[Bldg-sim] ESPr vs. E+ for occupant behavior research
Paul Carey
paul at zed-uk.com
Fri Apr 9 08:43:51 PDT 2010
Thanks Michael
Clearly I have a lot to learn about what E+ can link with.
Cheers
Paul
Sent from my iPhone
On 9 Apr 2010, at 16:32, Michael Wetter <mwetter at lbl.gov> wrote:
> 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,
>
>
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> ESP-r will probably run faster than E+ which will be useful if your
> models are large. Both are difficult to work in.
>
>
>
> Cheers
>
> Paul
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Dr Paul Carey
>
> BSc (Hons) PhD FRSA
>
> Director
>
> Low Carbon Energy Assessor
>
>
>
> Zero Energy Design Ltd
>
> 10A Portland Place
>
> 2-22 Mottram Road
>
> Stalybridge
>
> SK15 3AD
>
>
>
> T: 0161 3386200
>
> F: 0161 3031281
>
> M: 0789 4098012
>
> E: paul at zed-uk.com
>
> W: www.zed-uk.com
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Certificate No: GB16647
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Certificate No: GB16646
>
>
>
>
>
> Please carefully consider the environment before you print this email.
>
>
>
> Company Registered in England & Wales. Registration No. 5815068
>
> Registered Address: 10A Portland Place, 2-22 Mottram Road,
> Stalybridge, SK15 3AD, UK.
>
>
>
> Privilege and Confidentiality Notice:
>
>
>
> This email and any attachments to it are intended only for the party
> to whom they are addressed. They may contain privileged and/or
> confidential information. If you have received this transmission in
> error, please notify the sender immediately and delete any digital
> copies and destroy any paper copies. Thank you.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> 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
>
>
>
> 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.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Holly
>
>
>
> Holly Wasilowski
>
> Doctoral Student in Sustainable Design
>
> Harvard Graduate School of Design
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Bldg-sim mailing list
> http://lists.onebuilding.org/listinfo.cgi/bldg-sim-onebuilding.org
> To unsubscribe from this mailing list send a blank message to BLDG-SIM-UNSUBSCRIBE at ONEBUILDING.ORG
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.onebuilding.org/pipermail/bldg-sim-onebuilding.org/attachments/20100409/5178a335/attachment-0002.htm>
More information about the Bldg-sim
mailing list