BEMS Team
Infrastructures
Jacques Geelen Laboratory
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The Jacques Geelen Laboratory was developed as part of an European project. It has several heating and cooling production and distribution systems and allows large-scale tests (real scale of a single-family home).
A climatic chamber is also present in the heart of the laboratory. This is surrounded by a buffer zone that allows specific weather conditions (temperatures) to be reproduced (the temperature in this zone can be imposed at a minimum of 4°C). The climatic chamber will therefore be subjected during tests and experiments to these specific climatic conditions. Thus, different management and/or optimization scenarios can be applied in this climatic chamber.
The laboratory is regularly called upon for tests within the framework of research projects relating to energy efficiency, optimization or system development...
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Jacques Geelen Laboratory
Weather Station
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Located next to the Jacques Geelen laboratory, a weather station has the traditional measuring instruments (temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure) and more pointed such as several solar radiation sensors and a diffuse radiation sensor. These data as well as the location of the station allow, during computer simulations of the building, to have reliable data of weather conditions to which the building is exposed.
Real Time Weather Data
If you wish to obtain data from the campus weather station, please contact us.
Solar Tracker
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Since May 2018, our weather station is equipped with a state-of-the-art Solar Tracker. This equipment allows us to measure direct and diffuse radiation in real time with a global radiation calculation.
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Equipment
Portable Equipment
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The team is also specialized in on-site monitoring and has many portable equipment such as Testo, Lascars,...
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