Please join the Philadelphia ASHRAE Chapter for our November meeting, which is Research Promotion Night, featuring recognization of our corproate and individual supporters followed by two presentations by Dr. Jin Wen of Drexel University and Phil Bartholomew, PE of Miller-Remick. 

Presentations

Presentation 1 by Dr. Jin Wen: In the US, 41% of the primary energy is consumed by buildings.  Buildings also account for 74% of the total electricity consumption in the US.  Significant improvements have been achieved in increasing building envelope and heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) component efficiency.  However, building systems, as a whole, are still rather inefficient. Despite the substantial achievements in low-cost sensing, computation, and big data analysis technologies that have been widely adopted in other disciplines, advanced building control, operation, and analytics solutions have encountered many barriers to entry in the building market.  Moreover, it is well-recognized that modern buildings are often operated without a good interaction with its occupants, whom a building should serve for.  This lack of good interaction results in a poor occupant satisfaction on the built environment. In this presentation, challenges and opportunities exist in improving building energy efficiency and building-human interactions through advanced operation and building data analytics are discussed.  Several projects that attempt to improve building energy efficiency, building-grid integration, and building-human interactions through advanced building control, analysis, and fault diagnosis technology development are presented.

Presentation 2 by Phil Bartholomew - Hospital operating room HVAC systems require high quantities of circulated air to meet ASHRAE Standard 170 and the non-aspirating flow requirements of the operating room. The typical HVAC system is highly ineffective, in terms of energy use, at maintaining the desirable temperature and humidity conditions in the space. Mr. Bartholomew will discuss his 2015 ASHRAE Article of the Year that demonstrates that a version of a dual duct HVAC system will save considerable amounts of operation energy compared to the standard system.

Speakers

Dr. Jin Wen is a Professor in the Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering at Drexel University. She is actively involved with teaching and research in the building energy efficiency and indoor air quality areas.  She has served as the principle investigator on various building energy efficiency and indoor air quality research and/or educational projects funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, the National Institute of Standard Technology, the National Science Foundation, the Department of Homeland Security, the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE), and Philadelphia Housing Authority.  She has also worked as a control engineer for the Johnson Control Inc before she joined Drexel University.  Dr. Wen is currently the Research Subcommittee Chair for Smart Building Systems Technical Committee (TC 7.5) in ASHRAE. 

Philip Bartholomew, PE, LEED AP has been practicing mechanical engineering for 39 years and has been a Sr. Mechanical Engineer at Miller Remick for the last 3 years.For the last 7 years he has worked primarily on the health care projects. Before that, he specialized in designing biological high containment and research facilities.He has written two articles for the ASHRAE Journal, Labs 21 as well other periodicals such as Consulting Specifying Engineer.Also, he has presented at four Labs 21 yearly conferences, ISPE, EPA and higher education institutions.

Tickets

$40.00 Non-Member

$40.00 Society Member

$30.00 Chapter Member

$25.00 YEA Member

$10.00 Student Member

$0.00 Life Member