Heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning (HVAC) system design can be markedly improved through the application of numerical optimization procedures within the design process. This paper describes a procedure for the formulation and solution of HVAC system optimization problems that has been implemented in a library of computer programs. Consideration is given to the interaction between the si...

Depending upon one's perspective, distributed control has had an either extremely long, or extremely short history in the application of heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) control. HVAC systems have been in existence for the entire duration of human architecture, at least in terms of heating, with air-conditioning arriving in the 1800's with the industrial revolution, as a means ...

Conventional HVAC control systems are usually incognizant of the physical structures and materials of buildings. These systems merely follow pre-set HVAC control logic based on abstract building thermal response models, which are rough approximations to true physical models, ignoring dynamic spatial variations in built environments. To enable more accurate and responsive HVAC control, this pape...

Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems account for a significant portion of power consumption in commercial buildings all over the world [1, 4, 5, 6]. Since HVAC systems are designed for centralized cooling supplies, power consumption in each room is inestimable. Therefore, administrators are motivated to apportion the electricity payment for actual users. The even apportionm...

This work presents a literature review of control methods, with an emphasis on the theory and applications of model predictive control (MPC) for heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems. Several control methods used for HVAC control are identified from the literature review, and a brief survey of each method is presented. Next, the performance of MPC is compared with that of ot...