Using the MIT Campus as a Testbed for Education and Research in Sustainability

1. Using the MIT Campus as a Testbed for
Education and Research in Sustainability
Prof. Leon R. Glicksman
Building Technology Group
MIT
September 16, 2016
World Symposium on Sustainable Development at
Universities

2. Some Early Research

3. A More Recent MIT Solar House

4. Undergraduate Research Using the MIT
Campus
•UROP: Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program
•Undergraduate thesis
•Design Projects for Class

5. MIT Building 18 at 5PM Steve Amanti

6. 2AM

7. Fume Hoods in Building 18
Heat
or Cool
Intake fan
Outside air
Exhaust fan Vented air
Dan Wesolowski, Elsa Olivetti

8. Energy Lost by 1 hood open 24/7 =
Energy to heat 1 single family home in Boston

9. Average Sash Position
0
0.1
0.2
0.3
0.4
0.5
0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1
% Open
%oftotalTime
Before intervention
Current
Dan Wesolowski, Elsa Olivetti

10. Energy Efficient Ventilation Design for New Cancer Research
Facility

14. Johnson Ice Rink
Cat Thu Nguyen Huu
Marisa Simmons
Temperature gradient and emissivity with IR camera

15. Recommendations
• Low ε ceilings
• Reduce ice rink heat gain in ice
from 165 kW to 8kW
• Reduce chiller need from 328
kW to 171 kW
Cost: $30,000
Paid off in 2 months

26. PhD Research Using the Campus as a Testbed

27. Steve Ray: Air Flow in Media Lab Atrium

28. Experimentally characterized full-scale
buoyancy driven N.V.
Full Scale

29. Atrium measurements: Temperatures,
flowrates, pathlines, local velocities
Taken before experiment
Full Scale

30. 6 kW heat provided from light bulbs
Full Scale

31. Expected plume over heat source
Full Scale

32. No plume formed over heat source because
of reverse flow
Full Scale
Faulty instruments

33. CFD validated at full scale
Full Scale

34. First use of full scale in-situ PIV with neutrally-
buoyant bubbles for Airflow visualization
Full Scale

35. Unsteadiness near heaters captured in CFD
time
Full Scale

36. CFD predicts temperatures very close to in-
situ PIV measurements
Experimentally
measured
range
Full Scale

37. Stephen Samouhos PhD 2010
•Automated Fault Detection
•5 Most Important Faults

38. (Not So) Big Data in
Commercial Buildings
• Data collected by control system
• Operator concerned about tenant satisfaction
key feedback
• Academic studies on fault detection and identification
• Try a simpler approach

41. Stephen Samouhos PhD 2010
Automated Fault Detection Found
Simultaneous Heating and Cooling in air handler

43. Dashboards
@MIT
Campus Dashboard view
Kiosk compatible
Current energy data and baselines

44. Clockworks Performance Management
Software
Information/Scale Portfolio Building System/Equipment
Dashboards
Metrics
- Costs
- Energy
- Comfort…
Analytics
- Energy analytics
- Fault Diagnostics
Tools
- Project tracking
- Visualization
- Field and process
integration
Energy spending
Construction spending
Energy procurement