Thermal comfort evaluation in HVAC Demand Response control

Citations

N. Kampelis, A. Ferrante, D. Kolokotsa, K. Gobakis, L. Standardi, C. Cristalli, Thermal comfort evaluation in HVAC Demand Response control, Energy Procedia, Volume 134, 2017, Pages 675-682, ISSN 1876-6102, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2017.09.587.

Abstract

A novel idea, the Daily Discomfort Score (DDS) is developed to assess Demand Response (DR) and thermal comfortin a University building. HVAC set-point control is exercised as a way to reduce the cost of energy and improvethermal comfort. The Daily Discomfort Score employs operative temperature as the key input parameter to take intoaccount radiative and air temperature conditions in each thermal zone. A penalty mechanism is introduced to accountfor temperature deviation outside the comfort zone and consecutive hours of discomfort. Baseline and preconditioningscenarios are tested to demonstrate the effectiveness of the Daily Discomfort Score in evaluating thermal comfort andDemand Response HVAC control.