As one of the most important and advanced technology for carbon-mitigation in the building
sector, building performance simulation (BPS) has played an increasingly important role …

Buildings consume a large amount of energy across all sectors of society, and a large
proportion of building energy is used by HVAC systems to provide a comfortable and healthy …

In HVAC control problems, model-based optimal control methods have been extensively
studied and verified by many researchers, but they highly depend on the accuracy of the …

A chiller plant with a water-side economizer (WSE) system is an environmental technology
that utilizes the low-grade natural cooling source to optimize the cooling supply and reduce …

The performance of model predictive control can be significantly affected by different choices
of controller parameters such as the time intervals for model discretization and control …

Heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems contribute to a major portion of
energy consumption in buildings. Real-time optimal control is an efficient tool to improve the …

In the domain of optimal control for building HVAC systems, the performance of model-
based control has been widely investigated and validated. However, the performance of …

Various studies have been conducted to develop energy efficient measures for chiller plants.
In these studies, much attention has been paid to equipment retrofits and various optimal …

While equation-based object-oriented modeling language Modelica can evaluate practical
energy improvements for district cooling systems, few have adopted Modelica for this type of …

There are several cooling mode control sequences for chiller plants with water-side
economizers adopted in industry and academia, and it is widely known that this supervisory …