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Yang Hu

Ph.D. Candidate
Center For Building Performance and Diagnostics
Carnegie Mellon University
CBPD MMCH415
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Phone: 412-641-9689, Email: yangh@andrew.cmu.edu

Research Interests:

Solar Thermal Applications in commercial/residential buildings; Building Retro-Commissioning; Building Energy Modeling; Building energy modeling in Energyplus, Trnsys; Energy System Exergy/Advanced Exergy Analyses for the efficiency improvement; Carbon Dioxide (CO2) Recycle/Reuse as a natural refrigerant.

Research and Projects:

- Retro-Commissioning for Intelligent Workplace Advanced Lighting/Thermal/Ventilation Control;

- Retro-Commissioning for Pittsburgh Children's Community Pediatrics Office;

- Develop CO2 as refrigerant study for CO2 condensing in a vertical tube;

- Conduct Children’s Community Pediatrics Office Environment Study;

- Conduct Hazelwood brownfield revitalization study in terms of district energy system;

- Assist in US Army Battalion Headquarters Energy Conservation Study.

Publications:

- Yang Hu, Laura Schaefer, Detailed Energy and Exergy Analysis for Lithium Bromide Absorption Chiller and a Conventional Electric Chiller (R134a), Proceedings of the ASME 2011 International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition, IMECE2011, Denver

- Yang Hu, Laura Schaefer, Volker Hartkopf, Life Cycle Energy and Exergy Analysis for Building Cooling Systems - A Comparison Between Solar Driven Absorption Chiller and Electric Driven Chiller, Proceedings of ASME 2011 5th International Conference on Energy Sustainability & 9th Fuel Cell Science, Engineering and Technology Conference, Washington DC, August 7-10, 2011

- Yang Hu, Laura Schaefer, Volker Hartkopf, Energy and Exergy Analysis of Integrating compound parabolic collectors (CPC) with Lithium Bromide(Li-Br) Absorption Chiller for Building Heating and Cooling to Achieve Net Zero Buildings. ASHRAE 2011 Annual Conference, Montreal, Quebec Canada, June 25-29, 2011

- Iyabo Lawal, David H Archer, Yang Hu, Transcritical CO₂ for air conditioning with ground source exchange. ASHRAE 2011 Annual Conference, Montreal, Quebec Canada, June 25-29, 2011

- Yang Hu, Laura Schaefer, Volker Hartkopf, Energy and Exergy Analysis of Double Effect ( Parallel and Series Flow) Absorption Chiller Systems. 10th IEA Heat Pump Conference, 16-19 May 2011, Tokyo, Japan (accepted, conference withheld due to earthquake)

- Yang Hu, David H Archer, Steady State Heat Transfer Models of CO2 Condensing In a Vertical U-Tube, Proceedings of the ASME 2010 International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition, IMECE2010, November 12-18, 2010, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

- Bing Dong, Yuebin Yu, Yang Hu, Simulation-based Hybrid Ventilation System Design and Evaluation, 1st International High Performance Buildings Conference, Purdue, 2010

- Yang Hu, David Archer, Hongxi Yin, Design and Model Based Performance Analysis of a District Energy Supply System, Proceedings of ES2009, Energy Sustainability 2009

- Yang Hu, Ying Hu, Energy Saving Estimate of The Solar Water Heating Systems Application, Green Architecture and Building Technology, China Architecture and Building Press, 2006