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Duncan, Scott

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Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering
The Daniel Guggenheim School of Aeronautics was established in 1931, with a name change in 1962 to the School of Aerospace Engineering
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    Sustainability and Resiliency in Airport Energy Infrastructure: A Multidisciplinary Methodology for Optimizing Building Operations
    (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2025-01) Kimanya, Humfrey ; Murugesan, Devesh ; Duncan, Scott ; Mavris, Dimitri N.
    There is a striking di!erence in the domain of environmental consciousness: a large amount of greenhouse gases is produced by commercial buildings compared to what is commonly perceived in the transportation sector. The International Panel on Climate Change has labeled buildings as the third largest contributor of greenhouse emissions with at least 17.5%, whereas the aviation industry merely contributes 2%. Hence, there is an urgent need to decarbonize buildings to enhance sustainability, a sound path towards mitigating e!ects of climate change. Moreover, continued power supply to critical buildings such as hospitals and airports, is important to ensure life safety of their users. Power outages in such buildings disrupt operations resulting to substantial financial losses. For instance, the 2017 outage at the Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta Airport in the United States demonstrated the result — a 11-hour period without power which brought Delta airlines about $50M estimated in loss. From a system-of-systems perspective, this paper investigates decarbonizing of buildings and infrastructure by considering aspects of sustainability, resiliency, and a!ordability. A detailed account of scenarios involving power outages, building HVAC systems and the demand of electric vehicles is balanced against the amount of power from the main grid and distributed energy resources including photovoltaics,storage systems and power generators. The aim of this study is to provide a financially optimum combination of grid energy and DERs (Distributed Energy Resources). As such, this study utilizes a proposed methodology that employs use of multi-variate regression models to integrate a building HVAC system modeled using Simcenter Amesim in a representative thermal envelope with an optimization tool developed by the US National Renewable Energy Laboratory. These modeling tools are used to create a parametric and interactive tool that assists stakeholders in assessing tradeo!s for building energy sourcing to meet power demands even during power outages and assess its impacts financially and environmentally.
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    Environmentally Conscious Design & Manufacturing Group: Research Overview to SRL
    (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2005-07-26) Bradley, Bert ; Duncan, Scott ; Muir, Michael Christopher ; Reap, John J. ; Roman, Felipe ; Bras, Berdinus A.
    Researchers in the ECDM program will develop methodologies and decision support tools that integrate the best business practices with those that produce superior environmental and social performance. Our research products will enable corporations to recognize, pursue and embrace triple bottom line goals