Conference article

Michael Wetter
Simulation Research Group, Building Technologies Department, Environmental Energy Technologies Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA

Wangda Zuo
Simulation Research Group, Building Technologies Department, Environmental Energy Technologies Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA

Thierry Stephane Nouidui
Simulation Research Group, Building Technologies Department, Environmental Energy Technologies Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA

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Published in: Proceedings of the 8th International Modelica Conference; March 20th-22nd; Technical Univeristy; Dresden; Germany

Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 63:30, p. 266-275

Published: 2011-06-30

ISBN: 978-91-7393-096-3

ISSN: 1650-3686 (print), 1650-3740 (online)

This paper reports the updates of the library and presents example applications for a range of heating; ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems. Over the past two years; the library has been further developed. The number of HVAC components models has been doubled and various components have been revised to increase numerical robustness.

The paper starts with an overview of the library architecture and a description of the main packages. To demonstrate the features of the Buildings library; applications that include multizone air ow simulation as well as supervisorand local loop control of a variable air volume (VAV) system are brie y described. The pap closes with a discussion of the current development.

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