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Title: | Experimental study of model predictive control for an air-conditioning system with dedicated outdoor air system | Authors: | Yang, Shiyu Wan, Man Pun Ng, Bing Feng Dubey, Swapnil Henze, Gregor P. Chen, Wanyu Baskaran, Krishnamoorthy |
Keywords: | Engineering::Mechanical engineering | Issue Date: | 2020 | Source: | Yang, S., Wan, M. P., Ng, B. F., Dubey, S., Henze, G. P., Chen, W. & Baskaran, K. (2020). Experimental study of model predictive control for an air-conditioning system with dedicated outdoor air system. Applied Energy, 257, 113920-. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2019.113920 | Project: | NRF2015ENC-GBICRD001-020 | Journal: | Applied Energy | Abstract: | Using separate cooling coils for sensible and latent loads provide extra control flexibility to optimise the energy efficiency and comfort in air-conditioning and mechanical ventilation (ACMV) systems. A popular implementation of such technology is dedicated outdoor air system (DOAS)-assisted separate sensible and latent cooling (SSLC) systems. However, a sophisticated control technique is needed to coordinate the control of multiple cooling coils in such systems. This paper presents a novel model predictive control (MPC) developed for a DOAS-assisted SSLC system. The MPC adopts a linear state-space model that captures building thermodynamics, thermal comfort and ACMV for building response prediction and optimization. Subsequently, a multi-objective cost function is employed to optimize energy use and thermal comfort while fulfilling constraints of predicted mean vote (PMV) (-0.5, 0.5) and relative humidity (0%, 65%) in buildings. The performance of the MPC for controlling a conventional single-coil air-handling unit (AHU) system and a DOAS-assisted SSLC system is experimentally investigated and compared to a conventional feedback-control-based building management system (BMS). The MPC system achieved 18% and 20% electricity savings for the single-coil AHU and DOAS-assisted SSLC, respectively, as compared to the BMS controlled single-coil AHU. Furthermore, indoor thermal comfort is significantly improved, compared to the BMS. DOAS-assisted SSLC is shown to be advantageous compared to single-coil AHU to achieve better indoor environment in terms of thermal comfort and humidity, when both systems are controlled by MPC. | URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/155379 | ISSN: | 0306-2619 | DOI: | 10.1016/j.apenergy.2019.113920 | Schools: | School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering | Research Centres: | Energy Research Institute @ NTU (ERI@N) | Rights: | © 2019 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. This paper was published in Applied Energy and is made available with permission of Elsevier Ltd. | Fulltext Permission: | open | Fulltext Availability: | With Fulltext |
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