Scalable Deployment of Advanced Building Energy Management Systems

EW-201015

Objective

The objective of this project is to demonstrate an advanced building energy management system that enables facility managers to visualize building energy performance, diagnose building energy faults, and assess alternative, energy efficient HVAC operation strategies. The demonstration will be carried out at the Naval Station Great Lakes in Illinois. This project will demonstrate the scalability of the advanced building energy management system to different types and sizes of buildings.

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Technology Description

An advanced building energy management system will be implemented as a software extension to the current AEC ENFORMA Building Diagnostics platform. For the Naval Station Great Lakes demonstration, this system will interface directly with the Siemens Building Management System (BMS) and reside on an independent computer. The key enabling technologies that will be advanced include tools and methods for (1) real-time load estimation, (2) reduce-order physics-based models for the building and HVAC systems, (3) building and HVAC system energy diagnostics that apply advanced statistical learning algorithms to identify patterns of anomalies, (4) building and HVAC system energy visualization, and (5) HVAC operation sensitivity analysis.

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Benefits

Broad deployment of scalable building energy management systems that apply advanced energy diagnostics and alternative, energy efficient HVAC operation strategies will deliver savings of at least 20% in HVAC energy consumption at Department of Defense (DoD) facilities. With an annual DoD facility energy expenditure of $3.5 billion, a 20% HVAC system energy savings would provide more than $200 million savings potential across all DoD facilities. Achievable annual energy savings amount to 0.8 billion kWh, which offer a reduction of 528,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide per year. (Anticipated Project Completion - 2012)

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Points of Contact

Principal Investigator

Dr. Trevor Bailey

United Technologies Research Center

Phone: 860-610-1554

Program Manager

Energy and Water

SERDP and ESTCP

Document Types

  • Fact Sheet - Brief project summary with links to related documents and points of contact.
  • Final Report - Comprehensive report for every completed SERDP and ESTCP project that contains all technical results.
  • Cost & Performance Report - Overview of ESTCP demonstration activities, results, and conclusions, standardized to facilitate implementation decisions.
  • Technical Report - Additional interim reports, laboratory reports, demonstration reports, and technology survey reports.
  • Guidance - Instructional information on technical topics such as protocols and user’s guides.
  • Workshop Report - Summary of workshop discussion and findings.
  • Multimedia - On demand videos, animations, and webcasts highlighting featured initiatives or technologies.
  • Model/Software - Computer programs and applications available for download.
  • Database - Digitally organized collection of data available to search and access.