An optimal control strategy for complex building central chilled water systems for practical and real-time applications

Building and Environment

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1188-1198

  Ma, Zhenjun ^a   Wang, Shengwei ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Chilled water system; Energy efficiency; Online application; Optimal control

Indexed keywords

APPLICATIONS; BUILDINGS; DAMPING; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; INTERSECTIONS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; STRATEGIC PLANNING; TALL BUILDINGS; TERNARY SYSTEMS; VIRTUAL REALITY; WATER COOLING SYSTEMS; WATER PIPING SYSTEMS; WATERWORKS;

AIR-CONDITIONING SYSTEMS; CHILLED WATER SYSTEM; COMPLEX BUILDINGS; CONTROL SETTINGS; CONTROL STRATEGIES; COST EFFECTIVES; COST ESTIMATORS; DYNAMIC CHARACTERISTICS; ENERGY-EFFICIENT; FIELD APPLICATIONS; LOCAL CONTROL STRATEGIES; MODEL-BASED; ON-LINE CONTROLS; ONLINE APPLICATION; OPTIMAL CONTROL; OPTIMAL CONTROL STRATEGIES; OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES; PERFORMANCE PREDICTORS; PROCESS ENVIRONMENTS; REAL-TIME APPLICATIONS; ROBUST OPERATIONS; SIMPLIFIED MODELS; SUBSYSTEM LEVELS; SUPER HIGH-RISE BUILDINGS; SYSTEM LEVELS; VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS;

PLANNING;

AIR CONDITIONING; BUILDING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL SYSTEM; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; MODEL VALIDATION; OPTIMIZATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; REAL TIME;

EID: 60249097825     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2008.08.011     Document Type: Article

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