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View article: Price-aware RL for HVAC control: maintaining comfort and enhancing flexibility validated across dual open-source platforms
Price-aware RL for HVAC control: maintaining comfort and enhancing flexibility validated across dual open-source platforms Open
View article: An environment-adaptive SAC-based HVAC control of single-zone residential and office buildings
An environment-adaptive SAC-based HVAC control of single-zone residential and office buildings Open
This study introduces an advanced reinforcement learning (RL)-based control strategy for heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems, employing a soft actor-critic agent with a customized reward mechanism. This strategy integ…
View article: Co-optimisation of wind and solar energy and intermittency for renewable generator site selection
Co-optimisation of wind and solar energy and intermittency for renewable generator site selection Open
Sites for the construction of wind and solar farms have typically been chosen to maximise total energy generation of an individual site, but rarely consider the intermittency of the renewable resource available at each location. As more re…
View article: On the validity of using ground-based observations to validate geostationary-satellite-derived direct and diffuse surface solar irradiance: Quantifying the spatial mismatch and temporal averaging issues
On the validity of using ground-based observations to validate geostationary-satellite-derived direct and diffuse surface solar irradiance: Quantifying the spatial mismatch and temporal averaging issues Open
This paper discusses the differences, due to different measuring mechanisms, of satellite-derived and ground measured surface solar irradiance (SSI) direct and diffuse components, and the impacts of the differences when validating satellit…
View article: Estimating surface solar irradiance from geostationary Himawari-8 over Australia: A physics-based method with calibration
Estimating surface solar irradiance from geostationary Himawari-8 over Australia: A physics-based method with calibration Open
Surface Solar Irradiance (SSI) is required for solar energy planning and adoption, and is a fundamental parameter in modelling weather, climate, ecosystem and agricultural activities. Herein a time series based radiative transfer model was…
View article: Application of small angle approximation in circumsolar irradiance modelling
Application of small angle approximation in circumsolar irradiance modelling Open
Circumsolar irradiance is the part of diffuse or scattered irradiance within a small angle (2.5° for typical pyrheliometers) around the sun which is measured, together with direct normal irradiance, by pyrheliometers and reported as part o…
View article: Support vector machine based fault detection and diagnosis for HVAC systems
Support vector machine based fault detection and diagnosis for HVAC systems Open
Various faults occurred in the heating, ventilation and airconditioning (HVAC) systems usually lead to more energy consumption and worse thermal comfort inevitably. This paper presents a feasible and valid solution of HVAC fault detection …