Smart building systems and methods
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1. A method to fabricate a building structure, comprising:
- a. mixing a texture aggregate filler mixed with a phase change material (PCM), said filler being selected from the group consisting of perlite, glass microballoons, glass bubbles, phenolic microballoons, and phenolic microspheres;
b. placing the PCM with the filler on a surface of the building structure exposed to a conditioned air flow and shaped to increase thermal contact between the PCM and the conditioned air flow; and
c. placing elongated, open-ended, hollow PCM structures onto the surface, wherein the elongated, open-ended, hollow PCM structures are formed by first performing an extruding process to form scaffolds that have a predetermined hollow cross-sectional shape, and then coating the scaffolds with a PCM such that the PCM coats an inner and outer surface of the scaffold.
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Abstract
An appliance includes a memory storage location storing a flag indicative of a predicted demand-response (DR) period such as from a utility or when a current alternating current (AC) duty cycle differs from a specified AC duty cycle by a predetermined variance; and a controller coupled to the flag to autonomously place the appliance in an energy shedding mode during the predicted DR period.
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1. A method to fabricate a building structure, comprising:
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a. mixing a texture aggregate filler mixed with a phase change material (PCM), said filler being selected from the group consisting of perlite, glass microballoons, glass bubbles, phenolic microballoons, and phenolic microspheres; b. placing the PCM with the filler on a surface of the building structure exposed to a conditioned air flow and shaped to increase thermal contact between the PCM and the conditioned air flow; and c. placing elongated, open-ended, hollow PCM structures onto the surface, wherein the elongated, open-ended, hollow PCM structures are formed by first performing an extruding process to form scaffolds that have a predetermined hollow cross-sectional shape, and then coating the scaffolds with a PCM such that the PCM coats an inner and outer surface of the scaffold. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A method to fabricate a building structure, comprising:
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a. mixing a phase change material (PCM) with a texture aggregate filler, said filler being selected from the group consisting of perlite, glass microballoons, glass bubbles, phenolic microballoons, and phenolic microspheres; b. spraying or rolling the aggregate filler PCM on a surface of the building structure exposed to a conditioned air flow; and c. placing elongated, open-ended, hollow PCM structures onto the surface, wherein the elongated, open-ended, hollow PCM structures are formed by first performing an extruding process to form scaffolds that have a predetermined hollow cross-sectional shape, and then coating the scaffolds with a PCM such that the PCM coats an inner and outer surface of the scaffold. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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