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D. E. Claridge, a Professor affiliated with the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station, conducts research focused on energy consumption and performance in commercial buildings. Their work investigates methods for improving operational efficiency, particularly within healthcare facilities, through processes like Continuous Commissioning®.
Recent publications by Claridge explore statistical energy consumption models for commercial buildings, global trends in datacom facilities, and thermal management strategies in data centers. Further research includes the energy performance of dehumidification systems, fault detection and diagnosis for chillers, and the impact of occupancy on cooling energy modeling. Claridge's scholarship includes 392 publications, with an h-index of 35 and over 3,600 citations. They have collaborated with Depu Lu on multiple publications.
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- h-index: 35
- Publications: 392
- Citations: 3,689
Positions
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Professor 1986–presentTexas A&M University Mechanical Engineering Department ORCID
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ProfessorArkansas Agricultural Experiment Station ORCID
Selected Publications
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Closed-Form and Reduced-Order Solutions for Transient Heat Conduction in a Solid Slab with Prescribed Heat-Flux/Convection Boundary Conditions and a Unified Variable-Thickness Framework (2026)
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Commissioning for Energy Management (2025)
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Impact of air on vertical pipe sections pressure loss in a re-circulated hydronic system (2025)
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Digital Dentistry for Primary Care (2025)
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Impact of air on re-circulated hydronic pumping efficiency: Origin of air and performance degradation modeling (2025)
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Rheological Analysis of Stress and Strain Rate of Non-Spherical Bubble With Multi-Mode Interfacial Perturbation in a Single and Multi-Bubble Systems Under Pressure Waves (2024)
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Novel Chiller Modeling Strategies for Low-Cost Measurement and Verification of Retrofit Measures (2024)
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Exploring the theoretical minimum energy use in the U.S. office building sector (2024)
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Evaluating inverse modeling methods for measurement and verification of chiller energy efficiency measures (2024)
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Dynamics of Bubble Growth and Collapse Under Pressure Perturbation (2024)
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Quantitative fault detection and diagnosis methods for vapour compression chillers: Exploring the potential for field-implementation (2024)
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Thermal management in legacy air-cooled data centers: An overview and perspectives (2023)
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Combined Cooling, Heating, and Power (Cchp) System Design Economic and Emissions Benefit Evaluation for Existing Central Utility Plants (2023)
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Global trends, performance metrics, and energy reduction measures in datacom facilities (2023)
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Top tips in digital dentistry for primary care (2022)
Collaboration Network
Top Collaborators
- International performance measurement & verification protocol: Concepts and options for determining energy and water savings
- ASHRAE's Guideline 14-2002 for Measurement of Energy and Demand Savings: How to Determine What Was Really Saved by the Retrofit
- Building Energy Use Prediction and System Identification Using Recurrent Neural Networks
- A Change-Point Principal Component Analysis (CP/PCA) Method for Predicting Energy Usage in Commercial Buildings: The PCA Model
- Baselining methodology for facility-level monthly energy use. Part 1: Theoretical aspects
Showing 5 of 33 shared publications
- Continuous CommissioningSM of Building Energy Systems
- Is Commissioning Once Enough?
- Control Optimization for a Chilled Water Thermal Storage System Under a Complicated Time-of-Use Electricity Rate Schedule
- Optimization Control Strategies for HVAC Terminal Boxes
- Continuous Commissioning Results Verification and Follow-up For an Institutional Building: A Case Study
Showing 5 of 24 shared publications
- Use of Calibrated HVAC System Models to Optimize System Operation
- Continuous CommissioningSM of Building Energy Systems
- Is Commissioning Once Enough?
