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This paper studies a scalable control method for multi-zone heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems to optimize the energy cost for maintaining thermal comfort and indoor air quality (IAQ) (represented by CO2) simultaneously. This problem is computationally challenging due to the complex system dynamics, various spatial and temporal couplings as well as multiple control variables to be coordinated. To address the challenges, we propose a two-level distributed method (TLDM) with a upper level and lower level control integrated. The upper level computes zone mass flow rates for maintaining zone thermal comfort with minimal energy cost, and then the lower level strategically regulates zone mass flow rates and the ventilation rate to achieve IAQ while preserving the near energy saving performance of upper level. As both the upper and lower level computation are deployed in a distributed manner, the proposed method is scalable and computationally efficient. The near-optimal performance of the method in energy cost saving is demonstrated through comparison with the centralized method. In addition, the comparisons with the existing distributed method show that our method can provide IAQ with only little increase of energy cost while the latter fails. Moreover, we demonstrate our method outperforms the demand controlled ventilation strategies (DCVs) for IAQ management with about 8-10% energy cost reduction.
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