Building Energy SimulationWhat is EnergyPlus? Principles of Modeling for CPS –Fall 2018 Madhur...

Lecture 5

Pr inc ip les of Model ing for Cyber-Phys ica l Systems

Instructor: Madhur Behl

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Building Energy Simulation

Introduction to EnergyPlus

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How to find the values of the parameters ?

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Previously..

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Given the disturbances and inputs, the model should predict the zone temperature.

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Parameter estimation is a search

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Need a good starting point to avoid local minima.

Compute nominal values of the parameters.

For our model:EnergyPlus == A real building

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What is EnergyPlus ?

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EnergyPlus is an energy analysis and thermal load simulation program

User Building DescriptionFile

Building energy simulation

Heating/Cooling Load Calculation

Data outputs

https://github.com/NREL/EnergyPlus

io files

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Weather data

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• Data include

• temperature,

• humidity,

• solar,

• wind,

• rain, and

• snow flags, etc.

• Hourly data typical, can be sub-hourly • Interpolated for EnergyPlus time steps

TMY: Typical Meteorological Year data

EnergyPlus workflow and building description

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Envelope Constructions, loadsschedules, etc.

HVAC templatesor custom systems

Run, compare, report, QAQC, and parametric

analysis

EnergyPlus –SimulationArchitecture

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More than an engine or a single tool

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• Whole building energy simulation.• Peak load calculation and equipment

design.• Sub-hourly, user-definable time steps.• Advanced fenestration models.• Illuminance and glare calculations.• Component-based HVAC.• Built-in HVAC and lighting control

strategies.• Functional Mockup Interface.• Standard summary and detailed output

reports.

Integrated simulation manager

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Building systems simulation manager

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Authoring tools: Third party interfaces

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Zone and Air System Integration

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Sum of convective

internal loads

Convective heat transfer

from zone surfaces

Infiltration of outside air

Inter zone air mixing

HVAC air system

Building envelope hierarchy

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Site>> Building

>> Zones>> Surfaces

>> Constructions>> Materials

Energy Plus Demo

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