Joint Forecasting Model for the Hourly Cooling Load and Fluctuation Range of a Large Public Building Based on GA-SVM and IG-SVM

Meng Wang, Junqi Yu (), Meng Zhou, Wei Quan and Renyin Cheng
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Meng Wang: School of Management, Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology, Xi’an 710055, China
Junqi Yu: School of Building Services Science and Engineering, Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology, Xi’an 710055, China
Meng Zhou: School of Management, Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology, Xi’an 710055, China
Wei Quan: School of Building Services Science and Engineering, Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology, Xi’an 710055, China
Renyin Cheng: School of Building Services Science and Engineering, Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology, Xi’an 710055, China

Sustainability, 2023, vol. 15, issue 24, 1-23

Abstract: Building load prediction is one of the important means of saving energy and reducing emissions, and accurate cold load prediction is conducive to the realization of online monitoring and the optimal control of building air conditioning systems. Therefore, a joint prediction model was proposed in this paper. Firstly, by combining the Pearson correlation coefficient (PCC) method with sensitivity analysis, the optimal combination of parameters that influence building cooling load (BCL) were obtained. Secondly, the parameters of the support vector machine (SVM) model were improved by using the genetic algorithm (GA), and a GA-SVM prediction model was proposed to perform building hourly cold load prediction. Then, when there is a demand for the fluctuation prediction of BCL or extreme weather conditions are encountered, the information granulation (IG) method is used to fuzzy granulate the data. At the same time, the fluctuation range of the BCL was obtained by combining the prediction of the established GA-SVM model. Finally, the model was validated with the actual operational data of a large public building in Xi’an. The results show that the CV-RMSE and MAPE of the GA-SVM model are reduced by 58.85% and 68.04%, respectively, compared with the SVM for the time-by-time BCL prediction, indicating that the optimization of the SVM by using the GA can effectively reduce the error of the prediction model. Compared with the other three widely used prediction models, the R 2 of the GA-SVM model is improved by 4.75~6.35%, the MAPE is reduced by 68.00~72.76%, and the CV-RMSE is reduced by 59.69~64.97%. This proved that the GA-SVM has higher prediction accuracy. In addition, the joint model was used for BCL fluctuation range prediction, and the R 2 of the prediction model was 97.27~99.68%, the MAPE was 2.59~2.84%, and the CV-RMSE was only 0.0249~0.0319, which demonstrated the effectiveness of the joint prediction model. The results of the study have important guiding significance for building load interval prediction, daily energy management and energy scheduling.

Keywords: large public building cooling load; fuzzy information granule; genetic algorithm; support vector machine; joint forecasting model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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