REASEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS
On-line building energy monitoring system and building energy diagnostics;
Industrial waste heat application for districting heating system;
HVAC system inovation
EDUCATION
2005,12
Ph.D. Building Environment and Services, Dept. of Building Science, School of Architecture, Tsinghua University, China
Subject: Building environment and technology
Topic: Research on Optimization Control of the Variable Refrigerant Flow (VRF) Air-conditioning System
2003.12
M.S. Lab. of Thermodynamics, Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of Liege, Belgium
Subject: Thermal dynamics engineering
Topic: Experimental Study and Modeling on the heat Recovery Multi-split Systems
1999.07
B.S. Heating, Ventilating & Air Conditioning Engineering, Dept. of Thermal Engineering, Tsinghua University, China
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2011.12~ Present:
Associate professor, Department of Building Science, School of Architecture, Tsinghua University, China
2008.6~ 2011.12:
Associate professor, Department of Building Science, School of Architecture, Tsinghua University, China
2007.4 ~ 2009.4:
Visiting Professor, Penn/Tsinghua T.C. Chan Center for Building Simulation and Energy Studies School of Design, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Research Projects
The 11th 5-year national plan project: Simulation toolkit and design method for energy efficient building design, sponsored by Ministry of Science and Technology, 2006-2010
UPENN, USA: Research on the mechanical systems control strategies to lower the energy consumption of on-campus buildings, Project Leader, 2006~present
IEA, USA: Annex48, Heat pumping and reversible air conditioning, Participant, 2006~present
UTRC, USA: Integrated building system, Project leader, 2006~2008
Daikin, Japan: Development of VRV Module Built in DeST, Project Leader, 2006~present
Electrabel, European Energy Company: Energy performance comparing between the conventional cooling-ceiling system and variable refrigerant flow (VRF) system, Researcher and chief editor of final report, 2000~2003
Siemens, Belgiun: Experimental investigation of a train-used HVAC group, Researcher, 2002
DTC, Belgium: Commissioning and on-site investigation of the heat recovery VRF system in building, Researcher, 2000
IEA, USA: Annex 40, Commissioning of Building and HVAC System for improved energy performance, Participant, 2000
DeST: Designer’s Simulation Toolkit, Major Developer.1999~present2.
Courses taught
1. Undergraduate
Pump and Fan (30 students in Autumn semester)
Fluid network (30 students in Spring semester)
2. Graduate
Commercial building energy diagnostics (15 students, Tsinghua-Upenn Joint course in Autumn semester)
HONORS AND AWARDS
PROFESSIONAL AFFILITIONS AND ACTIVITIES
Conference
2012.1 Finland, Helsinki, VTT, workshop, “Present situation of building energy consumption for heating in China”；
2012.3 USA, Philadelphia, Greater Philadelphia Innovation Cluster(GPIC) Advisory Board Meeting；
2012.4 Denmark, Copenhagen, IEA DHC Annex XI: Smart DHC Networks in Low Temperature Energy Systems；
2012.8 Iceland Reykjavik, IEA DHC Annex XI: Smart DHC Networks in Low Temperature Energy Systems；
2012.11 Germany, Frankfort, IEA DHC ExCo Meeting；
Social organization
PUBILICATIONS
Journal papers
1) Jianjun Xia, He Xiao, L Chang and Yi Jiang, Case study of data-oriented approach for building energy performance investigation, Front. Energy Power Eng. China 2010
2) Xie Xiaona, Jiang Yi, Xia Jianjun, A new approach to compute heat transfer of ground-coupled envelope in building thermal simulation software, Energy and building, 2008(40) p476-485.
3) Xiaoliang Zhang, Jianjun Xia, Ziyan Jiang, Jiyi Huang, etc, DeST- An Integrated Building Simulation Tookit Part II: Applications. Building simulation. 2008 Issue 1, p193-209.
4) Liu Xiaohua, Jiang Yi, Xia Jianjun and Chang Xiaomin, Analytical solutions of coupled heat and mass transfer processes in liquid desiccant air dehumidifier/regenerator, Energy Conversion and Management, 48 (7), p.2221-2232, Jul 2007.
5) Jianjun Xia, Da Yan, Yi, jiang, Building environment design simulation software DeST(9): Simulation and analysisi of cooling plants (part 1), Journal of HV&AC, 2005,3, p56~64
6) Da Yan, Jianjun Xia , Yi, jiang, Building environment design simulation software DeST(9): Simulation and analysisi of cooling plants (part 2), Journal of HV&AC, 2005,4, p42~53
7) Jianjun Xia, Eric Winandy, Bernard Georges and Jean Lebrun. Experimental analysis of the performances of variable refrigerant flow systems, Building Services Engineering Research and Technology, v 25, n 1, 2004, p 17-23.
8) Chai Qinhu, Ma Guoyuan, Jiang Yi, Xia Jianjun. Thermodynamic analyses of scroll refrigeration system with economizer. Journal of Tsinghua University, v 43, n 10, October, 2003, p 1401-1404.
Selected conference proceedings
1) Qi Shen, Alison Lu, Jianjun Xia*, Daily Energy Consumption Density Analyzing Method for Hourly Data Monitoring System，Procedding of COBEE’2012,University of Colorado, Boulder, , USA,2012 Aug 1-4;
2) Hao Fang, Jianjun Xia*, Yi Jiang, An Operation Strategy for using a Ground Heat Exchanger System for Industrial Waste Heat Storage and Extraction，Procedding of COBEE’2012,University of Colorado, Boulder, , USA,2012 Aug 1-4;
3) B.Yan*, J.J.Xia, A. Malkawi Case study of Building energy use pattern analysis, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Heating, Ventilation and Air-conditioning ISHVAC 2011.Shanghai, CHINA
4) Hao Fang, Jianjun Xia*, Yi Jiang, Utilization of industrial waste heat for district heating, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Heating, Ventilation and Air-conditioning, ISHVAC 2011.Shanghai, CHINA
5) Qi Shen, Jianjun Xia*, Yi Jiang, Case study on energy performance and retrofitting technologies for a resort hotel, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Heating, Ventilation and Air-conditioning ISHVAC 2011.Shanghai, CHINA
6) Yan Da, Tang Wai-yin, XIA Jianjun and Jiang Yi, A study on HVAC scheme design simulation methodology, Proceedings of the System Simulation in Buildings Conferences, 2006, Liège-Belgium.
