Energy-use and indoor thermal performance in junior high school building after air-conditioning installation with the private finance initiative

D Sekartaji, Y Ryu, D Novianto, K Eto, W Gao - Buildings, 2023 - mdpi.com
Japan's government has adopted the “Private Finance Initiative (PFI)” as a project method
for monitoring “air-conditioning (AC)” performance after AC installation projects to overcome …

HVAC system modeling and control: Vapor compression system modeling and control

BP Rasmussen, C Price, J Koeln, B Keating… - … Control Systems: A …, 2018 - Springer
In this chapter, we delve deeper into understanding modeling and control approaches for
one of the important subsystems in an intelligent building, the HVAC system. Specifically …

Cascaded Control for Building HVAC Systems in Practice

C Price, D Park, BP Rasmussen - Buildings, 2022 - mdpi.com
Actuator hunting is a widespread and often neglected problem in the HVAC field. Hunting is
typically characterized by sustained or intermittent oscillations, and can result in decreased …

HVAC Nonlinearity Compensation Using Cascaded Control Architectures.

C Price, S Liang, B Rasmussen - ASHRAE Transactions, 2015 - search.ebscohost.com
Buildings consume a large percentage of energy used in the United States, with a significant
portion expended on heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning systems. These systems …

Multiscale modeling of in-room temperature distribution with human occupancy data: A practical case study

Y Kono, Y Susuki, M Hayashida, I Mezić… - Journal of Building …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
This paper develops a method for modelling of in-room temperature distribution
incorporated with data collected by human sensors. This modelling is based on a standard …

Optimal tuning of cascaded control architectures for nonlinear HVAC systems

C Price, BP Rasmussen - Science and Technology for the Built …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Cascaded controllers have been shown in recent literature to significantly reduce hunting
behavior and improve the performance of a variety of HVAC systems. The cascaded …

Improving the nonlinear control performance of the supply fan at air handling units using a gain scheduling control strategy

Z Wang, R Hurt, L Song, G Wang - Science and Technology for the …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Due to its nonlinear nature, the supply fan at air handling units with the controller tuned at
the design condition tends to be aggressive and oscillate under partial load conditions. The …

Evaluation of nonlinear control performance of air handling units under variable operation conditions using root distribution approach

Z Wang, R Hurt, CY Tang, L Song… - Science and Technology …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The control systems at Air handling units (AHUs) have nonlinear nature, resulting potentially
in sluggish, aggressive, or oscillatory responses under variable operation conditions. This …

Modeling of advective heat transfer in a practical building atrium via Koopman mode decomposition

Y Kono, Y Susuki, T Hikihara - The Koopman Operator in Systems and …, 2020 - Springer
This chapter develops a methodology for modeling of heat transfer dynamics in a building
atrium via Koopman mode decomposition (KMD). We address the phenomenon of heat …

A Methodology for Automating the Implementation of Advanced Control Algorithms Such as Model Predictive Control on Large Scale Building HVAC Systems

RH Chintala - 2018 - search.proquest.com
Building operations consume about 40% of the total energy consumption in the US, with
Heating Ventilation and Air-Conditioning (HVAC) comprising a significant portion of it. HVAC …