Framework to assess climate change impact on heating and cooling energy demands in building stock: A case study of Belgium in 2050 and 2100

E Elnagar, S Gendebien, E Georges, U Berardi… - Energy and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Climate change has a broad impact on different aspects of energy use in buildings. This
study explores potential changes in future heating and cooling energy demands. Increasing …

[HTML][HTML] Occupant-oriented demand response with multi-zone thermal building control

M Frahm, T Dengiz, P Zwickel, H Maaß, J Matthes… - Applied Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
In future energy systems with high shares of renewable energy sources, the electricity
demand of buildings has to react to the fluctuating electricity generation in view of stability …

How to derive and implement a minimalistic RC model from thermodynamics for the control of thermal parameters for assuring thermal comfort in buildings

M Frahm, F Langner, P Zwickel… - 2022 Open Source …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems of buildings account for a major
part of global energy demand and HVAC optimization offers significant potential to improve …

A physics-based domain adaptation framework for modeling and forecasting building energy systems

ZX Conti, R Choudhary, L Magri - Data-Centric Engineering, 2023 - cambridge.org
State-of-the-art machine-learning-based models are a popular choice for modeling and
forecasting energy behavior in buildings because given enough data, they are good at …

Demand response in smart districts: Model predictive control of building cooling

P Zwickel, M Frahm, J Galenzowski… - 2022 IEEE PES …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The present paper develops and compares three different Model Predictive Control (MPC)
strategies for Demand Response (DR) of building cooling in a" smart district": Decentralized …

Leveraging Grey Box Models for Enhanced Energy Flexibility in Centralized and Decentralized Single-Zone Multi-Node Systems

OB Mulayim, M Bergés - 2024 IEEE International Conference …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The effectiveness of residential energy flexibility (EF) largely depends on maintaining
occupant comfort to prevent the rendering of events ineffective through overrides. Model …