[HTML][HTML] A comparative study of PSO-ANN, GA-ANN, ICA-ANN, and ABC-ANN in estimating the heating load of buildings' energy efficiency for smart city planning

LT Le, H Nguyen, J Dou, J Zhou - Applied Sciences, 2019 - mdpi.com
Energy-efficiency is one of the critical issues in smart cities. It is an essential basis for
optimizing smart cities planning. This study proposed four new artificial intelligence (AI) …

An ANN-based fast building energy consumption prediction method for complex architectural form at the early design stage

Z Li, J Dai, H Chen, B Lin - Building Simulation, 2019 - Springer
How to control the growth of building energy consumption and achieve the goal of energy
saving and emission reduction while ensuring people's growing demand for indoor comfort …

[HTML][HTML] Multi-objective optimization of energy consumption and surface quality in nanofluid SQCL assisted face milling

AM Khan, M Jamil, K Salonitis, S Sarfraz, W Zhao, N He… - Energies, 2019 - mdpi.com
Considering the significance of improving the energy efficiency, surface quality and material
removal quantity of machining processes, the present study is conducted in the form of an …

[HTML][HTML] Predicting heating load in energy-efficient buildings through machine learning techniques

H Moayedi, DT Bui, A Dounis, Z Lyu, LK Foong - Applied Sciences, 2019 - mdpi.com
The heating load calculation is the first step of the iterative heating, ventilation, and air
conditioning (HVAC) design procedure. In this study, we employed six machine learning …

[HTML][HTML] Real time energy performance control for industrial compressed air systems: Methodology and applications

M Benedetti, F Bonfà, V Introna, A Santolamazza… - Energies, 2019 - mdpi.com
Most manufacturing and process industries require compressed air to such an extent that in
Europe, for instance, about 10% of the total electrical energy consumption of industries is …

A data envelopment analysis (DEA) model for building energy benchmarking

B Ashuri, J Wang, M Shahandashti… - Journal of Engineering …, 2019 - emerald.com
Purpose Building energy benchmarking is required for adopting an energy certification
scheme, promoting energy efficiency and reducing energy consumption. It demonstrates the …

Cooling load estimation using machine learning techniques

K Zingre, S Srinivasan, M Marzband - 2019 - nrl.northumbria.ac.uk
Estimating cooling loads in heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems is a
complex task. This is mainly due to its dependence on numerous factors which are both …

[HTML][HTML] A novel method for nZEB internal coverings design based on neural networks

JA Orosa, D Vergara, ÁM Costa, R Bouzón - Coatings, 2019 - mdpi.com
Research from the International Energy Agency about indoor ambiences and nearly zero
energy buildings (nZEB) in the past has been centred on different aspects such as the …