Civil Engineering Reference
In-Depth Information
Fig. 1.5
Environments considered within the POWER research project
as well as the Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) system used
to supervise and control the building.
Chapter 3—Comfort in buildings.
This chapter reviews the basic concepts and
terminology of comfort for the building's users. More specifically, comfort is
described from several points of view: thermal comfort, visual comfort and indoor
air quality. In addition, the main comfort indices, which are widely accepted, are
presented. Finally, a comfort analysis of the data registered at the CDdI-CIESOL-
ARFRISOL building without the use of any active control strategy, is done.
Chapter 4—Subsystems and disturbances models.
In this chapter the develop-
ment of several dynamic models for the indoor climate of a typical office room is
created. The proposed models are both linear and based on first principles. These
models can be used to develop several control strategies which allow the users to
obtain high comfort levels as well as to evaluate the energy performance in build-
ings. Furthermore, the systematic methodology followed to calibrate and validate
the models is explained. The importance of the proposed methodology lies in
that it can be extrapolated to any model of a system with a finite set of unknown
parameters, and composed of a series of separate processes. Finally, in order to
validate the proposed model and calibration methodology, a comparison between
simulated data from the model for a typical office room and real measured data
obtained inside the CDdI-CIESOL-ARFRISOL bioclimatic building is provided.
