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Showing 1 to 20 of 62 for “"Energy Simulation"”.
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Performance comparison of U.K. low-energy cooling systems by energy simulation
Building energy simulation is an important tool for evaluating the energy consumption of a building and can provide guidance in the design of a building and its mechanical systems. EnergyPlus is a new energy simulation program meant to be a major advance over existing energy simulation programs. …
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Development of an integrated building energy simulation with optimal central plant control
The purpose of computer-based building energy analysis programs is to assist heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) engineers in the design process and to help researchers develop more effective and efficient methods of controlling a building's environment. One such program is BLAST …
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The MIT Design Advisor : simple and rapid energy simulation of early-stage building designs
Simulation tools, when applied early in the design process, can considerably reduce the energy demand of newly constructed buildings. For a simulation tool to assist with design, it must be easy to use, provide feedback quickly, and allow rapid comparisons. Most existing tools do not meet these …
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Developing an integrated building design tool by coupling building energy simulation and computational fluid dynamics programs
Building energy simulation (ES) and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) can play important roles in building design by providing essential information to help design energy-efficient, thermally comfortable and healthy buildings. However, separate applications of ES and CFD usually cannot give an …
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A dynamic energy modelling approach to low energy ship design
… limited effort has been expended to improve the energy efficiency of ships due to the relatively low price of fuel oil and lack of stringent environmental regulations. However, the ever-growing intercontinental trade has resulted in an increase of greenhouse gas emissions from ships that …
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EnergyPlus Simulation of Single-Coil Twin-Fan Air Conditioning System
… was to describe the development of a building energy simulation to show the potential energy performance of the newly-developed Single-Coil Twin-Fan (SCTF) air conditioning system. The objectives of this project were to develop a customized module of the energy efficient SCTF system, validate …
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A data-centric stochastic model for simulation of occupant-related energy demand in buildings
… will also need to be a significant reduction in energy demand. The built environment offers opportunities for demand reduction that can help to achieve the necessary targets. For buildings yet to be built there is a real opportunity to design low-energy environments, but the existing building …
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A BIM-based Interoperability Platform in Support of Building Operation and Energy Management
Building energy efficiency is progressively becoming a crucial topic in the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) sector. Energy management tools have been developed to promise appropriate energy savings. Building energy simulation (BES) is a tool mainly used to analyze and compare the …
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Influence of occupant's behaviour on indoor environmental quality and energy consumptions
… sufficient to face great challenges of saving energy while still maintaining or even improving current comfort levels. Buildings are engineered using tested components and generally reliable systems whereas people can be unreliable, variable, and perhaps even irrational. The studies in …
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ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF TACTICAL MISSION PROFILES ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF POWER PREDICTION SOFTWARE
… United States Marine Corps (USMC) Expeditionary Energy Office (E2O) needs to conduct an analysis of small unit power requirements. This study assesses both current and future (approx. 2024) small unit configurations, and the impact that operational conditions and tactical scenarios have on power …
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Enabling energy efficiency for low-income housing in Developing countries using MIT Design Advisor
There is a great need to improve energy efficiency of low-income housing, since people who can afford it least have to pay a significant portion of their income to make their homes more habitable or else live with greater health and environmental risks. One of the main barriers to improving energy …
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An Assessment Of Forcite Approaches In Predictiing Young’s Modulus From Crystal Structure
… limited. Methods based on the potential surface energy simulation are fast but their accuracy has not been systematically evaluated using a large set of crystals. The goal of the current study was to evaluate accuracy of predicted Young’s modulus (E) using the Forcite module in commercial …
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Modeling urban energy supply schemes
… and cities to use economical, low-carbon energy supply strategies. This manuscript details efforts to develop an integrated energy supply and demand analysis tool to help urban planners and designers evaluate and compare schemes to satisfy the electric, heating, and cooling demands of …
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Urban building energy modeling and retrofit design as a means to inform effective public policy : Boston case study
… buildings use upwards of 20% of the total energy consumed annually in the United States. This, coupled with the desire to reduce overall utility costs and improve occupant comfort on the part of residents, places cities, as the main catalyst for local energy policy, at the forefront of the …
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Machine learning paradigms for building energy performance simulations
… to overcome a technical limitation of building energy performance simulations, the computation time, by using surrogate modeling, a class of supervised machine learning techniques where the output is a performance metric. Though early machine learning methods were introduced decades ago, the …
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Heating, ventilating and air-conditioning system energy demand coupling with building loads for office buildings.
… UK building stock accounts for about half of all energy consumed in the UK. A large portion of the energy is consumed by nondomestic buildings. Offices and retail are the most energy intensive typologies within the nondomestic building sector, typically accounting for over 50% of the nondomestic …
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Validation of a building simulation tool for predictive control in energy management systems
… are responsible for a significant portion of energy consumption worldwide. Intelligent buildings have been devised as a potential solution, where energy consumption and building use are harmonised. At the heart of the intelligent building is the building energy management system (BEMS), the …
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Data-driven models to evaluate root causes of energy performance gaps in office buildings
… and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems utilizing energy modeling tools with forecasted occupancy, plug load, and operational profiles as inputs. Their expected performance is often not met due to discrepancies between modeled and actual energy behaviors resulting in energy performance gaps. Energy …
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Comparison of simplified models of urban climate for improved prediction of building energy use in cities
Thermal simulation of buildings is a requisite tool in the design of low-energy buildings, yet, definition of weather boundary conditions during simulation of urban buildings suffers from a lack of data that accounts for the UHI effect. To overcome barriers preventing the use of more representative …
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A Bio-inspired Solution to Mitigate Urban Heat Island Effects
Over the last decade, rapidly growing world energy consumption is leading to supply difficulties, exhaustion of fossil energy resources, and global environmental deterioration. More than one-third of energy expenditure is attributable to buildings. Urbanization is intensifying these trends with …
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