Energy and Comfort Management in Energy Efficient Buildings Using RETSCREEN Software-A Case Study Analysis

摘要

Smart and energy-efficient buildings have recently become a trend for future building industry. The maj or challenge in the control system design for such a building is to minimize the power consumption witho ut compromising the customers comfort. Buildings have the physical potential to harness diluted and sometimes unpredictable renewable energy. The building envelope and the ground constitute the basic resources for energy autonomous buildings. It is widely accepted that if any country has to reduce greenhouse gas emissions it must aggressively address energy end use in the building sector. Simulation o f building performance is increasingly being used in design practice to predict comfort of occupants in finished buildings. In this thesis, the simulatio n results shows that the proposed intelligent control system successfully manages the user's preferences for thermal and illuminance comfort, indoor air quality and the energy conservation by using RETSCREEN software. The present work attempts to overcome certain inadequacies o f contemporary simulation applications with respect to environmental control systems, by developing no vel building control systems modeling schemes. These schemes are then integrated within a state-of-art simulation environment so that they can be emplo yed in practice