- An air filter pressure loss model for fan energy calculation in air handling units
- Introduction to the DOE Continuous Commissioning Guidebook-Maximizing Building Energy Performance and Efficiency
Showing 5 of 21 shared publications
- Ambient-Temperature Regression Analysis for Estimating Retrofit Savings in Commercial Buildings
- Multivariate Regression Modeling
- Using synthetic data to evaluate multiple regression and principal component analyses for statistical modeling of daily building energy consumption
- A Fourier Series Model to Predict Hourly Heating and Cooling Energy Use in Commercial Buildings With Outdoor Temperature as the Only Weather Variable
- Modeling Hourly Energy Use in Commercial Buildings With Fourier Series Functional Forms
Showing 5 of 18 shared publications
- Baselining methodology for facility-level monthly energy use. Part 1: Theoretical aspects
- Improving building energy system performance by continuous commissioning
- Baseline calculations for measurement and verification of energy and demand savings in a revolving loan program in Texas
- Baselining methodology for facility-level monthly energy use - Part 2: application to eight army installations
- Program Overview: The Texas LoanSTAR Program; 1989-October 1999, A 10-Year Experience
Showing 5 of 11 shared publications
- Review of developments in whole-building statistical energy consumption models for commercial buildings
- Study of Cubic Splines and Fourier Series as Interpolation Techniques for Filling in Short Periods of Missing Building Energy Use and Weather Data
- Study of Cubic Splines and Fourier Series as Interpolation Techniques for Filling in Short Periods of Missing Building Energy Use and Weather Data
- Occupancy analysis in commercial building cooling energy modelling with domestic water and electricity consumption
- USE OF FIRST LAW ENERGY BALANCE AS A SCREENING TOOL FOR BUILDING ENERGY USE DATA: EXPERIENCES ON THE INCLUSION OF OUTSIDE AIR ENTHALPY VARIABLE
Showing 5 of 11 shared publications
- Building Energy Use Prediction and System Identification Using Recurrent Neural Networks
- Analytical Model to Predict Annual Soil Surface Temperature Variation
- ITPE technique applications to time-varying two-dimensional ground-coupling problems
- The ITPE technique applied to steady-state ground-coupling problems
- ITPE Technique Applications to Time-Varying Three-Dimensional Ground-Coupling Problems
Showing 5 of 10 shared publications
- Building Energy Use Prediction and System Identification Using Recurrent Neural Networks
- Analytical Model to Predict Annual Soil Surface Temperature Variation
- ITPE technique applications to time-varying two-dimensional ground-coupling problems
- The ITPE technique applied to steady-state ground-coupling problems
- ITPE Technique Applications to Time-Varying Three-Dimensional Ground-Coupling Problems
Showing 5 of 10 shared publications
- Development of an Inverse Method to Estimate Overall Building and Ventilation Parameters of Large Commercial Buildings
- Control Optimization for a Chilled Water Thermal Storage System Under a Complicated Time-of-Use Electricity Rate Schedule
- Continuous Commissioning Results Verification and Follow-up For an Institutional Building: A Case Study
- The Cost-Effectiveness of Continuous Commissioning® Over the Past Ten Years
- A Ten-Year, $7 Million Energy Initiative Marching on: Texas A&M University Campus Energy Systems CC
Showing 5 of 10 shared publications
- Is Commissioning Once Enough?
- Control Optimization for a Chilled Water Thermal Storage System Under a Complicated Time-of-Use Electricity Rate Schedule
- The Cost-Effectiveness of Continuous Commissioning® Over the Past Ten Years
- Single-Duct Constant Air Volume System Supply Air Temperature Reset: Using Return Air Temperature or Outside Air Temperature?
- Lessons and Measures Learned from Continuous Commissioning(SM) of Central Chilled/Hot Water Systems
Showing 5 of 9 shared publications
- Multivariate Regression Modeling
- Use of Simplified System Models to Measure Retrofit Energy Savings
- Effect of time resolution on statistical modeling of cooling energy use in large commercial buildings
- The Functional Basis of Steady-State Thermal Energy Use in Air-Side HVAC Equipment
- An Energy Delivery Efficiency Index to Evaluate Simultaneous Heating and Cooling Effects in Large Commercial Buildings
Showing 5 of 9 shared publications
- Uncertainty of “Measured” Energy Savings from Statistical Baseline Models
- Baselining methodology for facility-level monthly energy use. Part 1: Theoretical aspects
- Effect of time resolution on statistical modeling of cooling energy use in large commercial buildings
- Baseline calculations for measurement and verification of energy and demand savings in a revolving loan program in Texas
- Reducing Building Energy Costs Using Optimized Operation Strategies for Constant Volume Air Handling Systems
Showing 5 of 9 shared publications
- ASHRAE's Guideline 14-2002 for Measurement of Energy and Demand Savings: How to Determine What Was Really Saved by the Retrofit
- Algorithm for automating the selection of a temperature dependent change point model
- A simplified methodology to optimize the cooling tower approach temperature control schedule in a cooling system
- A new approach for drying moist air: The ideal Claridge-Culp-Liu dehumidification process with membrane separation, vacuum compression and sub-atmospheric condensation
- Is Commissioning Once Enough?
Showing 5 of 8 shared publications
- Continuous Commissioning Results Verification and Follow-up For an Institutional Building: A Case Study
- Experiences on the Implementation of the 'Energy Balance' Methodology as a Data Quality Control Tool: Application to the Building Energy Consumption of a Large University Campus
- Lessons and Measures Learned from Continuous Commissioning(SM) of Central Chilled/Hot Water Systems
- Impacts of Optimized Cold & Hot Deck Reset Schedules on Dual Duct VAV Systems - Application and Results
- A Ten-Year, $7 Million Energy Initiative Marching on: Texas A&M University Campus Energy Systems CC
Showing 5 of 8 shared publications
- Ambient-Temperature Regression Analysis for Estimating Retrofit Savings in Commercial Buildings
- The Functional Basis of Steady-State Thermal Energy Use in Air-Side HVAC Equipment
- Inverse Model Toolkit: Application and Testing
- An Energy Delivery Efficiency Index to Evaluate Simultaneous Heating and Cooling Effects in Large Commercial Buildings
- Effect of short data periods on the annual prediction accuracy of temperature-dependent regression models of commercial building energy use
Showing 5 of 7 shared publications