Ground characterization of building energy models

The calibration of building energy models is crucial for their use in some applications that depend on their accuracy for adequate performance, such as demand response and model predictive control (MPC). In general, energy models offer many possibilities/strategies when characterizing a construction...

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Autores: Gutiérrez-González, V. (Vicente)|||/items/834a7094-3f31-48d2-ab77-3ec0731da597, Ramos-Ruiz, G. (Germán)|||/items/59e7c82d-0d16-4e0a-9395-6275c3cd1dda, Fernández-Bandera, C. (Carlos)|||/items/50cb7ce6-2624-471a-ac5d-2da4e4bc57bb
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Navarra
Repositorio:Dadun. Depósito Académico Digital de la Universidad de Navarra
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:dadun.unav.edu:10171/63758
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10171/63758
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Ground characterization
EnergyPlus
Building energy model
BEM
Uncertainty analysis
Energy savings
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Sumario:The calibration of building energy models is crucial for their use in some applications that depend on their accuracy for adequate performance, such as demand response and model predictive control (MPC). In general, energy models offer many possibilities/strategies when characterizing a construction system, and such a characterization is key when analyzing both its thermal behavior and its energy impact. This research analyzes the different ways to characterize the thermal interaction of the building energy model (BEM) with the ground, comparing conventional approaches with new approaches based on both optimization of the former and dynamic ground characterizations. Using a model adjusted to a real case study, each of the existing options are analyzed, in which a different control of the ground temperature both in terms of its temporal oscillation and its location in the building (based on thermal zones) is taken into account. Exhaustive monitoring of a real building and measuring the ground and ground floor surface temperatures have made establishing which EnergyPlus components/objects best characterize the ground-slab interaction possible, both in terms of the simplicity of modeling and the cost (economic and technical) required for each of them. As will be seen, there are objects with an excellent cost/effectiveness ratio when characterizing the ground.