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Data-driven simple thermal models: The radiator - gas consumption model

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posted on 2016-03-08, 14:31 authored by Vanda DimitriouVanda Dimitriou, Steven FirthSteven Firth, Tarek HassanTarek Hassan, Tom Kane, Michael Coleman
A simple data-driven Lumped Parameter thermal model is developed linking the radiator surface temperature to the whole house gas consumption using operational data collected from a real house. The indoor room air temperatures, the radiator surface temperatures and the whole house gas consumption are used as input data. The model parameters are estimated using the Ordinary Least Squares technique. Results show that an improved fit can be achieved by excluding data points for which gas consumption is being used for purposes other than space heating using a lower threshold (Tr,pred-Tr,meas) of 1oC during the model calibration. Finally, the model is applied to disaggregate the gas consumption data that are linked to space heating from the original whole house gas consumption at half -hourly intervals.

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  • Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering

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Building Simulation 2015: 14th International Conference of the International Building Performance Simulation Association

Citation

DIMITRIOU, V. ...et al., 2015. Data-driven simple thermal models: The radiator - gas consumption model. Presented at the 14th International Conference of the International Building Performance Simulation Association, Hyderabad, India, Dec 7-9th

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IBPSA

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  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

2015

Notes

This work has been carried out as part of the REFIT project (‘Personalised Retrofit Decision Support Tools for UK Homes using Smart Home Technology’, £1.5m, Grant Reference EP/K002457/1).

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  • en

Location

Hyderabad, India

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