Modelling and flexible predictive control of buildings space-heating demand in district heating systems

District Heating in Buildings

This paper is published by Euroheat & Power. Our aim is to inform about district heating and cooling as efficient and environmentally benign energy solutions that make use of resources that otherwise would be wasted, delivering reliable and comfortable heating and cooling in return.

Tractable Predictive Control Strategies for Heating Systems in Buildings

Model Predictive control is an advanced control technique that has been used to optimize thermal comfort in buildings. Nowadays, the new buildings are characterized by an important inertia as well as low power heating systems. Since the thermal losses are very low, taking into account the intermittent occupancies in the control strategy is questionable. More precisely, in this paper, two model ...

Heating System Control in Commercial Buildings with Peak Demand Adjustment

Wojciech Grega Piotr Bania Department of Automatics, AGH University of Science and Technology, 30-059 Kraków, Al. Mickiewicza 30, Poland [email protected], [email protected] ABSTRACT This paper deals with a supervisory control strategy which enables to optimize heat energy distribution between buildings with discontinuous operation. The core principle of the energy saving algorithm is based on...

Predictive control of multizone heating, ventilation and air-conditioning systems in non-residential buildings

In France, buildings account for a large part of the energy consumption and carbon emissions. Both are mainly due to Heating, Ventilation and Air-Conditioning (HVAC) systems. Because older, oversized or poorly maintained systems may be using more energy and costing more to operate than necessary, new management approaches are needed. In addition, energy efficiency can be improved in central hea...

Numerical modelling of district heating networks