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DOE OSTI2016

Building-Wide, Adaptive Energy Management Systems for High-Performance Buildings: Final CRADA Report

Development and field demonstration of the minimum ratio policy for occupancy-driven, predictive control of outdoor air ventilation. Technology transfer of Argonne’s methods for occupancy estimation and forecasting and for M&V to BuildingIQ for their deployment. Selection of CO2 sensing as the currently best-available technology for occupancy-driven controls. Accelerated restart capability for the commercial BuildingIQ system using horizon shifting strategies applied to receding horizon optimal control problems. Empirical-based evidence of 30% chilled water energy savings and 22% total HVAC energy savings achievable with the BuildingIQ system operating in the APS Office Building on-site at Argonne.

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DOE OSTI2019

Considerations for Commercial Building Participation in a Transactive Energy: Additional Information on Commercial Buildings

The research done in FY 18 found that there were many factors particularly relevant to the commercial setting that would impact participation and should be considered when evaluating the effectiveness of a Transactive Energy (TE) system. One factor that became a major focus of this research was the ownership and lease structures, commercial real estate databases were used to estimate the percentage of commercial space that may be subject to a lease arrangement that inherently removed the incentive to participate in TE. Other major factors that were discussed were the impacts that participation could have on the production and revenue of a commercial space and how the state of the building and the equipment within it would effect the potential participation. The research on other factors was not discussed at the same level of detail; this addendum aims to analyze some of the other important factors on commercial participation in a TE system with similar rigor.

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NASA NTRS1976

Building application of solar energy. Study no. 4: Scenarios for the utilization of solar energy in southern California buildings, change 1

Plausible future market scenarios for solar heating and cooling systems into buildings in the area served by the Southern California Edison Company. A range of plausible estimates for the number of solar systems which might be installed and the electrical energy which might be displaced by energy from these systems are provided. The effect on peak electrical load was not explicitly calculated but preliminary conclusions concerning peak load can be inferred from the estimates presented. Two markets are investigated: the single family market and the large power commercial market.

Davis, E. S.↗
DOE OSTI2021

A hardware-in-the-loop approach for laboratory performance verification of flexible building equipment in a typical commercial building

The overall objective of the project is to develop datasets that measure the holistic load flexibility performance of a suite of commonly-used commercial building HVAC and thermal storage equipment using a hardware-in-the-loop test method. The development of the software side of the hardware-in-the-loop flexible load testbed is summarized in this paper.

Chen, Zhelun↗
DOE OSTI2021

From occupants to occupants: A review of the occupant information understanding for building HVAC occupant-centric control

Occupants are the core of the built environment. Traditional Heating, Ventilation, and Air-Conditioning (HVAC) systems operate with predefined schedules and maximum occupancy assumptions with no consideration of specific occupant information. These generalized assumptions usually do not align with the actual demand and result in over-conditioning and occupant discomfort. In recent years, with the aid of Information & Communication Technology (ICT) and Computer Science (CS), it is possible to acquire real-time and accurate occupant information to satisfy the exact thermal requirement through specific HVAC control in one particular built environment. This mechanism is called HVAC “Occupant-centric Control (OCC).” HVAC OCC strategy starts with collecting the occupant’s information (e.g., presence/absence) and then applies it to meet the occupant’s requirement (e.g., thermal comfort). However, even though some research studies and field pilot demonstrations have been devoted to the field of OCC, there is a lack of systematic knowledge about occupant data, which is the principal component of OCC for HVAC researchers and practitioners. To fill this gap, this review paper discusses OCC with a particular emphasis on occupant information and investigates how this information can assist HVAC operation in providing an acceptable built environment in required spaces during the required time. Finally, we provide a fine-grained, comprehensive picture of occupant information, discuss its features, the modalities of information feed-in into the HVAC control, and the application of commonly utilized occupant information for OCC.

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DOE OSTI2020

Processed data from the Building Management System for the System Engineering Building.

The dataset spans November 2018 to May 2020 and includes time-series measurements corresponding to supply and return temperatures of air and water, air, hot water and cold water flow rates, energy and power consumption, set-points etc. as a single CSV file. In addition to the measurements, a metadata .json file, and a .ttl file to visualize the data as per BRICK schema are also included.

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