All you need to know about model predictive control for buildings

J Drgoňa, J Arroyo, IC Figueroa, D Blum… - Annual Reviews in …, 2020 - Elsevier
It has been proven that advanced building control, like model predictive control (MPC), can
notably reduce the energy use and mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. However, despite …

Advances in seasonal thermal energy storage for solar district heating applications: A critical review on large-scale hot-water tank and pit thermal energy storage …

A Dahash, F Ochs, MB Janetti, W Streicher - Applied energy, 2019 - Elsevier
Nowadays, buildings consume a large amount of conventional energy sources in European
countries and subsequently they contribute significantly to fossil fuels emissions. Therefore …

A review on optimized control systems for building energy and comfort management of smart sustainable buildings

PH Shaikh, NBM Nor, P Nallagownden… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2014 - Elsevier
Buildings all around the world consume a significant amount of energy, which is more or
less one-third of the total primary energy resources. This has raised concerns over energy …

Review of building energy modeling for control and operation

X Li, J Wen - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract Buildings consume about 41.1% of primary energy and 74% of the electricity in the
US Better or even optimal building energy control and operation strategies provide great …

A review of computational optimisation methods applied to sustainable building design

R Evins - Renewable and sustainable energy reviews, 2013 - Elsevier
This paper presents a comprehensive review of all significant research applying
computational optimisation to sustainable building design problems. A summary of common …

Algorithms for optimization of building design: A review

V Machairas, A Tsangrassoulis, K Axarli - Renewable and sustainable …, 2014 - Elsevier
Building design is quite a complicated task with the design team trying to counterbalance
various antagonistic parameters, which in turn are subject to various constraints. Due to this …

[HTML][HTML] A zone-level, building energy optimisation combining an artificial neural network, a genetic algorithm, and model predictive control

J Reynolds, Y Rezgui, A Kwan, S Piriou - Energy, 2018 - Elsevier
Buildings account for a substantial proportion of global energy consumption and global
greenhouse gas emissions. Given the growth in smart devices and sensors there is an …

Building operation and energy performance: Monitoring, analysis and optimisation toolkit

A Costa, MM Keane, JI Torrens, E Corry - Applied energy, 2013 - Elsevier
Buildings consume 40% of global primary energy and contribute to in excess of 30% CO2
emissions. The potential to save energy by systematic building management is known to be …

Demand reduction in building energy systems based on economic model predictive control

J Ma, J Qin, T Salsbury, P Xu - Chemical Engineering Science, 2012 - Elsevier
This paper proposes and demonstrates the effectiveness of an economic model predictive
control (MPC) technique in reducing energy and demand costs for building heating …

A hybrid model approach for forecasting future residential electricity consumption

B Dong, Z Li, SMM Rahman, R Vega - Energy and Buildings, 2016 - Elsevier
Urban energy management nowadays has put more focus on residential houses energy
consumption. Lots of machine learning based data-driven approaches have the abilities to …