Impact of zoning heating and air conditioning control systems in users comfort and energy efficiency in residential buildings

Hernández, Francisco Fernández; Suárez, José Miguel Peña; Cantalejo, Juan Antonio Bandera; Muriano, Mari Carmen González

doi:10.1016/j.enconman.2022.115954

Cited by 14 publications

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“…Still, challenges arise when upgrading technologies for greater efficiency, potentially causing greenhouse gas emissions without achieving essential long-term decreases [33]. Energy efficiency is crucial in managing demand, especially during peak grid demand [34]. Diverse passive strategies can reduce the influence of external weather conditions, such as extreme heat or cold, on the indoor environment.…”

Section: Energy Efficiency Measuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

Pathway to Sustainability: An Overview of Renewable Energy Integration in Building Systems

Reddy,

Hariram,

Ghazali

et al. 2024

Sustainability

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Decarbonizing the building sector is crucial for mitigating climate change, reducing carbon emissions, and achieving an energy production–consumption balance. This research aims to identify key design principles and strategies to enhance energy savings and analyze the integration potential of renewable energy sources (RES) such as solar, wind, geothermal, and biomass, providing in-depth technical exploration and evaluating current building developments. Moreover, the study also examines recent developments, explicitly focusing on integrating hybrid renewable energy systems, energy storage solutions, and AI-based technological innovations. Through comprehensive analysis and critical evaluation, this research provides valuable insights and practical recommendations for achieving building sustainability and advancing the transition towards a low-carbon built environment.

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Section: Energy Efficiency Measuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

Pathway to Sustainability: An Overview of Renewable Energy Integration in Building Systems

Reddy,

Hariram,

Ghazali

et al. 2024

Sustainability

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“…Past studies primarily focused on assessing and reducing the carbon footprint of the overall power system (Shi et al, 2023). However, current optimization scheduling of air conditioning systems often emphasizes improving user comfort (Hernández et al, 2022) and reducing electricity costs with relatively less attention given to their contribution to carbon emission reduction as referenced (Jung and Jazizadeh, 2019;Huang et al, 2022). Air conditioning systems have significant potential to reduce the cost of carbon source energy and lower overall energy costs.…”

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confidence: 99%

Multi-objective optimal scheduling considering low-carbon operation of air conditioner load with dynamic carbon emission factors

Shen,

Li,

Yin

et al. 2024

Front. Energy Res.

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As global temperatures rise and climate change becomes more severely. People realize that air conditioning systems as a controllable resource and play an increasingly important role in reducing carbon emissions. In the past, the operation optimization of air conditioning systems was mainly oriented to user comfort and electricity costs ignoring the long-term impact on the environment. This article aims to establish a multi-objective model of air-conditioning load to ensure user temperature comfort performance and reduce the total cost (i.e., electricity cost and carbon emission cost) simultaneously. Multi Sand Cat Swarm Optimization (MSCSO) algorithm combined with gray target decision-making (GTD) is used to explore optimal solution. Meanwhile four competitive strategies are applied to validate the effectiveness of the proposed method, i.e., genetic algorithm (GA), MSCSO-comfort objective, MSCSO-total electricity cost objective and unoptimization. The simulation results show that the MSCSO-GTD based objective method can significantly reduce total costs while taking into account appropriate indoor temperature comfort.

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“…Wang et al [17] proposed that the zoning system can adjust the working state of equipment according to user preferences to meet the heat demand of each area, monitor the air temperature, and ensure the thermal comfort in each area. Under the framework of this goal, compared with complex and expensive control systems, Herná ndez et al [18] proposed a new zone control system, which is based on the thermostat and electric damper, control board and communication gateway in each zone, allowing communication between the unit and control board to set operating parameters such as fan speed or air supply set point temperature. The results show that the thermal zoning control is helpful to adapt the thermal energy to each zone in a more effective way.…”

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Analysis of Time-Sharing and Zoning Heat Load Demand and Research on Heating Control of Large Heating Buildings

Zhu¹,

Zhou²,

Gao³

et al. 2022

IJHT

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It is of practical significance to analyze the time-sharing and zoning heat load demand and fine heating control of large heating buildings in order to reduce the building energy consumption. The existing research lacks the time-sharing and zoning form of refined heating for different functional zones of large heating buildings. For this reason, this paper carried out the time-sharing and zoning heat load demand analysis and research on heating control of large heating buildings. First, the mathematical model for the main heating links of the heating system of the large building based on the heat balance equation is constructed to realize the simulation of the dynamic change of the performance of the large building heating system. Then, the size, characteristics and influencing factors of heat load of various heating units in the building are analyzed, and three possible ways of mass regulation, mass-flow regulation and intermittent regulation that can change the flow by stages are introduced. The experimental results verify the effectiveness of the proposed heating control mode, which can effectively reduce the building heating energy consumption.

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Impact of zoning heating and air conditioning control systems in users comfort and energy efficiency in residential buildings

Cited by 14 publications

References 28 publications

Pathway to Sustainability: An Overview of Renewable Energy Integration in Building Systems

Pathway to Sustainability: An Overview of Renewable Energy Integration in Building Systems

Multi-objective optimal scheduling considering low-carbon operation of air conditioner load with dynamic carbon emission factors

Analysis of Time-Sharing and Zoning Heat Load Demand and Research on Heating Control of Large Heating Buildings

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