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Impacts of household water demands and water heater delivery temperatures on opportunistic premise plumbing pathogens (OPPPs) in a residential setting

February 1, 2025
Author(s)
Alshae Logan, Jumana Aljafari, Visesh Uppoor, Tania Ullah, Jennifer Dootz
Efforts aimed towards water and energy conservation within residential buildings may create enhanced conditions for Opportunistic Premise Plumbing Pathogens (OPPPs) growth. To investigate this issue, a study was conducted to assess the effect of water

A Helmholtz Energy Equation of State for 3,3,3-Trifluoroprop-1-ene (R-1243zf)

January 15, 2025
Author(s)
Ryo Akasaka, Eric Lemmon
A new fundamental equation of state expressed as a function of the Helmholtz energy is presented for 3,3,3-trifluoroprop-1-ene (R-1243zf). The equation is valid from the triple point temperature (122.35 K) to 430 K at pressures up to 35 MPa. The expected

PVDF-based Backsheet Cracking: Mapping In Situ Phase Evolution by X-ray Scattering

December 15, 2024
Author(s)
Stephanie Moffitt, Sona Ulicna, Song-Syun Jhang, Po-Chang Pan, Michael Owen-Bellini, Peter Hacke, Michael Kempe, Jared Tracy, Kaushik Choudhury, Laura Schelhas, Xiaohong Gu
One of the most common polymers in commercial photovoltaic (PV) backsheets is polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF). However, recent reports have shown the potential for PVDF-based backsheets to crack and fail prematurely. Previous work has suggested that polymer

Insights into transient photovoltage lifetimes via dark J-V analysis in perovskite solar cells

September 23, 2024
Author(s)
Ganga Neupane, John Roller, Susanna Thon, Sheng Fu, Zhaoning Song, Yanfa Yan, Behrang Hamadani
Transient photovoltage (TPV) decay measurements have commonly been used to estimate the charge carrier lifetimes in solar cell devices. However, it has recently been demonstrated that an intrinsic material property such as the effective bulk carrier

Model for the Viscosity and Thermal Conductivity of Tetrahydrofuran

August 17, 2024
Author(s)
Sofia Sotiriadou, Eleftheria Ntonti, Marc Assael, Konstantinos Antoniadis, Marcia L. Huber
We present a hybrid predictive-correlative engineering model for the calculation of the viscosity and thermal conductivity of tetrahydrofuran (THF) in the fluid phase. It incorporates critically evaluated experimental data where available, and predictive

Report on High Energy Arcing Fault Experiments - International Experimental Results from Bus Duct and Switchgear Enclosures

July 1, 2024
Author(s)
Gabriel Taylor, Anthony D. Putorti Jr., Scott Bareham, Christopher U. Brown, Wai Cheong Tam, Michael Heck, Lucy Fox, Stephen Fink, Michael Selepak, Edward Hnetkovsky, Nicholas Melly, Kenneth Hamburger, Kenneth Miller
This report documents an experimental program designed to collect data and information to evaluate the performance of models developed to estimate the electrical high energy arcing fault (HEAF) hazard. This report covers full-scale laboratory experiments

Dealloyed Pt74Ni26 and Pt26Ni74 Electrodeposited Thin Film Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Reduction

May 30, 2024
Author(s)
Carlos Hangarter, Eric Rus, Yihua Liu, Jaw Wook Shin, Vladimir Oleshko, Hyun Wook Ro, Russell Composto, Christopher Soles, Joseph A. Dura, Gery R. Stafford, Leonid Bendersky, Thomas P. Moffat
Pt100-xNix alloys are among the most active binary alloys for electrocatalysis of the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) in PEM fuel cells. Electrodeposition and microstructure of thin films close to Pt75Ni25 and Pt25Ni75 stoichiometry are described and their

Working from Home and the Impacts on Residential Buildings

March 1, 2024
Author(s)
William M. Healy, Kristen Cetin, Richard Karg, Chandra Sekhar, Li Song, Jerzy Sowa, Iain Walker, Pawel Wargocki
The COVID-19 pandemic brought about a rapid and dramatic shift in the number of people working from home. For ASHRAE, the shift to more work from home has an impact on its mission. Most notably, key metrics for performance of the built environment

The development of an augmented machine learning approach for the additive manufacturing of thermoelectric materials

February 28, 2024
Author(s)
Connor V. Headley, Roberto J. Herrera del Valle, Ji Ma, Prasanna Balachandran, Vijayabarathi Ponnambalam, Saniya LeBlanc, Dylan Kirsch, Joshua B. Martin
Through the integration of machine learning (ML) techniques alongside additive manufacturing (AM) experimentation, we demonstrate an iterative process to rapidly predict laser-material interactions and melt pool geometries throughout the build parameter

Certification of Standard Reference Material(R) 2693a Bituminous Coal (Nominal Mass Fraction 0.5 % Sulfur)

January 25, 2024
Author(s)
Thomas W. Vetter, Colleen E. Bryan Sallee, Brian Lang, Anthony F. Marlow, Jennifer Ness, Rick L. Paul, Adam L. Pintar, Bruce Scruggs, Nicholas Sharp, Maria Isabel Vega Martinez, John Sieber
Standard Reference Material (SRM) 2693a Bituminous Coal (Nominal Mass Fraction 0.5 % Sulfur) is intended for use in the evaluation of techniques employed in the determination of sulfur, mercury, chlorine, and ash in coal and materials of a similar matrix