Abstract: Infiltration is customarily assumed to increase the heating and cooling load of a building by an amount equal to the mass flow rate of the infiltration times the enthalpy difference between ...

Abstract: This paper develops a four-parameter change-point model of energy consumption as a function of dry-bulb temperature, along with accompanying error diagnostics for the model’s parameters. The model ...

Abstract: This paper presents the physical models for the maximum potential thermal energy savings from optimizing the hot deck and cold deck reset schedules for dual duct variable air volume systems. ...

Abstract: This paper describes use of the Interzone Temperature Profile Estimation (or ITPE) technique, an analytical calculation procedure to predict heat transfer within earth in contact with a structure. ...

Abstract: A study of cubic splines and Fourier series as interpolation techniques for filling in missing hourly data in energy and meteorological time series data sets is presented. The procedure developed ...

Abstract: Continuous Commissioning (CCSM ) is an ongoing process to resolve operating problems, improve comfort, optimize energy use, and identify retrofits for existing commercial and institutional buildings ...