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Smart Labs Final Report Summer 2021

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1814743· OSTI ID:1814743
 [1];  [2];  [3];  [3];  [4];  [5];  [6]
  1. Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA (United States); Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
  2. Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM (United States); Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
  3. Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ (United States); Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
  4. Texas A & M Univ., College Station, TX (United States); Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
  5. Univ. of California, San Diego, CA (United States); Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
  6. Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA (United States); Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
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The Smart Labs Project at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) is an initiative derived from The University of California, Irvine and is part of the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Better Buildings Challenge. These carbon abatement strategies aim to reduce energy consumption of laboratories while also maintaining health and safety requirements. Smart Labs designs incorporate seven key principles which are: digital control systems, demand-based ventilation, low power-density demand-based lighting, exhaust fan discharge velocity optimization, pressure drop optimization, fume hood flow optimization, and commissioning with automated cross-platform fault detection. As the ALDCP Smart Labs team for the summer of 2021, the scope of the project is to determine the energy savings within building 03-1698 (Material Science Laboratory - MSL). Over the past couple of years, the Sustainability Group has been adding Smart Labs upgrades into the MSL building and the summer team would like to understand the impact made for the overall energy consumption/demand and safety for the building, determine the overall return on investment (ROI), and recommend more Smart Labs upgrades that can be added to the MSL building. The goal is to enable the UI FOD (Utilities and Infrastructure Facility Operation Division) to promote more Smart Labs projects in the future and further the reputation LANL and DOE facilities have of being leading examples of developers of high performing buildings.
Research Organization:
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
89233218CNA000001
OSTI ID:
1814743
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-21-28296
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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