Mingzhe Liu

Education Background

Mingzhe Liu is an Architectural Engineering Ph.D. student in the Sustainable Buildings and Societies Laboratory. Mingzhe received his bachelor’s degree in Building Environment and Facilities Engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology, China in 2014. He then received his master's and doctoral degree in HVAC engineering at the University of Tokyo in 2020. His master's and doctoral research mainly focus on the utilization of renewable energy and heat pumps in building energy systems. During master's and doctoral phases, Mingzhe mainly participated in the project of developing a decentralized heat pump system, which was designed to utilize multiple kinds of renewable energy. The project was fully supported by the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), which always supports researches with high quality in Japan.

Research Interests

District/building energy system, Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings, Energy system modeling and optimization

Publications

• M.Liu, T.Hino, R.Ooka, K.Wen, W.Choi, D.Lee, S.Ikeda, Development of distributed multiple‐source and multiple‐use heat pump system using renewable energy: Outline of test building and experimental evaluation of cooling and heating performance, Japan Architectural Review, 4 (1), 241-252.
• M.Liu, T.Hino, R.Ooka, K.Wen, W.Choi, D.Lee, S.Ikeda, Development of distributed multiple source and multiple use heat pump system using renewable energy: outline of the test building and experimental evaluation of cooling and heating performance (再生可能エネルギーを利用する分散型マルチソース・マルチユースヒートポンプシステムの開発 試験建屋の構築及び実測による冷暖房性能評価), Journal of Environmental Engineering, 85 (771), 361-370. (in Japanese)
• M.Liu, R.Ooka, W.Choi, S.Ikeda, Experimental and numerical investigation of energy saving potential of centralized and decentralized pumping systems, Applied Energy, Volume 251, 113359.
• M.Liu, R.Ooka, T.Hino, K.Wen, W.Choi, D.Lee, S.Ikeda, Experimental performance analysis of a multiple-source and multiple-use heat pump system: winter field experiment and heating operation performance evaluation, 13th REHVA World Congress CLIMA 2019, 26−29 May, Bucharest, Romania. 
• K.Wen, R.Ooka, T.Hino, M.Liu, W.Choi, D.Lee, S.Ikeda, D.Palasz, Experimental performance analysis of a multiple-source and multiple-use heat pump system: a predictive ANN model of sky-source heat pump, 13th REHVA World Congress CLIMA 2019, 26−29 May, Bucharest, Romania. 
• M.Liu, R.Ooka, W.Choi, S.Ikeda, Comparison of the energy saving potential between centralized and decentralized pumping systems under various flow conditions, 2017 Annual Conference, Long Beach, CA, Conference Papers.