Modelling Building Energy Systems using Electric Circuit Analogy



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Submitted Dec 24, 2022
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10.24018/ejece.2023.7.1.491

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Modelling energy systems is of great interest since it can help to analyse building energy behaviour and to optimize control strategies. Grey-box modelling is one of the three fundamental modelling approaches for developing energy models. Due to its simplicity and offering several benefits, it has been widely used to handle building-technology challenges such as building load estimate, control and optimization, synthetic data generation for prediction, load peak management and grid integration. This review research looked at several areas of grey box modelling for building energy systems. Here we analyse three main directions, first one is modelling thermal dynamics of buildings, second one analysing approach used to model most used building electrical appliances and third one is renewable systems used to produce thermal water for residential use.
Keywords: Buildings Electrical Circuits Energy Behaviour Lumped-Element Modelling Thermal Behaviour Thermal Resistive Networks

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