Modeling building thermal response to HVAC zoning
Modeling building thermal response to HVAC zoning
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模拟建筑对 HVAC 分区的热响应
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2012
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K. Whitehouse
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作者:
V. Smith;Tamim I. Sookoor;K. Whitehouse
HVAC systems account for 38% of building energy usage. Studies have indicated at least 5-15% waste due to unoccupied spaces being conditioned. Our goal is to minimize this waste by retrofitting HVAC systems to enable room-level zoning where each room is conditioned individually based on its occupancy. This will allow only occupied rooms to be conditioned while saving the energy used to condition unoccupied rooms. In order to achieve this goal, the effect of opening or closing air vent registers on room temperatures has to be predicted. Making such a prediction is complicated by the fact that weather has a larger effect on room temperatures than the settings of air vent registers, making it hard to isolate the influence of the HVAC system. We present a technique for dynamically estimating the heat load due to weather on room temperatures and subtracting it out in order to predict the effect of the HVAC system more directly.