Publications

X Author: Armando Casillas

2025

Paul, Lazlo, Ettore Zanetti, Jingjing Liu, Armando Casillas, Anand Prakash, David Blum, Robert Nirenberg, and Marco Pritoni."BOPTEST as a Platform for Building Controls and Grid-Interactive Buildings Workforce Training." (2025). DOI
Paul, Lazlo, Sang woo Ham, Anand Prakash, Armando Casillas, Tao Yang, and Marco Pritoni."HP-FLEX: Field demonstration of the semantics-driven configuration of a Model Predictive Control system to make heat pumps flexible." (2025). DOI

2024

Casillas, Armando, Thomas Defauw, Sang woo Ham, Dre Helmns, Lazlo Paul, Anand Prakash, Weiping Huang, Peter Grant, and Marco Pritoni."Demystifying Thermal Energy Storage Integrated Heat Pump Systems: Development of Generalized Sizing and Control Algorithms for Demand Flexibility."ACEEE Summer Study (2024).
Casillas, Armando, Jessica Granderson, Yimin Chen, John House, Guanjing Lin, Weiping Huang, Guhan Velmurugan, and Marco Pritoni."Innovating the next generation of commercial smart building software."ACEEE Summer Study (2024).
Ham, Sang woo, Lazlo Paul, Armando Casillas, Anand Prakash, Donghun Kim, Richard E Brown, Marco Pritoni, and Peter Grant."Practical challenges of model predictive control (MPC) for grid interactive small and medium commercial buildings."ACEEE Summer Study (2024).
Pereira, Flavia De Andrade, Lazlo Paul, Marco Pritoni, Armando Casillas, Anand Prakash, Weiping Huang, Conor Shaw, Susana Martin-Toral, Donal Finn, and James O’ Donnell."Enabling portable demand flexibility control applications in virtual and real buildings."Journal of Building Engineering 86 (2024) 108645. DOI
Casillas, Armando, Yimin Chen, Jessica Granderson, Guanjing Lin, Zhelun Chen, Jin Wen, and Sen Huang."Development of high-fidelity air handling unit fault models for FDD innovation: lessons learned and recommendations."Journal of Building Performance Simulation 17.5 (2024) 615-630. DOI

2023

Liu, Jingjing, Lili Yu, Rongxin Yin, Mary Ann Piette, Marco Pritoni, Armando Casillas, and Peter Schwartz."Factors Influencing Building Demand Flexibility." (2023). DOI
Yin, Rongxin, Jingjing Liu, Mary Ann Piette, Jiarong Xie, Marco Pritoni, Armando Casillas, Lili Yu, and Peter Schwartz."Comparing simulated demand flexibility against actual performance in commercial office buildings."Building and Environment 243 (2023) 110663. DOI
Granderson, Jessica, Guanjing Lin, Yimin Chen, Armando Casillas, Jin Wen, Zhelun Chen, Piljae Im, Sen Huang, and Jiazhen Ling."A labeled dataset for building HVAC systems operating in faulted and fault-free states."Scientific Data 10 (2023). DOI
Lin, Guanjing, Armando Casillas, Maggie Sheng, and Jessica Granderson."Performance Evaluation of an Occupancy-Based HVAC Control System in an Office Building."Energies 16.20 (2023) 7088. DOI

2022

Liu, Jingjing, Rongxin Yin, Lili Yu, Mary Ann Piette, Marco Pritoni, Armando Casillas, Jiarong Xie, Tianzhen Hong, Monica Neukomm, and Peter Schwartz."Defining and applying an electricity demand flexibility benchmarking metrics framework for grid-interactive efficient commercial buildings."Advances in Applied Energy 8 (2022) 100107. DOI
Liu, Jingjing, Lili Yu, Rongxin Yin, Mary Ann Piette, Marco Pritoni, Armando Casillas, Monica Neukomm, and Amir Roth."Benchmarking Demand Flexibility in Commercial Buildings and Flattening the Duck – Addressing Baseline and Commissioning Challenges."2022 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2022). DOI
Casillas, Armando, Guanjing Lin, Jessica Granderson, Sen Huang, and Yan Chen."Development of a Simulated Air Handling Unit Fault Dataset for FDD Tools: Lessons Learned and Considerations for FDD Developers."2022 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2022). DOI
Lin, Guanjing, Armando Casillas, Maggie Sheng, and Jessica Granderson."Evaluating the Performance of HVAC Optimal Control Based on Real-time Floor-by-Floor Occupancy Data."ACEEE (2022).
Helmns, Dre, Armando Casillas, Anand Prakash, David Blum, Marco Pritoni, Spencer M Dutton, Jonathan Woolley, and Subhrajit Chakraborty."Heat Pumps with Phase Change Thermal Storage: Flexible, Efficient, and Electrification Friendly."2022 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2022). DOI
Yu, Lili, Jingjing Liu, Rongxin Yin, Mary Ann Piette, Marco Pritoni, Armando Casillas, Monica Neukomm, and Amir Roth."When Do Efficiency and Demand Flexibility Go Hand-in-hand?."2022 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2022). DOI
Casillas, Armando, Yimin Chen, Guanjing Lin, Jessica Granderson, Sen Huang, and Zhelun Chen."Modeling Air Handling Units to Create a Diverse Fault Dataset for FDD Innovation: Lessons Learned and Recommendations."7th International High Performance Buildings Conference (2022). DOI

2021

Helmns, Dre, David Blum, Armando Casillas, Anand Prakash, Jonathan Woolley, David Vernon, Caton Mande, Michael Woodcox, and Spencer M Dutton."Towards a Techno-Economic Analysis of PCM-Integrated Hybrid HVAC Systems."6th International High Performance Buildings Conference at Purdue (2021).
Casillas, Armando, Mark Modera, and Marco Pritoni."Using non-invasive MEMS pressure sensors for measuring building envelope air leakage."Energy and Buildings 233 (2021) 110653. DOI

2020

Casillas, Armando, Guanjing Lin, and Jessica Granderson."Curation of Ground-Truth Validated Benchmarking Datasets for Fault Detection & Diagnostics Tools."2020 ACEEE Summer Study (2020). DOI