Benchmarking the energy performance for cooling purposes in buildings is an important tool for energy management. This paper proposes a novel index and develops a benchmarking process for energy performance for cooling purposes by means of data envelopment analysis and cooling degree hour...

Traditional benchmarking of building energy performance usually starts by considering a wide range of different factors and giving these factors different weights to help reach one general indicator measuring a building’s overall energy performance. For obtaining more specific information in...

This study employs gradient method (GM) to solve economic dispatch of chiller plant (EDCP) problem. GM overcomes the flaw that with the Lagrangian multiplier (LM) method the system may not converge at low demand. In this study, the load balance constraint and the operating limit constraints of...

Ice-storage air-conditioning system, while known for its advantage of shifting power consumption at peak hours during the day to the nighttime, can increase both energy consumption and CO2 emission. The study adopts particle swarm algorithm to facilitate optimization of ice-storage...