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195373 https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.2.N.195373 http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ All Rights Reserved 2024 204 pages Doctoral Dissertation Academic theses Text eng Fette, Nicholas Woodruff Phelan, Patrick Bryan, Harvey Wang, Robert Johnson, Nathan Lee, Tae-Woo Arizona State University Partial requirement for: Ph.D., Arizona State University, 2024 Field of study: Mechanical Engineering Achieving a zero net emissions economy in line with science-based climate goals requires coordinated technical efforts at an unprecedented scale and pace. This work identifies and addresses high impact gaps in systems and tools needed to facilitate decision-making analyses, with a focus on optimization in the context of California’s building energy transition programs. To utilize waste heat from a concentrating solar power tower to deliver process or comfort cooling, technology options are compared across a range of ambient temperatures with each technology being optimized at each design point. Tools for modeling sorption cooling cycles are developed that lower the barrier to entry and enable near real-time design iteration and optimization. An analysis of dual fuel space heating technology potential demonstrates the impact of adopting a connected and optimized control strategy on the operating cost and emissions reduction tradeoff. Based on experience with these analyses, additional discussion points to gaps required to support further optimization analyses and faster iteration of calculation tools used in the regulated energy efficiency industry. Mechanical Engineering Building Energy Systems California Energy Programs Dual Fuel Heating Energy Transitions Optimization Tools Sorption Cooling Enabling Systems for Energy Transitions