Search

Author:

Witmer, Lucas Turner

Title:

The Impact of Solar Radiation on the Heating and Cooling of Buildings

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Solar
Building
Energy
Modeling
Solar Energy
Radiation
Irradiance
Irradiation
Energy Modeling
Thermal Comfort

File:

Download Witmer_Lucas-2014-Dissertation.pdfDownload Conditional_Probability_Distributions.gifDownload LucasWitmerPhdDefenseSlides.pdf

Committee Members:

Jeffrey Brownson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Seth Adam Blumsack, Committee Member
Mort D Webster, Committee Member
Stephen James Treado, Committee Member

Author:

Bayrakci Boz, Mesude

Title:

GEOSPATIAL ANALYSES FOR SOLAR ENERGY: IMPACTS OF PV PENETRATION ON ENERGY DEMAND AND PRICE

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Solar
Photovoltaics
GIS
Geospatial
Energy Demand
Solar Assesment
PV Penetration
Locational Marginal Prices
Copula
SUR

File:

Download BayrakciBoz_Mesude_PhD_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Jeffrey Brownson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jeffrey Brownson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Seth Adam Blumsack, Committee Member
Mort D Webster, Committee Member
Susan W Stewart, Outside Member

Author:

Srikrishnan, Vivek Anand

Title:

Markov-Switching Models for Probabilistic Solar Resource Assessment and Forecasting

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Solar resource assessment
solar forecasting
Bayesian statistics
Markov-switching models
probabilistic modeling

File:

Download Srikrishnan-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Jeffrey Brownson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jeffrey Brownson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
George Spencer Young, Committee Member
Mort D Webster, Committee Member
Vinayak V Shanbhag, Outside Member

Author:

Li, Daiwei

Title:

To Invest or Not to Invest: The Exploration of Preferred Investment Strategies in Corporate Renewable Power Purchase Agreements

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Multi-Objective Optimization Problem
Single-Objective Optimization Problem
Real Option Valuation
Power Purchase Agreement
Greenhouse Gas Emission
Wholesale Electricity Price
Binomial Lattice Pricing Method
Unit Commitment
Monte Carlo Simulation
Single-Objective Optimization Problem
Real Option Valuation
Power Purchase Agreement
Greenhouse Gas Emission
Wholesale Electricity Price
Binomial Lattice Pricing Method
Unit Commitment
Monte Carlo Simulation

File:

Download Daiwei_Li_Thesis_Final_0322.pdf

Committee Members:

Seth Adam Blumsack, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jeffrey Brownson, Committee Member
Zhen Lei, Committee Member
Mort D Webster, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Isaac-Onwah, Uzoezi

Title:

Risk Preference Amongst Undergraduate Engineering Students - The Effects of Time Pressure, Optimism, Sleep and Available Information

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Risk
Risk aversion
Decision Making
Engineering Decision Making
Risk Seeking
Risk Preference
Time Pressure
Optimism

File:

Download Uzoezi_-_Thesis_.pdf

Committee Members:

Jeremy Michael Gernand, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mort D Webster, Program Head/Chair
Gregory R King, Committee Member
Jeffrey Brownson, Committee Member

Author:

Soares, Paulo

Title:

Measures and Values of Light: Changing the Energy Field and Adapting to Climates Changed

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Solar irradiance
Direct normal irradiance
multypiranometer array
Machine learning
Solar Radiometric Systems
GIS
LiDAR
3D view
low-resolution LiDAR
rooftop segmentation
photovoltaic systems
site suitability
GIS
LiDAR
rooftop segmentation
photovoltaic systems
site suitability
agrivoltaics
climate change
multi-objective decision-making
trade space exploration
Light
TMY
NSRDB
PV Generation

File:

Download Paulo_Soares_Penn_State_University_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Jeffrey Brownson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jeffrey Brownson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Seth Adam Blumsack, Committee Member
Susan W Stewart, Committee Member
Jeffrey M Catchmark, Outside Member
Mort D Webster, Program Head/Chair