Advanced controls on energy reliability, flexibility and occupant-centric control for smart and energy-efficient buildings

Z Liu, X Zhang, Y Sun, Y Zhou - Energy and Buildings, 2023 - Elsevier
Advanced controls have attracted increasing interests due to the high requirement on smart
and energy-efficient (SEE) buildings and decarbonization in the building industry with …

Time-dependent solar aperture estimation of a building: Comparing grey-box and white-box approaches

X Zhang, C Rasmussen, D Saelens, S Roels - Renewable and Sustainable …, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper proposes a B-splines integrated method combining in-situ data with grey-box
modeling to estimate buildings' dynamic solar gain more efficiently than the conventional …

Estimating dynamic solar gains from on-site measured data: An ARX modelling approach

X Zhang, D Saelens, S Roels - Applied Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
On-site measured data in combination with statistical methods is used more and more to
assess the actual performance of a building and to develop simplified models that can be …

[HTML][HTML] Clustering commercial and industrial load patterns for long-term energy planning

P Nystrup, H Madsen, EMV Blomgren, G de Zotti - Smart Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
In future smart energy systems, consumers are expected to change their load patterns as
they become a significant source of flexibility. To ensure reliable load profile forecasts for …

[HTML][HTML] Identification of non-linear autoregressive models with exogenous inputs for room air temperature modelling

CA Thilker, P Bacher, D Cali, H Madsen - Energy and AI, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper proposes non-linear autoregressive models with exogenous inputs to model the
air temperature in each room of a Danish school building connected to the local district …

Data-driven estimation of time-dependent solar gain coefficient in a two-zone building with synthetic occupants: Two B-splines integrated grey-box modeling …

X Zhang, D Saelens, S Roels - Building and Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Solar gains are a significant share of the heat input to the buildings' interior energy balance.
Therefore, it is important to estimate the dynamic details of solar gains precisely for …

Quantifying dynamic solar gains in buildings: Measurement, simulation and data-driven modelling

X Zhang, D Saelens, S Roels - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2025 - Elsevier
Solar energy is an essential renewable energy source for buildings, such as electricity
generated by building-integrated photovoltaic and both electricity and thermal energy …

Predicting solar gains based on on-board monitored data: Exploring dynamic methods on a full-size building case

X Zhang, A Erfani, D Saelens, S Roels - AIP Conference Proceedings, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The significance of precise information on solar gains (Sg), based on dynamic solar aperture
(gA) integration, has been verified in several studies. These studies have demonstrated the …