This is a presentation I gave for the 1st year Sustainable Energy Technology students at a SET mini-symposium at the Eindhoven University of technology TU/e.

1. SET Mini-Symposium“Graduating in SET”Sustainable Energy in The Built EnvironmentUnit Building, Physics & Systems (BPS) Jeroen van Hellenberg Hubar, BEng June 14, 2011

2. Outline Research group Internship & Graduation Advice / Building Physics & Systems PAGE 1 13-6-2011

4. is where we spend ~90% of our time (i.e indoors)

5. combines a complex system of requirements/ Building Physics & Systems PAGE 2 13-6-2011

6. Unit Building Physics and Systems / Physics of the Built Environment PAGE 3 13-6-2011 Building Performance Building Performance prof.dr.ir. J.L.M.(Jan) Hensen j.hensen@tue.nl Design +operation Building Physics Building Acoustics research life-cycle energy education Building Materials Building Lighting Sustainable high quality (indoor) environment Building Performance comfort, health, productivity Building Services thermal, acoustic,air quality, lighting

7. Internship How did I obtained my internship Chose specialization Visit website prof. Hensen www.bwk.tue.nl/bps/hensen/ Arranged meeting with prof. Hensen Had a meeting with PhD student within the research group / Physics of the Built Environment PAGE 4 13-6-2011

8. Internship Some topics available for internship / graduation Can the EPN or BREEAM methods be used for design support? Optimizing the control of Dutch dwellings for thermal comfort in summer Design of sustainble power stations The cradle-to-cradle building of 2050 Performance prediction of phase change materials in building constructions Intelligent Buildings Erasmus - Praag: Comparison of methods for solar system heat gains calculation Electrical energy balance analysis for a disaster relief station / Physics of the Built Environment PAGE 5 13-6-2011

9. Electrical and thermal energy balance analysis for an off-grid campground site June 14, 2011 Supervisors Prof. dr. ir. J.L.M. Hensen Dr. dipl.-ing M. Trcka B. Lee MSc Jeroen van Hellenberg Hubar, BEng Graduation progress Feb 2011 Dec 2011

11. Initial study on campgrounds, renewable energy and energy storage

13. Graduation / Physics of the Built Environment PAGE 9 13-6-2011 Research question “How to develop a design concept which ensures the comfort of the occupants, and has an optimized (system) performance of an energy system with 100% renewable micro-generation technologies which has to satisfy the electrical and thermal energy demand, for an off-grid campground at Texel, in the Netherlands?”

14. Graduation / Physics of the Built Environment PAGE 10 13-6-2011 Methodology

15. Graduation / Physics of the Built Environment PAGE 11 13-6-2011 Methodology Multi-objective optimization

16. Demand Profiles / Physics of the Built Environment PAGE 12 13-6-2011 Sub question How to ensure the comfort, in terms of the availability of domestic hot water, electricity and a desirable indoor temperature for an off grid campground? Sources used; Central Bureau of Statistics of the Netherlands (CBS) Knowledge Institute for the installation technology sector (ISSO) Agency of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation (Agentschap NL) Association of water companies in the Netherlands (VEWIN)

17. Demand Profiles / Physics of the Built Environment PAGE 13 13-6-2011

18. Demand Profiles / Physics of the Built Environment PAGE 14 13-6-2011

19. SketchUp / Physics of the Built Environment PAGE 15 13-6-2011

20. TRNSYS / Physics of the Built Environment PAGE 16 13-6-2011 Model for Cabin Model for demandside TRNSYS model

21. TRNSYS Results / Physics of the Built Environment PAGE 17 13-6-2011

22. Winter (test)balance / Physics of the Built Environment PAGE 18 13-6-2011

23. Summer (test)balance / Physics of the Built Environment PAGE 19 13-6-2011

24. Planning Finish TRNSYS model (generation, storage, balance) Think of optimization techniques Use MODEfrontier for optimization Perform sensitivity analysis on results Do the same for 3 other campsites / Physics of the Built Environment PAGE 20 13-6-2011

25. Advice Ask your professor for some possibilities of research topics in the research group. Try to make your internship and graduation work to match. Company: start with the contractual issues on time, otherwise it can slow down your progress enormously. Research group: Make sure you have a daily PhD supervisor and not only a professor. Make sure you know the vacation schedules of your professor and other supervisors. / Physics of the Built Environment PAGE 21 13-6-2011

26. Questions / Physics of the Built Environment PAGE 22 13-6-2011