Advanced controls on energy reliability, flexibility, resilience, and occupant-centric control for smart and energy-efficient buildings—a state-of-the-art review

Z Liu, X Zhang, Y Sun, Y Zhou - Energy and Buildings, 2023 - Elsevier
Advanced controls have attracted increasing interests due to the high requirement on smart
and energy-efficient (SEE) buildings and decarbonization in the building industry with …

[HTML][HTML] A comprehensive review of the applications of machine learning for HVAC

SL Zhou, AA Shah, PK Leung, X Zhu, Q Liao - DeCarbon, 2023 - Elsevier
Heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) accounts for around 40% of the total
building energy consumption. It has therefore become a major target for reductions, in terms …

How to improve the application potential of deep learning model in HVAC fault diagnosis: Based on pruning and interpretable deep learning method

Y Gao, S Miyata, Y Akashi - Applied Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Automated fault detection and diagnosis (AFDD) plays a crucial role in enhancing the
energy efficiency of air conditioning systems. Deep learning has emerged as a promising …

[HTML][HTML] An integrated framework for sustainable and efficient building maintenance operations aligning with climate change, SDGs, and emerging technology

A Hauashdh, S Nagapan, J Jailani, Y Gamil - Results in Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
Improving the operation and maintenance of buildings can significantly reduce carbon
emissions, energy consumption, and other environmental challenges while promoting …

Novel transformer-based self-supervised learning methods for improved HVAC fault diagnosis performance with limited labeled data

C Fan, Y Lei, Y Sun, L Mo - Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Existing data-driven HVAC fault diagnosis methods mainly adopt supervised learning
paradigms, making them less feasible/implementable for individual buildings with limited …

Techniques and technologies to board on the feasible renewable and sustainable energy systems

B Nastasi, N Markovska, T Puksec, N Duić… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper is the editorial for the virtual special issue (VSI) of Renewable and Sustainable
Energy Reviews (RSER) dedicated to the 16th Conference on Sustainable Development of …

Integrating active learning and semi-supervised learning for improved data-driven HVAC fault diagnosis performance

C Fan, Q Wu, Y Zhao, L Mo - Applied Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
Data-driven methods have drawn increasing interests in HVAC fault diagnosis tasks due to
their intrinsic advantages in making real-time automated decisions. To ensure the reliability …

A thermodynamic-law-integrated deep learning method for high-dimensional sensor fault detection in diverse complex HVAC systems

H Ren, C Xu, Y Lyu, Z Ma, Y Sun - Applied Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract In building Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems, sensor
healthy operation is the foundation of the adopted control strategies to improve building …

The impact of improved PCA method based on anomaly detection on chiller sensor fault detection

A Liang, Y Hu, G Li - International Journal of Refrigeration, 2023 - Elsevier
With the widespread use of building automation systems (BAS), a large amount of chiller
operating data is often readily available, which provides a good basis for optimizing the …

[HTML][HTML] Building thermal dynamics modeling with deep transfer learning using a large residential smart thermostat dataset

H Li, G Pinto, MS Piscitelli, A Capozzoli… - Engineering Applications of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Understanding thermal dynamics and obtaining the computational model of residential
buildings enable its scaled application in energy retrofits, control optimization and …