Application of economic MPC to the energy and demand minimization of a commercial building

Journal of Process Control

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1282-1291

  Ma, Jingran ^a   Qin, S Joe ^a,c   Salsbury, Timothy ^b  

^a University of Southern California   (United States)

^b JOHNSON CONTROLS INC   (United States)

^c THE CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (China)

Author keywords

Building; Economic model predictive control; Field tests; HVAC; Optimization; Simulation

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; COSTS; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL; OFFICE BUILDINGS; OPTIMIZATION;

COMMERCIAL BUILDING; ECONOMIC MODELING; ECONOMIC OBJECTIVE FUNCTION; FIELD TEST; HVAC; INTERNET-BASED CONTROL; MIN-MAX OPTIMIZATION; SIMULATION;

PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 84905756014     PISSN: 09591524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jprocont.2014.06.011     Document Type: Article

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