Assessment of State-Space Building Energy System Models in Terms of Stability and Controllability

V. S. K. V. Harish, Arun Kumar, Tabish Alam and Paolo Blecich
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V. S. K. V. Harish: Department of Electrical Engineering, Netaji Subhas University of Technology (NSUT), Sector-3, Dwarka, Delhi 110078, India
Arun Kumar: Department of Hydro and Renewable Energy, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IITR), Haridwar, Roorkee 247667, India
Tabish Alam: CSIR-Central Building Research Institute, Roorkee 247667, India
Paolo Blecich: Department of Thermodynamics and Energy Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Rijeka, 51000 Rijeka, Croatia

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 21, 1-26

Abstract: Building energy management system involves the development of control strategies for the heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC), as well as lighting, systems. Building energy modeling is a significant part of designing such strategies. In order to analyze the feasibility of a building energy system model for any desired control strategy, a mathematical assessment tool is developed in this paper. A multi-input multi-output (MIMO) building energy system model, consisting of an outdoor wall, an external wall, two partition walls, one roof, and a ceiling, has been considered as the virtual test setup. A methodology for conducting stability and controllability assessment tests on the building energy model is proposed using inverse dynamics input theory (IDIT). IDIT enables the decoupling of control variables so as to enable the conversion of an MIMO system to a number of independent single-input single-output systems. The controllability is assessed based on the design properties for continuous systems: asymptotes and transmission zeros. The results show that the relative humidity and air temperature of the building space were controllable for all operating points; however, in unconditioned situations, where the humidity levels of the building space were greater than that of the outdoor levels, the models were unstable.

Keywords: building energy systems; modeling and simulation; stability assessment; controllability; multi-input multi-output system (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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