Residential and industrial buildings are significant consumers of energy, which can be reduced by controlling their respective Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems. Demand-based Ventilation (DCV) determines the operational times ventilation systems that depend on indoor air quality (IAQ) conditions, including CO2 concentration changes, occupants’ comfort requirements. The predi...

Due to at least two reasons, energy consumption for heating, ventilation, air conditioning (HVAC) and domestic hot water (DHW) systems should be reduced. First, the total energy consumption is high since nearly 20% of total energy in USA is accounted for HVAC systems. Sencond reason is exploitation of renevable energy sources, which depend on current time and weather situation. Thus, the energy...

| The expanding penetration of nondispatchable renewable resources within power system generation portfolios is motivating the development of demand-side strategies for balancing generation and load. Commercial heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) loads are potential candidates for providing such demand-response (DR) services as they consume significant energy and because of the te...

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...

This report describes the riso project, a system for uniied prediction and diagnosis in HVAC systems based on a class of probabilistic models called belief networks. Progress has been made in both theoretical and practical problems: a scheme for the representation of belief networks with heterogeneous conditional distributions has been devised, an algorithm for inference in a polytree network w...

The interconnection of the power systems of the European Community (ENTSO-e) and of the Commonwealth of Independent States (IPS/UPS) arise several challenges for which regards the operation and the emergency control of a very geographically extended interconnected power system. Recent international projects on the possibility of interconnection considered the option of synchronous interconnecti...

This paper attempts to describe the advantages and disadvantages of different modelling approaches for design and performance evaluation of heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems for buildings. Merits and drawbacks of the various modelling methods are illustrated by case study material. Finally some conclusions and directions for future work are indicated. Ke ywords: building...