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Model-Assisted Commissioning of a Chilling Plant
Abstract
The chilling plant of a large commercial building located in Brussels is
currently submitted to repetitive commissioning. The measurements are automatically taken by the Building Energy Management
System. This system has been previously commissioned and can be considered as
rather reliable. A model is from long time available for simulating the whole plant.
BEMS measurements available can easily be used to determine the main energy
transfers inside this system, from the building towards the chillers and, finally,
the cooling towers. An almost continuous parameter identification of the chilling plant
model has been done, during several years. Several examples are presented in the paper, demonstrating, ab absurdo,
how much a “model-assisted” continuous commissioning can help in deciding
when a preventive maintenance should be done.
Citation
Georges, B.; Lebrun, J. (2004). Model-Assisted Commissioning of a Chilling Plant. Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.tamu.edu); Texas A&M University (http://www.tamu.edu). Available electronically from https : / /hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /5049.