Campus-Wide Integrated Building Energy Simulation
Bernal Willy, Madhur Behl, Truong X. Nghiem, Rahul Mangharam

Citation
Bernal Willy, Madhur Behl, Truong X. Nghiem, Rahul Mangharam. "Campus-Wide Integrated Building Energy Simulation". IBPSA Building Simulation Conference, International Building Performance Simulation (ed.), December, 2015.

Abstract
Effective energy management for large campus facilities is becoming increasingly complex as modern heating and cooling 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.

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  Bernal Willy, Madhur Behl, Truong X. Nghiem, Rahul
  Mangharam. <a
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  International Building Performance Simulation (ed.),
  December, 2015.

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  Bernal Willy, Madhur Behl, Truong X. Nghiem, Rahul
  Mangharam. "Campus-Wide Integrated Building Energy
  Simulation". IBPSA Building Simulation Conference,
  International Building Performance Simulation (ed.),
  December, 2015.

• BibTeX

  @inproceedings{WillyBehlNghiemMangharam15_CampusWideIntegratedBuildingEnergySimulation,
      author = {Bernal Willy and Madhur Behl and Truong X. Nghiem
                and Rahul Mangharam},
      title = {Campus-Wide Integrated Building Energy Simulation},
      booktitle = {IBPSA Building Simulation Conference},
      editor = {International Building Performance Simulation},
      month = {December},
      year = {2015},
      abstract = {Effective energy management for large campus
                facilities is becoming increasingly complex as
                modern heating and cooling 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/699.html}
  }
  

Posted by Madhur Behl on 19 Nov 2015.