Baseline Estimation of Commercial Building HVAC Fan Power Using Tensor Completion

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2004.13557v1
• Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2020 23:03:41 GMT
• Title: Baseline Estimation of Commercial Building HVAC Fan Power Using Tensor Completion
• Authors: Shunbo Lei, David Hong, Johanna L. Mathieu, Ian A. Hiskens
• Abstract summary: One critical issue is to estimate the counterfactual baseline power consumption that would have prevailed without demand response (DR) New methods are necessary to estimate the baseline power consumption of HVAC sub-components. This paper proposes to use it for baselining HVAC fan power, by utilizing its capability of capturing dominant fan power patterns.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Commercial building heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems have been studied for providing ancillary services to power grids via demand response (DR). One critical issue is to estimate the counterfactual baseline power consumption that would have prevailed without DR. Baseline methods have been developed based on whole building electric load profiles. New methods are necessary to estimate the baseline power consumption of HVAC sub-components (e.g., supply and return fans), which have different characteristics compared to that of the whole building. Tensor completion can estimate the unobserved entries of multi-dimensional tensors describing complex data sets. It exploits high-dimensional data to capture granular insights into the problem. This paper proposes to use it for baselining HVAC fan power, by utilizing its capability of capturing dominant fan power patterns. The tensor completion method is evaluated using HVAC fan power data from several buildings at the University of Michigan, and compared with several existing methods. The tensor completion method generally outperforms the benchmarks.

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