CE2, a double check on occupancy profiles

[Tohid Jafarinejad]

Dear all,

My name is Tohid and I'm a new participant in IBPSA Project 1 WP3. I work with Ina and Dirk from KU Leuven. Following the previous meeting session on zoom, and some discrepancies in reported results of CE2 (as evident from page 30 and 31 of the Google presentation), I am bound to double check if all the 16 occupancy profiles have been implemented in a neat manner. Therefore, I wanted to kindly ask our dear participants who are incorporating these occupancy profiles into their models via AixLib, Buildings, DIMOSIM, IDEAS, and Trnsys to send me the following file. This file is in fact the temperature set-point profiles and internal heat gains (which represent the occupancy profile) as they come out of the simulation, just to check if the occupancy profiles are correctly implemented.

• Thank you for providing your results in the correct format (makes plotting easier)

  • Results should be reported in a standardized format (1 csv per occupancy profile)

    • The filename: LIBRARY_BUILDINGTYPE_BUILDINGID_INSULATIONSTANDARD_OCCUPANTPROFILE.csv

      • Where LIBRARY is the library you are working with. Choose from: IDEAS, Buildings, AixLib, BuildingSystems, IDAICE, DIMOSIM, Trnsys (case-sensitive!)

      • Where BUILDINGID is an ID for the specific building and always equals 1 in the current simulations. This is just a placeholder (e.g. Enora can include the shading from the surrounding buildings, then this ID can be used).

      • Where BUILDINGTYPE currently always equals SFD (single-family dwelling). This is just a placeholder for the offices (OFF) in the nearby future.

      • Where INSULATIONSTANDARD is the insulation standard that you are using. Choose from: 1980s, 2000s, 2010s

      • Where OCCUPANTPROFILE is the occupant profile that is used. Choose from: ISO, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16

    • The file itself is a comma separated csv, which contains 8 columns:

      • Datetime - in seconds. Time step is 600 seconds or 10 minutes

      • Qheating_building_W in Watt. Heating power for the whole building
        

      • Tair_dayzone_K in Kelvin. Air temperature of the day zone
        

      • Tair_nightzone_K in Kelvin. Air temperature of the night zone
        

      • Tset_dayzone_K in Kelvin. Set-point temperature of the day zone

      • Tset_nightzone_K in Kelvin. Set-point temperature of the night zone

      • Internal Convective Heat Gain in Watt/m²

      • Internal Radiative Heat Gain in Watt/m²

You can find an example here (attachment at the bottom of the message).

I bid you all a pleasant day!

Best regards,

Tohid