Wei, Y (2019) Data-driven approaches for analysis of building energy consumption and indoor occupancy behavior. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham, UK.
Abstract
A recent surge of interest in building energy consumption has generated a tremendous amount of energy data, which boosts the data-driven algorithms for broad application throughout the building industry. In addition, occupancy behaviour is an important influencer of energy consumption in building. Currently the shallow understanding of occupancy has leaded to considerable performance gap between prediction and measurements of energy use. In this work, data-driven approach, mathematical approach and blind system identification model are developed to investigate building energy consumption and indoor occupancy behavior. As for the occupants'activeinfluence in building energy, we characterize residential appliance usage utilizing the K-means clustering approach through case studies and present the complex residential electricity behaviors in Shanghai. Similarly, the occupant'spassiverole also has impact on the building performance. Among different passive occupant behaviors, window opening action and occupant profile have been deeply investigated in our research. Furthermore, in order to identify the impact of occupancy behaviors on building energy, prediction models based on the artificial neural network (ANN) are established to predict the electricity consumption of the air-conditioning system at the next time step, the superiority of the ANN model with the supplementary input of estimated current occupancy is verified by comparing the ANN model results without the input occupancy. In summary, the proposed approaches provide a new and detailed way for engineers and building operators to better understand occupant behaviors and their impacts on building performance. Therefore, dedicated energy-prediction models with consideration of occupancy provide an opportunity to couple the electric grid and the building's control actions, and to be utilised by buildings and utility companies to simultaneously optimise their performance.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Doctoral) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | artificial neural network; building performance; energy consumption; measurement; neural network; occupancy; residential |
| Index terms: | engineer, case study, building energy consumption, occupant behaviour, system-identification, electricity consumption, energy use, clustering, building industry, energy consumption, prediction model, artificial neural network, building performance, neural network, Shanghai, performance gap, window |
| Subjects: | performance management, systems engineering, industry analysis, profession, data collection methods, modelling and simulation, sustainability and energy, prediction and forecasting, energy systems, artificial intelligence, data science, architectural elements, Geography, quality assurance, health behaviours and lifestyles |
| Topics: | Engineering Principles, Geographical Context, Sustainability, Quality Management, Research Practice, Roles and Professions, Digital Applications, Design Practice |
| Descriptive scope: | 4 PCEA |
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