Abstract
District Cooling System (DCS) has been proven to be a cost-effective and economically feasible option to provide cooling in a large district development, and it has been widely adopted around the world. In order to have a robust design, plant simulation of DCS is frequently used to predict the performance of the system throughout a year thus the energy consumptions. However regarding to the distribution system of DCS, the distribution pipe route and arrangement strategy is essential to achieve economical design and operation. Since DCS is used to serve a large urban area which covers a variety of buildings, the pipe route design cannot be easily identified and numerous possible paths can be connected from DCS to different buildings, especially those are remote to DCS plant. Therefore the most appropriate pipe route can be determined by using the optimization methodology, and dynamic programming was found effective and useful for such kind of problem.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages | 1031-1038 |
| Publication status | Published - Oct 2001 |
| Event | The 4th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality, Ventilation and Energy Conservation in Buildings (IAQVEC2001) - Changsha, China Duration: 2 Oct 2001 → 5 Oct 2001 |
Conference
| Conference | The 4th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality, Ventilation and Energy Conservation in Buildings (IAQVEC2001) |
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| Place | China |
| City | Changsha |
| Period | 2/10/01 → 5/10/01 |