Paper Info
Title
Multiobjective Optimal Scheduling Framework for HVAC Devices in Energy-Efficient Buildings
Abstract
The worldwide energy consumption has been growing in aggregate at a tremendous rate, and a majority of the same is due to heating ventilation air conditioning (HVAC) loads in urban buildings. With the help of the recent advances in energy management and optimization techniques, the operations and functioning of these devices can now be managed and controlled efficiently for an improved energy consumption scenario and thereby reducing cost. In this article, we propose a multiobjective optimal scheduling framework based on Johnson's elementary circuit finding algorithm for controlling HVAC devices, specifically for buildings that require continuous thermal comfort maintenance. Two primary objectives addressed in this article are: minimizing power fluctuation and maximizing thermal comfortability of the users. We use standard comfortability indices to quantify thermal comfortability. To reduce the computation time, we also propose two intelligent improvement schemes that prune the exponential search space of Johnson's algorithm. Furthermore, a new greedy scheduling algorithm has been proposed to obtain near-optimal solutions efficiently. All the proposed approaches have been studied in a simulated environment depicting a real-world scenario to evaluate their efficiency and effectiveness for practical implementations, including a comparative analysis with Karp's minimum mean cycle algorithm in this problem setup.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/JSYST.2019.2933308
IEEE Systems Journal
Keywords
Field
DocType
Optimal scheduling,HVAC,Buildings,Energy consumption,Heating systems,Pareto optimization,Power demand
Efficient energy use,Scheduling (computing),Computer science,HVAC,Real-time computing,Distributed computing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
13
4
1932-8184
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.35
0
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nilotpal Chakraborty133.50
Arijit Mondal211.70
Samrat Mondal310018.02