Mech 542 Term Project

This project is an analysis of heating load and some potential energy conservation measures in a house with hydronic heating. It's basically a bunch of Jupyter notebooks, and a handful of python files, making heavy use of Pandas and Matplotlib.

Top level notebooks:

• Overview.ipynb - Description of the project
• AHeatingModel.ipynb - Heating load model
• all.ipynb - Runs all of the device models in sequence

Utility notebooks:

• Loader.ipynb - Loads weather and consumption data
• ParseIrr.ipynb - Loads CWEEDs irrigation data

Individual model notebooks:

• hp.ipynb
• BAU.ipynb
• LowSolar.ipynb
• Untitled.ipynb
• nsb.ipynb
• HighSolar.ipynb
• tank.ipynb

Python model files

These files define the device / energy conservation models.

• bau.py - Sets the house state to "business as usual"
• boiler.py - Uses electricity at 100% efficiency to serve remaining residual load.
• hp.py - Hydronic heat pump with a linear efficiency curve
• hsolar.py - Evacuated tube solar collector
• loadem.py - Coiled poly hose solar collector
• nsb.py - Night setback model
• tank.py - 1000 Gallon Heat storage tank
• loadirr.py - Utility loader for irrigation data