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2019 07 12 team meeting agenda

Lisa Rivalin edited this page Jul 15, 2019 · 19 revisions

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Date: July 12, 2019, 9:00-11:00 Pacific Time

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Slides

Slides will be posted at https://github.com/lbl-srg/obc/blob/master/meetings/2019-07-12-team

For sample CDL output in Word format, see https://github.com/lbl-srg/obc/blob/master/meetings/2019-07-12-team/cdl_parser_output.zip (Press the "Download" button and unzip the file.)

Agenda

  • 9:00 Upcoming deadlines
  • 9:15 Primary sequence implementation
    • Implementation of RP 1711
    • Case study
  • 9:35 CDL
    • Proposing CDL as an ASHRAE Standard
    • Guideline 36 reference implementation in CDL
    • CDL translation to English and to product line
  • 10:10 Control sequence selection and configuration tool
  • 10:30 Commercialization plan
  • 10:45 Next steps

Attendees

  1. Michael Wetter - LBL
  2. Philip Haves - LBL
  3. Mary Ann Piette - LBL
  4. Jianjun Hu - LBL
  5. Milica Grahovac - LBL
  6. Antoine Gautier - LBL
  7. Kun Zhang - LBL
  8. Lisa Rivalin - LBL
  9. Nari Yoon - LBL
  10. Paul Ehrlich - Building Intelligence Group
  11. Rich Rockwood - Oracle
  12. David Pritchard - Integral Group
  13. Jim Kelsey - kW Engineering
  14. Steve Taylor - Taylor Engineering LLC
  15. Dave Robin - BSC Softworks
  16. David Guerrant - Integral Group
  17. Paul Switenki - Arup
  18. William Casper-Ortiz - Integral Group

Minutes

Progress update (20 min)

Michael explained the projects milestone and progress:

Phase 1: extension approved to end in October 2020.
Waiting for official approval from DOE for phase 2 including PNNL

Project Phase 2 goals:

  • More control sequences for boiler, DOAS, Radiant system, MPC, fault detection
  • Make CDL an ASHRAE and ISO standard
  • Provide to control vendors with assistance to develop translators for their particular control lines
  • Work with BRICK/Haystack models, create a conversion tool from CDL
  • Streamline communication of control sequences

Primary Sequence implementation:

Milica presented the implementation approaches : sequences are implemented modularly and then generalized.
Questions: sequence breakdown to allow other types of controls? Michael to suggest to discuss with Dave Robin on the implementation of break points on the sequences (example: Freeze protection)

Case Study:

  • Waiting for the sequence to be implemented, hopefully fall 2019.
  • Discussion with Rich to be scheduled.

Control Sequence selection (35 min)

Proposing CDL as an ASHRAE Standard

  • CDL can be seen as a digital twin for commissioning and verification for control vendors to make sure they conform to the guideline sequences.
  • Steve Taylor will be leading the standard committee.
  • The standardization would not be static and allow vendors to extend it. The standard can evolve as a language extension
  • Standardization allows stability and consensus

Guideline 36 reference implementation in CDL

  • Modelizing the sequences is a challenge because despite a correct documentation, the implementation doesn't seem to be tested.
  • The ambition is to have a close formulation between English language and implementation of CDL.
  • Legal copyright matters needs to be discussed with ASHRAE

CDL translation to English and to a product line

  • Dave Robin detailed his progress with the translation from CDL to ALC EIKON: created a program that reads the JSON, converts to an executable sequence and maps with CDL Block types.
  • It's challenging to create graphics mapping because of layout (blocks, hierarchical links) consistency between languages.

Configuration tool (20 min)

Commercialization plan (15 min)

Next Steps (5 min)