Abstract: In contrast to building energy conversion equipment, less improvement has been achieved in thermal energy distribution, storage and control systems in terms of energy efficiency and peak load ...

Abstract: A simplified ice storage system model was developed in which the icemaking mode is reflected by a higher power consumption per unit cooling than in chilled-water mode. The performance of four ...

Abstract: This paper surveys past and current research of optimal control for central chilled water plants with ice thermal energy storage. The motivation for thermal energy storage in commercial buildings ...

Abstract: This paper describes an investigation of the economic performance of a central chiller plant with thermal energy storage (TES) operating in a hotel in California and an office building in Wisconsin for the following three ...

Abstract: This paper describes a macroanalytic approach to energy management in buildings. Conventionally, energy improvement measures are designed and deployed in buildings, expecting and typically achieving energy savings from ...

Abstract: This paper describes an investigation of machine learning for supervisory control of active and passive thermal storage capacity in buildings. Previous studies show that the utilization of active ...

Abstract: This paper investigates adaptive optimal control of a grid-independent photovoltaic system consisting of a collector, storage, and a load. The control algorithm is based on Q-Learning, a model-free ...

Abstract: Cooling of commercial buildings contributes significantly to the peak demand placed on an electrical utility grid. Time-of-use electricity rates encourage shifting of electrical loads to off-peak ...

Abstract: It has been shown that a neural network with sufficient hidden units can approximate any continuous function defined on a closed and bounded set. This has inspired the use of neural networks ...

Abstract: Low delta T syndrome, that is, the operation at low differences between supply and return chilled-water temperatures, increases the energy consumption of chilled-water systems. Numerous causes of low delta T lie at the ...