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2020 Building Performance Analysis Conference and SimBuild co-organized by ASHRAE and IBPSA-USA

     

Masterplanner: A Central Utility Plant Design and Optimization Tool

Te Qi, Pouya Rezazadeh Kalehbasti
Atelier Ten USA LLC., San Francisco, CA
Stanford University, Stanford, CA

Abstract: This paper presents a web-based software for designing optimal central utility plants. This tool can receive userdefined load profiles or generate typical load profiles based on user-specified combination and areas of 16 reference building types. The software then solves a linear-programming optimization comprising 8760 sets of equations and constraints to design central plant configurations with minimal first cost, operating cost, life-cycle cost, energy use, or marginal carbon emissions. The tool also calculates simultaneous heating and cooling loads to evaluate using heat-recovery chillers, and it can design both hot and cold thermal energy storage as well as water-side economizers.
Pages: 510 - 517
Paper:
simbuild2020_C062