Citation
Willy Bernal, Madhur Behl, Truong X. Nghiem, Rahul Mangharam. "Campus-Wide Integrated Building Energy Simulation". ASHRAE--IBPSA-USA Building Simulation Conference, ASHRAE IBPSA USA, 11, September, 2014.

Abstract
Effective energy management for large campus facilities is becoming increasingly complex as such systems comprise of several hundred subsystems interconnected to each other. Building energy simulators like EnergyPlus are exceedingly good at modeling a single building equipped with a standalone HVAC equipment. However, the ability to simulate a large campus and to control the dynamics and interactions of the subsystems is limited or missing altogether. In this paper, we use the Matlab-EnergyPlus MLE+ tool we developed, to extend the capability of EnergyPlus to co-simulate a campus with multiple buildings connected to a chilled water distribution to a central chiller plant with control systems in Matlab. We present the details of how this simulation can be set-up and implemented using MLE+'s Matlab/Simulink block. We utilize the virtual campus test-bed to evaluate the performance of several demand response strategies. We also describe a coordinated demand response scheme which can lead to load curtailment during a demand response event while minimizing thermal discomfort.

Electronic downloads

• https://www.src.org/library/publication/p071817/. (Link to paper on SRC website.)
• http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~mbehl/pubs/mlep.pdf

• HTML

  Willy Bernal, Madhur Behl, Truong X. Nghiem, Rahul
  Mangharam. <a
  href="http://www.terraswarm.org/pubs/355.html"
  >Campus-Wide Integrated Building Energy
  Simulation</a>,  ASHRAE--IBPSA-USA Building Simulation
  Conference, ASHRAE IBPSA USA, 11, September, 2014.

• Plain text

  Willy Bernal, Madhur Behl, Truong X. Nghiem, Rahul
  Mangharam. "Campus-Wide Integrated Building Energy
  Simulation".  ASHRAE--IBPSA-USA Building Simulation
  Conference, ASHRAE IBPSA USA, 11, September, 2014.

• BibTeX

  @inproceedings{BernalBehlNghiemMangharam14_CampusWideIntegratedBuildingEnergySimulation,
      author = {Willy Bernal and Madhur Behl and Truong X. Nghiem
                and Rahul Mangharam},
      title = {Campus-Wide Integrated Building Energy Simulation},
      booktitle = { ASHRAE--IBPSA-USA Building Simulation Conference},
      organization = {ASHRAE IBPSA USA},
      day = {11},
      month = {September},
      year = {2014},
      abstract = {Effective energy management for large campus
                facilities is becoming increasingly complex as
                such systems comprise of several hundred
                subsystems interconnected to each other. Building
                energy simulators like EnergyPlus are exceedingly
                good at modeling a single building equipped with a
                standalone HVAC equipment. However, the ability to
                simulate a large campus and to control the
                dynamics and interactions of the subsystems is
                limited or missing altogether. In this paper, we
                use the Matlab-EnergyPlus MLE+ tool we developed,
                to extend the capability of EnergyPlus to
                co-simulate a campus with multiple buildings
                connected to a chilled water distribution to a
                central chiller plant with control systems in
                Matlab. We present the details of how this
                simulation can be set-up and implemented using
                MLE+'s Matlab/Simulink block. We utilize the
                virtual campus test-bed to evaluate the
                performance of several demand response strategies.
                We also describe a coordinated demand response
                scheme which can lead to load curtailment during a
                demand response event while minimizing thermal
                discomfort.},
      URL = {http://terraswarm.org/pubs/355.html}
  }
  

Posted by Madhur Behl on 1 Sep 2014.