A bottom-up and procedural calibration method for building energy simulation models based on hourly electricity submetering data

Energy

Volumn 93, Issue , 2015, Pages 2337-2350

  Ji, Ying ^a   Xu, Peng ^a  

^a TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Building energy simulation models; Calibration; Cooling heating load; Submetering data

Indexed keywords

AIR CONDITIONING; ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; BUILDINGS; CALIBRATION; CLIMATE CONTROL; COOLING SYSTEMS; OFFICE BUILDINGS;

BUILDING ENERGY SIMULATIONS; BUILDING OPERATIONS; COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; ELECTRICITY-CONSUMPTION; OPERATING PARAMETERS; STANDARD PROCEDURES; SUBMETERING; VENTILATION AND AIR CONDITIONING;

STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; BOTTOM-UP APPROACH; CALIBRATION; COOLING; DATA ACQUISITION; ELECTRICAL POWER; ENERGY USE; HEATING; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 84957930657     PISSN: 03605442     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2015.10.109     Document Type: Article

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