Effect of different building envelope materials on thermal comfort and air-conditioning energy savings: A case study in Basra city, Iraq

RZ Homod, A Almusaed, A Almssad, MK Jaafar… - Journal of Energy …, 2021 - Elsevier
Recently, a numerous number of houses has been built using AAC materials, which
consume the most amount of energy in the building sector by Heating, ventilation, and air …

[HTML][HTML] Peer-to-peer energy trading for demand response of residential smart electric storage water heaters

DH Clift, KN Hasan, G Rosengarten - Applied Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
Environmental concerns and emission reduction targets are driving a transition from fossil
fuel to renewable-based electricity generation. However, intermittent and distributed …

Dynamics analysis of a novel hybrid deep clustering for unsupervised learning by reinforcement of multi-agent to energy saving in intelligent buildings

RZ Homod, H Togun, AK Hussein, FN Al-Mousawi… - Applied Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
The heating, ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC) systems energy demand can be
reduced by manipulating indoor conditions within the comfort range, which relates to control …

Evaluation of energy-saving potential for optimal time response of HVAC control system in smart buildings

RZ Homod, KS Gaeid, SM Dawood, A Hatami… - Applied Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
In some fields, such as the semiconductor manufacturing process, museum, pharmaceutical,
and medicine manufacturing industry, the HVAC system needs a very fast response time to …

Deep clustering of cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning to optimize multi chiller HVAC systems for smart buildings energy management

RZ Homod, ZM Yaseen, AK Hussein… - Journal of Building …, 2023 - Elsevier
Chillers are responsible for almost half of the total energy demand in buildings. Hence, the
obligation of control systems of multi-chiller due to changes indoor environments is one of …

Analysis and optimization of HVAC control systems based on energy and performance considerations for smart buildings

RZ Homod - Renewable Energy, 2018 - Elsevier
The most distinctive properties of the HVAC systems are their large-scale nonlinear systems
that contain large thermal inertia, time variability, nonlinear constraints, uncertain …

[HTML][HTML] Assessment of advanced demand response value streams for water heaters in renewable-rich electricity markets

DH Clift, C Stanley, KN Hasan, G Rosengarten - Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Water heating is a significant domestic load, representing∼ 25% of total household energy
consumption in developed countries. This study considers domestic electric storage water …

A novel hybrid modelling structure fabricated by using Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy to forecast HVAC systems energy demand in real-time for Basra city

RZ Homod, H Togun, HJ Abd, KSM Sahari - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract the HVAC systems consume more than half of the total buildings energy demand,
forecasting the cooling/heating load of the building is important to predict buildings energy …

A survey of computational intelligence techniques for air-conditioners energy management

B Rajasekhar, W Tushar, C Lork, Y Zhou… - … on Emerging Topics …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Effective design of air-conditioner (AC) management system has the potential to reduce the
cost of electricity consumption and help users to participate in demand response (DR) …

[PDF][PDF] Automatic Control for HVAC System

RZ Homod - 2009 - researchgate.net
The modelling of the Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) system is a
prominent topic because of its relationship with Energy savings, environmental, economical …