Laurent Georges

Associate Professor

Department of Energy and Process Engineering Faculty of Engineering

laurent.georges@ntnu.no +47 73592484 +47 47443861

Varmeteknisk, B228, Gløshaugen, Kolbjørn Hejes vei 1b

Teaching activities: Engineering Thermodynamics 1, Building Performance Simulation.

Research areas: Building Performance Simulation (BPS), heating, cooling and ventilation systems (HVAC), heat pump systems, zero energy and zero emission buildings (ZEB), energy flexible buildings and control, physical-based and data-driven modelling of buildings, computational fluid dynamics (CFD).

Research activities and projects:

Integration of heating, cooling and ventilation systems in buildings

HVAC for renovation of single-family houses (OPPTRE project).
Design and integration of heat pump systems (ChiNoZEN project, IEA HPT Annex 49).
Simplified space-heating distribution in super-insulated buildings (ZEB centre).
Development of building concepts such as Zero Emission Buildings (ZEB centre).
Building integration of wood stoves (WoodCFD project).

Energy flexibility of buildings and control

Energy flexible operation of heat pump systems.
Data-driven modelling and Model Predictive Control of buildings (Norwegian research centre on Zero Emission Neighbourhoods in Smart Cities, ZEN).

Other modelling developments

High-resolution CFD for airflows inside buildings.

Memberships of committees:

Member of Norsk VVS Stiftelsen – NORVAC Foundation.
Board member of the Nordic Chapter of the International Building Performance Simulation Association (IBPSA-Nordic).
Member of the SN/K 34 national standardization committee about the energy performance of buildings.

Scientific, academic and artistic work

A selection of recent journal publications, artistic productions, books, including book and report excerpts. See all publications in the database

2021

Georges, Laurent; Storlien, Elin; Askeland, Magnus; Lindberg, Karen Byskov. (2021) Development of a data-driven model to characterize the heat storage of the building thermal mass in energy planning tools. E3S Web of Conferences. vol. 246.
Smedegård, Ole Øiene; Jonsson, Thomas; Aas, Bjørn; Stene, Jørn; Georges, Laurent; Carlucci, Salvatore. (2021) The implementation of multiple linear regression for swimming pool facilities: Case study at Jøa, Norway. Energies. vol. 14 (16).
Yu, Xingji; Georges, Laurent; Imsland, Lars Struen. (2021) Data pre-processing and optimization techniques for stochastic and deterministic low-order grey-box models of residential buildings. Energy and Buildings. vol. 236.

2020

Thalfeldt, Martin; Skare, Anders B.; Georges, Laurent; Skreiberg, Øyvind. (2020) Parametric Energy Simulations of a Nordic Detached House Heated by a Wood Stove. E3S Web of Conferences. vol. 172.
Yu, Xingji; You, Shi; Cai, Hanmin; Georges, Laurent; Bacher, Peder. (2020) Data-driven Modelling and Optimal Control of Domestic Electric Water Heaters for Demand Response. Environmental Science and Engineering.

2019

Cablé, Axel; Georges, Laurent; Peigné, Pierre; Skreiberg, Øyvind; Druette, Lionel. (2019) Evaluation of a New System Combining Wood-Burning Stove, Flue Gas Heat Exchanger and Mechanical Ventilation with Heat Recovery in Highly-Insulated Houses. Applied Thermal Engineering. vol. 157.
Clauß, John; Georges, Laurent. (2019) Model complexity of heat pump systems to investigate the building energy flexibility and guidelines for model implementation. Applied Energy. vol. 255.
Clauß, John; Stinner, Sebastian; Sartori, Igor; Georges, Laurent. (2019) Predictive rule-based control to activate the energy flexibility of Norwegian residential buildings: Case of an air-source heat pump and direct electric heating. Applied Energy. vol. 237.
Clauß, John; Stinner, Sebastian; Solli, Christian; Lindberg, Karen Byskov; Madsen, Henrik; Georges, Laurent. (2019) Evaluation Method for the Hourly Average CO2eq. Intensity of the Electricity Mix and Its Application to the Demand Response of Residential Heating. Energies. vol. 12 (7).
Felius, Laurina C; Thalfeldt, Martin; Georges, Laurent; Hrynyszyn, Bozena Dorota; Dessen, Fredrik; Hassan Mohamed, Mohamed Hamdy. (2019) Wood burning habits and its effect on the electrical energy demand of a retrofitted Norwegian detached house. IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science (EES). vol. 352:01022.
Georges, Laurent; Selvnes, Eirik; Heide, Vegard; Mathisen, Hans Martin. (2019) Energy efficiency of strategies to enable temperature zoning during winter in highly-insulated residential buildings equipped with balanced mechanical ventilation. IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science (EES). vol. 352 (1).
Heide, Vegard; Georges, Laurent; Lien, Anne Gunnarshaug; Mathisen, Hans Martin. (2019) Review of HVAC strategies for energy renovation of detached houses towards nZEB in cold climates. IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science (EES). vol. 352 (1).
Johnsen, Thea; Taksdal, Katrine; Clauß, John; Yu, Xingji; Georges, Laurent. (2019) Influence of thermal zoning and electric radiator control on the energy flexibility potential of Norwegian detached houses. E3S Web of Conferences. vol. 111.
Skreiberg, Øyvind; Haugen, Nils Erland L; Bugge, Mette; Georges, Laurent. (2019) CFD and Building Integration Modelling of Wood Stoves - Status and Further Needs. European biomass conference and exhibition proceedings. vol. 2019 (27).
Thalfeldt, Martin; Skare, Anders B.; Georges, Laurent; Skreiberg, Øyvind. (2019) A Simplified Power Sizing Method for the Correct Building Integration of Wood Stoves. E3S Web of Conferences. vol. 111.

2018

Georges, Laurent; Thalfeldt, Martin; Skreiberg, Øyvind; Fornari, Walter. (2018) Validation of a transient zonal model to predict the detailed indoor thermal environment: case of electric radiators and wood stoves. Building and Environment. vol. 149.
Kristjansdottir, Torhildur Fjola; Houlihan Wiberg, Aoife Anne Marie; Andresen, Inger; Georges, Laurent; Heeren, Niko; Good, Clara; Brattebø, Helge. (2018) Is a net life cycle balance for energy and materials achievable for a zero emission single-family building in Norway?. Energy and Buildings. vol. 168.
Skreiberg, Øyvind; Georges, Laurent. (2018) Transient heat production and release profiles for wood stoves. Chemical Engineering Transactions. vol. 65.

2017

Cablé, Axel; Georges, Laurent; Peigné, P.; Skreiberg, Øyvind; Chetehouna, K.. (2017) Coupled Ventilation and Flue Gas Heat Exchanger System for Use in Low Energy Dwellings: An Investigation Using Dynamic Energy Simulations. European biomass conference and exhibition proceedings.
Georges, Laurent; Håheim, Fredrik; Alonso, Maria Justo. (2017) Simplified space-heating distribution using radiators in super-insulated terraced houses. Energy Procedia. vol. 132.

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