[Bldg-sim] ESPr vs. E+ for occupant behavior research

Michael Wetter mwetter at lbl.gov
Fri Apr 9 08:32:03 PDT 2010


Holly,

In EnergyPlus, you could implement a model for the user behavior using
either the Energy Management System or the Building Controls Virtual Test
Bed. The Building Controls Virtual Test Bed would allow you to implement the
user behavior model either in MATLAB, Simulink, Modelica, Ptolemy or in your
custom program, and link it during run-time to EnergyPlus so they can
exchange data as the simulation progresses. It is available from
https://gaia.lbl.gov/bcvtb

All the best,

Michael Wetter

On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 7:49 AM, Paul Carey <paul at zed-uk.com> wrote:

>  Holly,
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> You can use an external file within a schedule to model say occupancy.  If
> you had data that told you the level of occupancy for each room for each
> hour of the day, etc then you can bring that file into the EnergyPlus model
> within a schedule for occupancy and hence it would allow you to model it
> exactly if necessary.  Then using the Parametric tools that E+ offers, you
> could then change a variable at a time (that would be my preference, even
> though you can do more than 1 at a time) to then work out the effects of
> those variances and the link to occupancy and effectiveness, etc.
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> ESP-r will probably run faster than E+ which will be useful if your models
> are large.  Both are difficult to work in.
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> Cheers
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> *From:* bldg-sim-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org [mailto:
> bldg-sim-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org] *On Behalf Of *holly wasilowski
> *Sent:* 09 April 2010 14:47
> *To:* bldg-sim at lists.onebuilding.org
> *Subject:* [Bldg-sim] ESPr vs. E+ for occupant behavior research
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> I am studying the impacts of occupant behavior on the success of various
> building technologies, such as natural ventilation, radiant ceilings,
> phase-change materials, automatic lighting controls, demand-controlled
> ventilation, etc. using whole building energy simulation.  I am wondering
> whether to use EnergyPlus or ESP-r.  An advantage of ESP-r seems to be the
> SHOCC module, which seems to offer a great deal of flexibility for
> manipulating occupant behavior, including stochastic processes.  However an
> advantage of EnergyPlus seems to be its extensive HVAC libraries so that I
> can actually model energy use instead of loads.  I am wondering if the
> EnergyPlus Runtime Language (ERL) (described in Ellis, Torcellini, Crawley
> 2007) would offer the opportunity for a similar level of occupancy control
> via simple programming.  I would appreciate any advice on the
> appropriateness of each software for this research.
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> Thanks in advance!
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> Holly
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> Holly Wasilowski
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> Doctoral Student in Sustainable Design
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> Harvard Graduate School of Design
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