[bldg-sim] Predictive control of passive cooling systems?

Fred Porter fporter at archenergy.com
Wed May 12 08:31:54 PDT 2004


Check out
http://www.energy.ca.gov/pier/reports/500-04-009.html
and
http://www.davisenergy.com/nb_page.htm
and
http://www.coolshadow.com/downloads/ACC.pdf


The controller is meant for residential fan-assisted night cooling, but 
I believe it incorporates some kind of self-predictive algorithms to 
control the rate. For use of weather service-issued forecasts, I'm not 
aware of anything, though it is likely some larger facilities in 
high-cooling cost areas may do this manually.



Kim B. Wittchen wrote:

>I am conducting a survey on passive cooling strategies, e.g. night
>cooling of the building mass in order to reduce overheating the
>following day.
>
>In this context I would like to know if anyone have knowledge of
>surveys in the field of natural/night cooling where prediction of
>the weather conditions for the coming day have been used to control
>the flow of cool night air into the building?
>
>Thank you in advance!
>
>Kind regards,
>Kim B. Wittchen
>Danish Building and Urban Research
>
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