TY - GEN
T1 - ASSESSING THE PERFORMANCE OF THE NEURAL NETWORK-BASED CONTROL TO MANAGE BOILERS THROUGH A REDUCED-ORDER BUILDING'S MODEL
AU - Savadkoohi, Marjan
AU - Macarulla Martí, Marcel
AU - Casals Casanova, Miquel
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 by the authors. Licensee AEIPRO, Spain.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - There is a growing need to optimize the heating ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems during building operations due to its high contribution to buildings' energy consumption and the willingness to meet the international energy and climate changes targets. Predictive and adaptive controls have arisen as proper tools to reduce the HVAC's energy consumption. They can predict future scenarios and determine the optimal strategy to manage HVAC systems. In this regard, control strategies based on neural networks (NN) to manage boilers and control the temperature setbacks are attracting significant attention. This study aims to use the reduced-order building descriptions as a benchmark model for building energy simulation to demonstrate an NN-based control's effectiveness in managing boilers in buildings. Reduced-order buildings will be simulated with different meteorological locations from various climate zones to determine if the proposed control system is more efficient than a schedule-based control or if certain zones have more potential to save energy. To carry out this analysis, a set of KPIs will be used to assess the performance of the proposed control and compare the results within the different scenarios and the baseline scenario, the scheduled-based control.
AB - There is a growing need to optimize the heating ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems during building operations due to its high contribution to buildings' energy consumption and the willingness to meet the international energy and climate changes targets. Predictive and adaptive controls have arisen as proper tools to reduce the HVAC's energy consumption. They can predict future scenarios and determine the optimal strategy to manage HVAC systems. In this regard, control strategies based on neural networks (NN) to manage boilers and control the temperature setbacks are attracting significant attention. This study aims to use the reduced-order building descriptions as a benchmark model for building energy simulation to demonstrate an NN-based control's effectiveness in managing boilers in buildings. Reduced-order buildings will be simulated with different meteorological locations from various climate zones to determine if the proposed control system is more efficient than a schedule-based control or if certain zones have more potential to save energy. To carry out this analysis, a set of KPIs will be used to assess the performance of the proposed control and compare the results within the different scenarios and the baseline scenario, the scheduled-based control.
KW - Boiler schedule
KW - Building energy consumption
KW - Building simulation
KW - Model predictive control (MPC)
KW - Neural networks
KW - Reduced-order model
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85150363911
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85150363911
T3 - Proceedings from the International Congress on Project Management and Engineering
SP - 1389
EP - 1402
BT - 26th International Congress on Project Management and Engineering (Terrassa), CIDIP 2022 - 26th Congreso Internacional de Direccion e Ingenieria de Proyectos (Terrassa), CIDIP 2022 - Proceedings
PB - Asociacion Espanola de Direccion e Ingenieria de Proyectos (AEIPRO)
T2 - 26th International Congress on Project Management and Engineering (Terrassa), CIDIP 2022
Y2 - 5 July 2022 through 8 July 2022
ER -
