A study of the importance of occupancy to building cooling load in prediction by intelligent approach

SSK Kwok, EWM Lee - Energy Conversion and Management, 2011 - Elsevier
Building cooling load prediction is one of the key factors in the success of energy-saving
measures. Many computational models available in the industry today have been developed …

An intelligent approach to assessing the effect of building occupancy on building cooling load prediction

SSK Kwok, RKK Yuen, EWM Lee - Building and Environment, 2011 - Elsevier
Building cooling load prediction is one of the key factors in the success of energy-saving
measures. Many computational models available in the industry have been developed from …

The use of occupancy space electrical power demand in building cooling load prediction

MC Leung, CF Norman, LL Lai, TT Chow - Energy and Buildings, 2012 - Elsevier
This paper presents an investigation into the use of occupancy space electrical power
demand to mimic occupants' activities in building cooling load prediction by intelligent …

Deployment of data-mining short and medium-term horizon cooling load forecasting models for building energy optimization and management

T Ahmad, H Chen, J Shair, C Xu - International Journal of Refrigeration, 2019 - Elsevier
In this study, data-mining techniques comprising three forecasting algorithms for accurate
and precise cooling load requirement prediction in the building environment, with the …

Analysis of hourly cooling load prediction accuracy with data-mining approaches on different training time scales

C Fan, Y Ding, Y Liao - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2019 - Elsevier
Data-mining approaches for improving building cooling load predictions are presented and
analyzed on different training time scales (T-1 to T-6) in this paper. Multiple linear regression …

Effect of input variables on cooling load prediction accuracy of an office building

Y Ding, Q Zhang, T Yuan, F Yang - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2018 - Elsevier
Data-driven models have been widely used for building cooling load prediction. However,
the prediction accuracy depends not only on prediction models, but also on the selection of …

Forecasting diurnal cooling energy load for institutional buildings using Artificial Neural Networks

C Deb, LS Eang, J Yang, M Santamouris - Energy and Buildings, 2016 - Elsevier
This study presents a methodology to forecast diurnal cooling load energy consumption for
institutional buildings using data driven techniques. The cases for three institutional …

Development and validation of a simplified online cooling load prediction strategy for a super high-rise building in Hong Kong

Y Sun, S Wang, F Xiao - Energy Conversion and Management, 2013 - Elsevier
Cooling load prediction is important and essential for many building energy efficient
controls, such as morning start control of chiller plant. However, most of the existing methods …

Research on short-term and ultra-short-term cooling load prediction models for office buildings

Y Ding, Q Zhang, T Yuan - Energy and Buildings, 2017 - Elsevier
Building cooling load predictions can be used to better understand energy demands and to
improve the energy efficiency of HVAC systems. In this study, GA-SVR and GA-WD-SVR …

Re-evaluation of building cooling load prediction models for use in humid subtropical area

Z Li, G Huang - Energy and Buildings, 2013 - Elsevier
For buildings in subtropical area with negligible heating load, prediction of short term
building cooling load is of critical importance to achieve the energy saving target. However …