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Exploring the impact of model calibration on estimating energy savings through better space heating control

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posted on 2015-11-20, 09:19 authored by Dashamir Marini, Lynda Webb, G. Diamantis, Richard BuswellRichard Buswell
It is widely accepted that simulation tools need to be carefully configured with appropriate inputs to yield good estimates of building performance. Having a good representation of a building’s performance is particularly important when trying to generate a baseline against which energy savings are to be measured. This is especially challenging in residential buildings where there is a high dependency on occupant behaviour. Relevant data for domestic building is scarce and an option is to use existing guidelines published by organisations such as CIBSE or DOE. This paper considers the relative savings that might be expected by implementing several space heating control strategies, by evaluating the change in performance from a baseline model. The impact of calibrating the model on the results is given as is a description of the calibration approach used. It is demonstrated that potential energy savings can be either over or under predicted depending on the nature of the control strategy employed.

Funding

The work was funded through the TEDDI call managed by the RCUK Digital Economy and Energy programmes (EPSRC Grant Number EP/I000267/1).

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  • Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering

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Proceedings of Building Simulation and Optimization: Second Conference of IBPSA-England conference in association with CIBSE

Pages

1 - 8 (8)

Citation

MARINI, D. ... et al., 2014. Exploring the impact of model calibration on estimating energy savings through better space heating control. IN: Malki-Epsthein, L. ...et al. (eds.) Proceedings of the 2014 Building Simulation and Optimization Conference. UCL, London, 23-24 June.

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© The Authors. Published by IBPSA

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  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

2014

Notes

This is a conference paper.

ISBN

9780993013706

Language

  • en

Location

London

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