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Optimization based approach to assist the transition of large energy users to low temperature networks

François Maréchal, Jessen Page, Alberto Mian, Francesca Belfiore

Distric Energy System (DES) represents a promising opportunity to improve energy efficiency and boost the decarbonization of the European energy sector. If most of the studies focus on small consumers typically located within urban areas, large energy user ...

Curran Associates, Inc.2020

The optimum is not the goal: Capturing the decision space for the planning of new neighborhoods

François Maréchal, Jessen Page, Sébastien Cajot, Nils Christian Schüler

This article presents the development and application of a methodology that employs optimization not to seek the single or few optimal plan(s) but to provide planners with a systematic overview of their decision space. As urban development projects are not ...

2018

IntegrCiTy - D2.3 Report - Enabling and integrating a common IT structure: Definition of a back-end layer architecture

Luc Girardin, François Maréchal, Jessen Page, Gillian Jean Bernard Basso

The concept of the IntegrCiTy platform is built around the development of a single application as a suite of independent software: project partners will mutualize a certain number of tools that shall be integrated in the IntegrCiTy platform. Therefore, a r ...

IPESE-EPFL2017

A method for taking into account seasonal storage in a district energy system optimisation problem

François Maréchal, Jessen Page, Jean-Loup Sylvain Robineau

In this work, a method for taking into account seasonal storage in an energy optimisation problem is developed. A master-slave optimisation procedure is applied, in which the master optimisation is an evolutionary algorithm, while the slave optimisation is ...

2016

Establishing links for the planning of sustainable districts

François Maréchal, Jessen Page, Sébastien Cajot, Nils Christian Schüler

Cities can play a key role in mitigating climate change impacts, as they represent two thirds of the world’s energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. This paper presents a model-based approach to support cities in the challenge of including energy ...

vdf Hochschulverlag AG2016

Heat demand estimation for different building types at regional scale considering building parameters and urban topography

François Maréchal, Jessen Page, Alexandre Suzanne Jean-Marie Bertrand, Nils Christian Schüler

This study aims towards an improved estimation of annual heat demand of the building stock for an entire region. This requires the holistic representation of aspects influencing the heat demand of buildings, namely their geometry, fabric, users and surroun ...

Elsevier2015

A generalised stochastic model for the simulation of occupant presence

Nicolas Morel, Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Jessen Page, Darren Robinson

This paper describes an algorithm for the simulation of occupant presence, to be later used as an input for future occupant behaviour models within building simulation tools. By considering occupant presence as an inhomogeneous Markov chain interrupted by ...

2008

Simulating occupant presence and behaviour in buildings

Jessen Page

Various factors play a part in the energy consumption of a building : its physical properties, the equipment installed for its functioning (the heating, ventilation and air-conditioning system, auxiliary production of electricity or hot water), the outdoor ...

EPFL2007

SUNtool - A new modelling paradigm for simulating and optimising urban sustainability

Nicolas Morel, Jessen Page, Darren Robinson

This paper describes the development and application of a new unique tool to support designers to optimise the sustainability of urban neighbourhoods (SUNtool). In this the paper introduces (i) the software architecture, (ii) the integrated solver and rela ...

2007

On-site performance of electrochromic glazings coupled to an anidolic daylighting system

Nicolas Morel, Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Jessen Page

This work takes benefit from two advanced building technologies through the integration of an anidolic daylighting system and an electro-chromic glazing in a building facade for achieving an optimal control of the daylight flux entering in an office room. ...

2007

Stochastic Simulation of Occupant Presence and Behaviour in Buildings

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Jessen Page, Darren Robinson

While most current building simulation tools consider occupants as predictable robots the true nature of human behaviour is more complex. This article describes a set of stochastic models aimed at capturing this complexity by decoupling occupant presence f ...

2007

Simulating stochastic demand of resources in an urban neighbourhood

Nicolas Morel, Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Jessen Page, Darren Robinson

The consumption of resources within an urban neighbourhood depends on the behaviour of its occupants. To understand the randomness of this behaviour and its effect on the demand of resources calls for the development of a set of stochastic models which are ...

2005