Advances in near-optimal control of passive building thermal storage

Journal of Solar Energy Engineering, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 132, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 0210091-0210099

  Henze, Gregor P ^a   Florita, Anthony R ^a   Brandemuehl, Michael J ^a   Felsmann, Clemens ^b   Cheng, Hwakong ^c  

^a UCB 450   (United States)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c Taylor Engineering LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDING PARAMETERS; BUILDING TYPES; CLIMATE VARIATION; COMMERCIAL BUILDING; CONTROL STRATEGIES; FULL FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; IN-BUILDINGS; NEAR-OPTIMAL CONTROL; OPTIMAL CONTROLS; OPTIMAL STRATEGIES; PASSIVE BUILDINGS; PEAK ELECTRICAL DEMAND; RATE STRUCTURE; SIMPLIFIED CONTROL STRATEGY; SIMULATION AND OPTIMIZATION; THERMAL MASS; THERMAL STORAGE;

CONTROL; ELECTRIC CONVERTERS; HEAT STORAGE; OFFICE BUILDINGS; OPERATING COSTS; OPTIMIZATION; UTILITY RATES;

CLIMATE CONTROL;

EID: 77955193591     PISSN: 01996231     EISSN: 15288986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4001466     Document Type: Article

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