, A. Bhatia. “Surrogate City Finder - A Weather Data Tool.” 14th International Conference of the International Building Performance Simulation. 2015.

Khan, Yahsin, V.R Khare, Jyotirmay Mathur, Mahabir Bhandari. “Performance Evaluation of Radiant Cooling System Integrated with Air System under Different Operational Strategies.” Energy and Buildings. June. 2015.

Khare, Vaibhav, Anuj Mathur, Jyotirmay Mathur and Mahabir Bhandari. “Development of Personalized Radiant Cooling System for an Office Room.” 14th Conference of International Building Performance Simulation Association (BS15). Hyderabad, India. 7-9 December. 2015.

Mathur, A., A. Srivastava, G. D. Agrawal, S. Mathur, J. Mathur. “CFD Analysis of EATHE System under Transient Conditions for Intermittent Operation.” Energy and Buildings. Volume 87. 2015.

Mathur, A., A. Srivastava, A. Mathur, J. Mathur, G. D. Agrawal. “Transient Effect of Soil Thermal Diffusivity on Performance of EATHE system.” Energy Reports. Volume 1. 2015.

Mathur, A., A. K. Surana, P. Verma, S. Mathur, G. D. Agrawal, J. Mathur. “Investigation of Soil Thermal Saturation and Recovery under Intermittent and Continuous Operation of EATHE.” Energy ad Buildings. Volume 109. 2015.

Rane, Milind V., Darren I Pinto, Deepa M Vedartham. “Energy Conservation using Dedicated Outdoor Air Systems.” International Conference on Advances in Energy Research. IIT Bombay, India. 15-17 December. 2015.

Rawal, Rajan, C. Patel, Agam Shah. “Impact of Movable External Shading Systems on Daylight Availability of Office Building in Hot and Dry Climate of India.” 31st International PLEA Conference. Bologna, Italy. 2015.

Reddy, Raghunath, Vishal Garg, and K Niranjan. “Plug Load Identification in Educational Buildings Using Machine Learning Algorithms.” In 14th International Conference of the Building Performance Simulation Association. 7-9 December. 2015.

Shaw, Agam, Hema Mulchandani, Rajan Rawl, Charlie Curcija. "Daylight Performance Evaluation of Laser Cut Panels in Office Buildings - A Case of Indian Cities." 14th Conference of International Building Performance Simulation Association. Hyderabad, India. 7-9 Dec. 2015.
Shanker, H., M. Tibrewala, S.C. Shekar, A. Garg, J. Maheshwari. “Simulating a Connected Micro-Smart Grid.” International Conference “India Smart Grid Week-2015.” Bangalore, India. 2015.

Sharma, Anuj, Jyotirmay Mathur and Mahabir Bhandari. “Performance Evaluation of Ceiling Radiant Cooling System in Composite Climate.” 14th Conference of International Building Performance Simulation Association (BS15). Hyderabad, India. 7-9 December. 2015.

2014

Bhatia, A., Vishal Garg, R. Reddy. “Design of Fault Detection and Diagnostics Lab for HVAC System.” 2nd Asia Conference of International Building Performance Simulation Association. Nagoya, Japan. November. 2014.

Chavan, Shreyas A., Milind V. Rane. “Indirect Evaporative Precooling of Fresh Air Using Heat Exchangers with Enhanced Flow Passages.” 2014.

Chuang, Frank, and Francesco Borrelli. "Optimality of Certainty Equivalence in Expected Value Problems for Uncertain Linear Systems." IEEE CDC. Los Angeles. December. 2014.

Doctor-Pingel, Mona, Rajan Rawal, Anna Bakhlina, Vijai Krishnaraj, and Phillippe Bourdon. “Evaluating the Performance of Naturally Ventilated Brick and Lime Domes and Vaults in Warm-humid Climate in South India.” PLEA (Passive Low Energy Architecture) Conference. Ahmedabad. December. 2014.

Garg, Vishal, Shikher Somal, Rathish Arumugam, and Aviruch Bhatia. "Cool Roof Calculator." Third Int. Conf. on Countermeasures to Urban Heat Island. 2014.

Garg, Vishal, Abhishek Mittal, Rounak Patni, Rathish Arumugam, Aviruch Bhatia, Phil Haves. “WinOpt – An Early Stage Design Tool for Optimizing Window Parameters.” 30th International Passive and Low Energy (PLEA) Conference. Ahmedabad, India. December. 2014.

Garg, Vishal, H. Rallapalli. “Survey for the Development of an Early Design Tool for Architects.” 2nd Asia Conference of International Building Performance Simulation Association. Nagoya, Japan. November. 2014.

Gupta, H., S. Sharma, S. Mathur, Jyotirmay Mathur. “Comparison of Different Type of Configurations for Photovoltaic Façade in Composite Climatic Zone of India (New Delhi).” 2nd Asia Conference of International Building Performance Simulation Association. Nagoya, Japan. November. 2014.

