This paper proposes and demonstrates the effectiveness of an economic model predictive control (MPC) technique in reducing energy and demand costs for building heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems. A simulated multi-zone commercial building equipped with of variable air volume (VAV) cooling system is built in Energyplus. With the introduced Building Controls Virtual Test Be...

Submitted: Jul 28, 2013; Accepted: Sep 6, 2013; Published: Sep 11, 2013 Abstract: Poultry is the ever-growing food industry in Pakistan and to keep up with the demand of meat it is essential to increase its productivity. The most influencing factors in this regard are the design and orientation of shedsasthey playvitalrole for energy conservation, heating and cooling distribution with controlle...

To curtail data centers’ huge cooling power consumption and water demand (for cooling), air-side economizer has been increasingly adopted to cool down servers. Recently, another sustainability practice, rainwater harvesting, has also seen a growing adoption in data centers, potentially leading to water self-sufficiency without connecting to water utilities to supply cooling water. Nonetheless, ...

A research project of the Hamburg University of Technology realizes an open cycle desiccant assisted air conditioning system based on renewable heat sources e.g. solar thermal and heat sinks e.g. shallow geothermal energy. Both advantages of the open cycle process are taken into account, the possible use of a heat sink at higher temperatures and the use of low calorific heat. Moreover, the tota...

The main objective of this investigation was to design and investigate a radiant panel cooling system on small scale building type (office) under the central Sudan climatic conditions so as to explore the benefits of radiant cooling systems over conventional air conditioning systems (Variable air volume systems). Transient heat conduction of building (finite difference method) was used to evalu...

Electricity production in Lebanon stands at around 1.5 GW while the demand exceeds 2.5 GW at peak times and peak cooling demands, resulting in rationing cuts from between 3 to 20 hours a day which is the worst performance in the Middle East. Due to the country energy shortfall, a large number of small-scale backup generators is installed to address the electric and cooling needs. The proliferat...

In recent years, the shipping industry has faced an increasing number of challenges in terms of fluctuating fuel prices, stricter environmental regulations, and concerns about global warming. In this situation, passenger volumes on cruise ships have increased from around 4 million to 13 million from 1990 to 2008 and keep growing today. A small cruise ship can emit about 85 tons of CO2 per day, ...

Decreasing technology sizes in conjunction with increasing demand for real time processing of audio and video data has resulted in cooling problems for IC's. Therefore, the area of low power design is no longer confined to portable applications or "green machines" only. In order to meet these new design constrains new design metrologies have to be used.

In this study, a new proposed multi-generation system as a promising integrated energy conversion system is studied, and its performance is investigated thermodynamically. The system equipped with parabolic trough collectors and biomass combustor to generate electricity, heating and cooling loads, hydrogen and potable water. A double effect absorption chiller to provide cooling demand, a proton...