As students and faculty have developed an insatiable appetite for bandwidth, IT professionals and educational institutions are scrambling to bolster their traditional IT infrastructure to handle the increasing demand. More switches, more routers, more copper wire, and more access points – and that means higher cost, more power consumption, more strain on heating and cooling, and an ever-increas...

The work presented in this thesis focuses on reducing the energy demand of a residential building by using a coupled ground-source heat pump/energy recovery ventilation (GSHP-ERV) system to present a novel approach to space condition and domestic hot water supply for a residence. The proposed system is capable of providing hot water on-demand with a high coefficient of performance (COP), thus e...

Until the late 80's, the only constraints when designing integrated circuits (IC's) were the area and speed. The field of low power design was confined to applications such as digital wrist watches or cardiac pacemakers. In the beginning of the early 90's, this changed rapidly with the growing demand for portable electronic equipment such as cellular phones and notebook computers. However, decr...

This paper presents an optimal dispatch model of an ice storage air-conditioning system for participants to quickly and accurately perform energy saving and demand response, and to avoid the over contact with electricity price peak. The schedule planning for an ice storage air-conditioning system of demand response is mainly to transfer energy consumption from the peak load to the partial-peak ...

Evaporative cooling is able to generate the cooling medium at a temperature approaching to the ambient wet bulb temperature. In this paper, a low-energy air conditioning strategy is proposed, which is a combination of cooled ceiling (CC), microencapsulated phase change material (MPCM) slurry storage and evaporative cooling technologies. The assessment of evaporative cooling availability and uti...

Cool roof coatings have a beneficial impact on reducing the heat load of a range of building types, resulting in reduced cooling energy loads. This study seeks to understand the extent to which cool roof coatings could be used as a residential demand side management (DSM) strategy for retrofitting existing housing in a constrained network area in tropical Australia where peak electrical demand ...

Site-specific on-demand cooling of hot spots in microprocessors can reduce peak temperature and achieve a more uniform thermal profile on chip, thereby improve chip performance and increase the processor’s life time. An array of thermoelectric coolers (TECs) integrated inside an electronic package has the potential to provide such efficient cooling of hot spots on chip. This paper analyzes the ...