Dre Helmns

Dre Helmns

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Education

Mechanical Engineering, BS, Loyola Marymount University, 2015
Mechanical Engineering, MS, University of California, Berkeley, 2016
Mechanical Engineering, PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 2019

Publications

2024

Demystifying Thermal Energy Storage Integrated Heat Pump Systems: Development of Generalized Sizing and Control Algorithms for Demand Flexibility

Authors: Casillas, Armando; Thomas Defauw; Sang woo Ham; Dre Helmns; Lazlo Paul; Anand Prakash; Weiping Huang; Peter Grant, and Marco Pritoni.
08/2024

2022

Heat Pumps with Phase Change Thermal Storage: Flexible, Efficient, and Electrification Friendly

Authors: Helmns, Dre; Armando Casillas; Anand Prakash; David Blum; Marco Pritoni; Spencer M Dutton; Jonathan Woolley, and Subhrajit Chakraborty.
08/2022

2021

Towards a Techno-Economic Analysis of PCM-Integrated Hybrid HVAC Systems

Authors: Helmns, Dre; David Blum; Armando Casillas; Anand Prakash; Jonathan Woolley; David Vernon; Caton Mande; Michael Woodcox, and Spencer M Dutton.
05/2021

Development and Validation of a Latent Thermal Energy Storage Model Using Modelica

Authors: Helmns, Dre; David Blum; Spencer M Dutton, and Van P Carey.
01/2021