Simplified model to predict the thermal demand profile of districts
Extensive research works have been carried out over the past few decades in the development of simulation tools to predict the thermal performance of buildings. These validated tools have been used in the design of the building and its components. However, limited simulation tools have been develope...
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| author | Talebi, Behrang Haghighat, Fariborz Mirzaei, Parham A. |
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| description | Extensive research works have been carried out over the past few decades in the development of simulation tools to predict the thermal performance of buildings. These validated tools have been used in the design of the building and its components. However, limited simulation tools have been developed for modeling of district energy systems, which can potentially be a very laborious and time-consuming process. Besides many associated limitations, providing a realistic demand profile of the district energy systems is not a straightforward task due to high number of parameters involved in predicting a detail demand profile.
This paper reports the development of a simplified model for predicting the thermal demand profile of a district heating system. The paper describes the method used to develop two types of simplified models to predict the thermal load of a variety of buildings (residential, office, attached, detached, etc.). The predictions were also compared with those made by the detailed simulation models.
The simplified model was then utilized to predict the energy demand of a variety of districts types (residential, commercial or mix), and its prediction accuracy was compared with those made by detailed model: good agreement was observed between the results. |
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| spelling | nottingham-439012020-05-04T18:50:14Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/43901/ Simplified model to predict the thermal demand profile of districts Talebi, Behrang Haghighat, Fariborz Mirzaei, Parham A. Extensive research works have been carried out over the past few decades in the development of simulation tools to predict the thermal performance of buildings. These validated tools have been used in the design of the building and its components. However, limited simulation tools have been developed for modeling of district energy systems, which can potentially be a very laborious and time-consuming process. Besides many associated limitations, providing a realistic demand profile of the district energy systems is not a straightforward task due to high number of parameters involved in predicting a detail demand profile. This paper reports the development of a simplified model for predicting the thermal demand profile of a district heating system. The paper describes the method used to develop two types of simplified models to predict the thermal load of a variety of buildings (residential, office, attached, detached, etc.). The predictions were also compared with those made by the detailed simulation models. The simplified model was then utilized to predict the energy demand of a variety of districts types (residential, commercial or mix), and its prediction accuracy was compared with those made by detailed model: good agreement was observed between the results. Elsevier 2017-06-15 Article PeerReviewed Talebi, Behrang, Haghighat, Fariborz and Mirzaei, Parham A. (2017) Simplified model to predict the thermal demand profile of districts. Energy and Buildings, 145 . pp. 213-225. ISSN 1872-6178 Simulation tool; District system; Community; Demand profile http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378778817302104 doi:10.1016/j.enbuild.2017.03.062 doi:10.1016/j.enbuild.2017.03.062 |
| spellingShingle | Simulation tool; District system; Community; Demand profile Talebi, Behrang Haghighat, Fariborz Mirzaei, Parham A. Simplified model to predict the thermal demand profile of districts |
| title | Simplified model to predict the thermal demand profile of districts |
| title_full | Simplified model to predict the thermal demand profile of districts |
| title_fullStr | Simplified model to predict the thermal demand profile of districts |
| title_full_unstemmed | Simplified model to predict the thermal demand profile of districts |
| title_short | Simplified model to predict the thermal demand profile of districts |
| title_sort | simplified model to predict the thermal demand profile of districts |
| topic | Simulation tool; District system; Community; Demand profile |
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