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In Eindhoven University of Technology, the Building Physics and Systems Unit is working on topics of building physics and HVAC systems. The group, which has a number of experimental facilities, has been working for over thirty-five years on the computer simulation of the indoor climate of buildings in general and on the thermal comfort of people in particular. The group has a lot of contacts wi...

Given the climatic changes around the world and the growing outdoor sports participation, existing guidelines and recommendations for exercising in naturally challenging environments such as heat, cold or altitude, exhibit potential shortcomings. Continuous efforts from sport sciences and exercise physiology communities aim at minimizing the risks of environmental-related illnesses during outdo...

A heat pump in combination with an aquifer has high promise generating heat and cold for user comfort efficiently within buildings. To guarantee favourable annual performance of the heat pump in future, it is important that the energy supplied to the aquifer is in balance. This paper demonstrates how a multi-agent approach can be applied to preserve this balance while delivering the exact amoun...

This paper presents an energy management framework for building climate comfort systems that are interconnected in a grid via aquifer thermal energy storage (ATES) systems in the presence of two types of uncertainty, namely private and common uncertainty sources. The ATES system is considered as a seasonal storage system that can be a heat source or sink, or a storage for thermal energy. While ...