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L.C.M. Itard

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From P&ID to DBN

Automated HVAC FDD modelling framework using large language models

Buildings account for approximately 40% of energy consumption in the European Union and over one-third of energy-related greenhouse gas emissions, with a significant portion attributed to heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems. Effective fault detection and dia ...

Whole-Building HVAC Fault Detection and Diagnosis with the 4S3F Method

Towards Integrating Systems and Occupant Feedback

Automated fault detection and diagnostics (FDD) can support building energy performance and predictive maintenance by leveraging the vast amounts of data generated by modern building management systems. Diagnostic Bayesian Networks (DBN) offer a particularly promising approach du ...

Introducing Causality to Symptom Baseline Estimation

A Critical Case Study in Fault Detection of Building Energy Systems

Fault detection and diagnosis (FDD) provides several interrelated benefits, including reducing energy waste, enhanced operational efficiency, and maintaining indoor comfort. The initial step in FDD is to detect deviations from normal or expected operation. However, establishing a ...
Energy waste in buildings can range from 5% to 30% due to faults and inadequate controls. To effectively mitigate energy waste and reduce maintenance costs, the development of Fault Detection and Diagnosis (FDD) algorithms for building energy systems is crucial. Diagnostic Bayesi ...
This study investigates the diagnostic capabilities of a Diagnostic Bayesian Network (DBN) for air handling unit (AHU) components, particularly focusing on the heat recovery wheel (HRW) and heating coil valve (HCV). Unlike data-driven methods relying heavily on high-quality label ...
The energy management systems industry in the built environment is currently an important topic. Buildings use about 40% of the total global energy worldwide. Therefore, the energy management system’s sector is one of the most influential sectors to realize changes and transforma ...
Low Temperature Heating (LTH) of buildings is a key feature when switching to renewable energy. Even when the capacity of LTH is high enough, LTH may adversely affect indoor thermal comfort in case buildings are not suitably insulated. This paper goes deeper into methodological i ...
After the thermal renovation of a dwelling, there exists a gap between the actual and predicted energy performance. One of the reasons contributing to this gap is the poor assumptions of building thermal characteristics during the prediction stage. Nowadays, smart meters for gas ...
Buildings need to be carefully operated and maintained for optimum health, comfort, energy performance, and utility costs. The increasing use of Machine Learning combined with Big Data in the building services sector has shown the potential to bring energy efficiency and cost-eff ...
Many researchers have indicated the energy performance gap (difference between actual and predicted energy used in buildings), not only on an individual building level, but also on a building stock level. For policy makers it is important that predictions are correct on an bu ...
Learning and educational challenges in the field of indoor climate and building services like energy systems are mainly due to the transformation of professional practices and learning networks, a big shift in the way in which people work, communicate, and share their knowledge a ...
The HVAC sector is essential to realize the energy transition and is facing numerous challenges like educating enough HVAC engineers to carry out the task and being able to integrate knowledge from the construction, energy, IT and health sectors and to cope with rapid technologic ...
In this review article, our main goal is understanding the Networked Learnings used for professional development. Networked learning can be defined as a form of learning where information and communication technology (ICT) can be used to promote connections between learners and t ...

Thermal comfort perception and indoor climate

Results from the OPSCHALER project

The average energy consumption for heating of dwellings in the Netherlands has been decreasing over the last decades as a result of increasing thermal performance of new and renovated dwellings. However, this decrease is found to be lower than energy performance models predic ...

4S3F Diagnostic Bayesian Network method

Discussion about application and technical design

In practice, automated energy performance fault diagnosis systems are seldom installed in HVAC systems. The main reason is that a specific Fault Detection and Diagnosis (FDD) setup is time-consuming and expensive because the existing methods are component-specific, not aligned wi ...
In practice, faults in building installations are seldom noticed because automated systems to diagnose such faults are not common use, despite many proposed methods: they are cumbersome to apply and not matching the way of thinking of HVAC engineers. Additionally, fault diagnosis ...
Monitoring the energy performance of very low and zero energy buildings is fundamental to evaluate the efforts made to transition into an energy neutral built environment. Post occupancy monitoring has been embedded into current practice, supported by the availability of smart me ...
A comparative study for a representative case district in the Netherlands with around 2500 dwellings has been executed with the purpose of identifying the best solution for a Low Temperature District Heating (LTDH) with Low Temperature Geothermal Heat (LTGH) as the main heat sour ...
There are indications that energy-retrofitted buildings can create risks for indoor environmental quality (IEQ) and therefore for health and comfort of occupants. A review was conducted to identify and verify those risks, within three themes: building envelope, heating, ventilati ...

P&ID-based automated fault identification for energy performance diagnosis in HVAC systems

4S3F method, development of DBN models and application to an ATES system

Current methods for energy diagnosis in heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems are not consistent with process and instrumentation diagrams (P&IDs) as used by engineers to design and operate these systems, leading to very limited application of energy perfor ...