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Kirk H. Drees is affiliated with Johnson Controls in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Engineering and Medicine, with a concentration on Building and Construction, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, and Control and Systems Engineering. This interdisciplinary focus underpins work that combines building system optimization and health-related aspects of indoor environments.

The scientist's main topics of study include:

  • Building Energy and Comfort Optimization
  • Infection Control and Ventilation
  • Indoor Air Quality and Microbial Exposure
  • Advanced Control Systems Optimization
  • Process Optimization and Integration
  • Smart Grid Energy Management
  • Energy Efficiency and Management

Their recent published papers illustrate a focus on the intersection of HVAC systems, energy consumption, and airborne disease transmission risk:

  • Building HVAC control with reinforcement learning for reduction of energy cost and demand charge (2021, Energy and Buildings)
  • Modeling and multiobjective optimization of indoor airborne disease transmission risk and associated energy consumption for building HVAC systems (2021, Energy and Buildings)
  • Quantifying the tradeoff between energy consumption and the risk of airborne disease transmission for building HVAC systems (2021, Science and Technology for the Built Environment)
  • Quantifying the Tradeoff Between Energy Consumption and the Risk of Airborne Disease Transmission for Building HVAC Systems (2021, bioRxiv [Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory])
  • Assessment of Airborne Disease Transmission Risk and Energy Impact of HVAC Mitigation Strategies (2021, bioRxiv [Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory])

Kirk H. Drees frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Energy and Buildings
  • Science and Technology for the Built Environment
  • Journal of Process Control
  • Computers & Chemical Engineering

The scientist has collaborated extensively with several coauthors, including:

  • Michael J. Risbeck
  • Zhanhong Jiang
  • Young Moo Lee
  • Martin Z. Bazant
  • Jonathan D. Douglas

Best Publications

  • Smart building manager

    Clay G. Nesler;Kirk H. Drees;James P. Kummer;Derek Supple

  • Automated fault detection and diagnostics in a building management system

    Kirk H. Drees;James P. Kummer

  • Systems and methods for detecting changes in energy usage in a building

    Kirk H. Drees;Michael J. Wenzel

  • Building management system with fault analysis

    Kirk H. Drees

  • Systems and methods for statistical control and fault detection in a building management system

    Kirk H. Drees;James P. Kummer

  • Systems and methods for using rule-based fault detection in a building management system

    Kirk H. Drees;Andrew J. Boettcher;James P. Kummer

  • Real time price setting controller of energy accumulation medium

    Kirk H Drees;エイチ. ドリース カーク

  • Asynchronous distributed-object building automation system with support for synchronous object execution

    Kirk H. Drees;Jeffrey J. Gloudeman;Donald A. Gottschalk;David E. Rasmussen

  • Systems and methods for measuring and verifying energy savings in buildings

    Kirk H. Drees;Michael J. Wenzel

  • Building HVAC control with reinforcement learning for reduction of energy cost and demand charge

    Zhanhong Jiang;Michael J. Risbeck;Vish Ramamurti;Sugumar Murugesan

  • State machine controller for operating variable air volume terminal units of an environmental control system

    Alex Bernaden;Gaylon M. Decious;John E. Seem;Kirk H. Drees

  • High level central plant optimization

    Michael J. Wenzel;Robert D. Turney;Kirk H. Drees;Matthew J. Asmus

  • Systems and methods for measuring and verifying energy usage in a building

    Kirk H. Drees;James P. Kummer;Michael J. Wenzel

  • Frequency response optimization based on a change in battery state-of-charge during a frequency response period

    Michael J. Wenzel;Kirk H. Drees;Mohammad N. ElBsat

  • Method of programming and executing object-oriented state machine logic in a controller

    Alex Bernaden;Gaylon M. Decious;John E. Seem;Kirk H. Drees

  • Devices for receiving and using energy from a building environment

    Scott T. Holland;Thomas J. Menden;Matthew J. Asmus;Kirk H. Drees

  • Development and Evaluation of a Rule-Based Control Strategy for Ice Storage Systems

    Kirk H. Drees;James E. Braun

  • UNITA' DI CONTROLLO A RETROAZIONE DI TIPO PERFEZIONATO

    Drees Kirk H;Ben-Aissa Nebil;Seem John E

  • Building management system with electrical energy storage optimization based on benefits and costs of participating in PBDR and IBDR programs

    Kirk H. Drees;Michael J. Wenzel;Robert D. Turney

  • Building management system with electrical energy storage optimization based on statistical estimates of ibdr event probabilities

    Kirk H. Drees;Michael J. Wenzel;Robert D. Turney

Frequent Co-Authors

Victor M. Zavala
Victor M. Zavala University of Wisconsin–Madison
John E. Seem
John E. Seem Johnson Controls (United States)
James E. Braun
James E. Braun Purdue University West Lafayette

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