ENERGY OPTIMIZATION OF SERBIAN BUILDINGS USING THE HOOKE JEEVES ALGORITHM

Abstract

Nowadays, a radical approach for the mitigation of the energy demand is the concept of positive-net energy building (PNEB). Also, the renewable energy has a significant impact on the environment, so the research and development of renewable energy resources and the use of renewable energy is essential. In this paper, the possibilities to decrease energy consumption of Serbian residential buildings are analyzed. The building with gas heating system, photovoltaic array for the electricity generation and solar collectors are investigated. The major aim was to analyze the possibilities to decrease primary energy consumption, due to variation of electricity consumption and hot water consumption in building, in order to achieve positive-net energy building. The obtained results gave the optimal size of PV array and solar collectors, installed on the building roof. The buildings are simulated in EnergyPlus environment. Open Studio plug-in in Google SketchUp was used for buildings design, Hooke-Jeeves algorithm for optimization and GENOPT software for software execution control.