Analysis of MIT's past and future energy expenditure/

With the current rate at which technology is advancing, MIT has to update and replace out-of-date facilities as well as add new ones to stay at the forefront of university research. As MIT continues to expand its facilities, the amount of energy required to run those facilities will also increase. An analysis of future energy usage allows for energy saving systems to be planned before the facilities are complete, and implementation can be started before the energy has been spent. This thesis will be such an analysis on the energy usage of MIT's current capital projects, as well as the historical trends of MIT's energy usage. Conclusions will be drawn on how much these facilities or renovations will increase the university's energy expenditure by comparing facilities that currently exist to ones that are still in planning. By comparing the EUI of planned capital projects to that of existing facilities, a range was found for each facility's energy usage. Using this data, it was found that MIT will see a change in purchased energy between -16.5% and 4.28% by 2030. The low energy estimate matches with MIT's claimed -15% by 2030. The high energy estimate does not match, and shows that the rate at which MIT is currently expanding is not sustainable until 2030.

Name thesis:degree_name

Bachelor

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2019

Author dc:creator

• Hartman, Michael(Michael J.),S.B.Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Timothy Gutowski.

• Mechanical Engineering.

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• MIT theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed, downloaded, or printed from this source but further reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/123295

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/123295