English

Thermal circuits assembling and state-space extraction for modelling heat transfer in buildings

Systems and Control 2022-03-15 v1 Systems and Control

Abstract

State-space representation is essential in the theory of dynamic systems. This paper introduces a methodology for obtaining state-space representation from the thermal models of elementary components of a building by the conjunction of two methods: 1) assembling of thermal circuits and 2) state-space extraction from thermal circuit. These methods are fully illustrated on a very simple model and tested on a real house of about 100 m 2 on which detailed measurements were achieved for 40 days at a time step of 10 min. The errors obtained between the measurements and the simulation results are in the order of ±\pm1 {\textdegree}C for a single zone and ±\pm2 {\textdegree}C for seven thermal zones. Besides simulation, parameter identification and control, the methods for assembling thermal circuits and extraction of state-space representation may be useful in Building Information Modelling (BIM).

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@article{arxiv.2203.07032,
  title  = {Thermal circuits assembling and state-space extraction for modelling heat transfer in buildings},
  author = {Christian Ghiaus and Naveed Ahmad},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.07032},
  year   = {2022}
}
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