Honnekeri, Anoop, Gail Brager, Sanyogita Manu, Rajan Rawal. “Occupant Feedback in Energy-Conscious and ‘Business As Usual’ Buildings in India.” PLEA (Passive Low Energy Architecture) Conference. Ahmedabad. December. 2014.

Honnekeri, Anoop, Gail Brager, Shivraj Dhaka, Jyotirmay Mathur. “Comfort and Adaptation in Mixed-mode Buildings in a Hot-dry Climate.” 8th Windsor Conference: Counting the Cost of Comfort in a changing world. Windsor, UK. 10-13. April. 2014.

Loftness, Vivian, Rohini Srivastava, D. Dadia, H. Parekh, and Rajan Rawal. “The Triple Bottom Line Benefits of Climate Responsive Dynamic Facades.” PLEA 2014 International Conference on Sustainable Habitat for Developing Societies. Ahmedabad. 2014

Rai Khare, Vaibhav, Yasin Khan, Jyotirmay Mathur, and Mahabir Bhandari. “Radiant Cooling: A Case Study of Energy Savings and its Enhancement in an Office Building.” ASim2014, IBPSA Asia Conference. Nagoya, Japan. November. 2014.

Rajput, M., S. Sharma, S. Mathur, Jyotirmay Mathur. “Optimum Shading Design in Building Integrated Photovoltaic Overhang.” 2nd Asia Conference of International Building Performance Simulation Association. Nagoya, Japan. November. 2014.

Rane, M. V., S. A. Chawan. “DOAS with Evaporative Precooling of Exhaust Air Using Rotating Contacting Device.” ASHRAE Hot Climates Conference. Millennium Hotel, Doha, Qatar. 2014.

Rane, M. V., N. Singh. “Multi Utility Evaporative Cooler with Diabatic Contacting Device.” ASHRAE Hot Climates Conference. Millennium Hotel, Doha, Qatar. 2014.

Rane, M. V., S. A. Chawan. “Indirect Evaporative Precooling of Fresh Air Using Heat Exchangers with Enhanced Flow Passages.” ASHRAE Hot Climates Conference. Millennium Hotel, Doha, Qatar. 2014.

Rawal, Rajan, Keyur Vadodaria, Mona Galsar, Girish Ghatikar, Reshma Singh, and Diane Douglas. “Collaborative Research to Promote Energy Efficiency Innovation towards Significant Reduction in Buildings Energy Use in the United States and India.” Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. 2014. LBNL-6862E.

Reddy, R., Vishal Garg, K. Keesara, A. Swaroopa. “Plug Loads : Usage and Energy Consumption Analysis.” 2nd Asia Conference of International Building Performance Simulation Association. Nagoya, Japan. November. 2014.

Singh, Reshma, Shilpi Anand, Satish Kumar, Paul Mathew, Saket Sarraf, Yash Shukla. “Building Energy Benchmarking in India: an Action Plan for Advancing the State-of-the-Art.” Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. 2014. LBNL-6939E.

Tetali, Surekha, Vishal Garg, and Jyotirmay Mathur. "The Effect of Roof Insulation on Energy Consumption of Office Buildings with Cool Roofs in India." Third Int. Conf. on Countermeasures to Urban Heat Island. 2014.

2013

Basu, Chandrayee, Prateek Bansal, Girish Ghatikar. “Enabling Efficient, Responsive, and Resilient Buildings: A Collaboration between the United States and India.” IEEE Great Lakes Symposium on Smart Grid and the New Energy Economy 2012. Chicago. 2013. LBNL-6594E.

Dhaka, S., Jyotirmay Mathur, Vishal Garg. “Thermal Perception and Quantification of Thermal Adaptation in Naturally Ventilated Hostel Buildings in Composite Climate of India.” 11th REHVA World Congress and the 8th International Conference on IAQVEC. Prague, Czech Republic. 2013.

Garg, Amit, P.R Shukla, Jyoti Maheshwari, Jigeesha Upadhyay. “An Assessment of Household Electricity Load Curves and Corresponding CO2 Marginal Abatement Cost Curves for Gujarat State, India.” Elsevier Energy Policy. Volume 66, Pages 568-584. 2013.

Kumar, P., Asha Joshi, Jyotirmay Mathur. “Analysis of weather conditions of Indian cities with respect to rating conditions for HVAC equipments.” 4th International Conference on Advance in Energy Research (ICARE 2013). 2013.

Mathur, Jyotirmay, Mahabir Bhandari, Yasin Khan, Vaibhav Rai Khare. “Radiant cooling system: A case study of assessment of energy savings in an office building.” 3rd National Conference on Refrigeration and Air Conditioning (NCRAC-2013) IIT. Madras, Chennai. December. 2013.

Singh, Reshma, Jessica Granderson, Rod Mahdavi, Paul Mathew, Yash Shukla. “Guidelines for Data Center Energy Information Systems.” Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. 2013. LBNL-6935E.