Testing of a price-based system for power balancing on real-life HVAC installation in real life

• Autorzy: Radziszewska Weronika , Bugaj Marcin A. , Łuniewski Mirosław , Hoogsteen Gerwin , Chaja Patryk , Bykuć Sebastian

Identyfikatory

DOI

10.24425/bpasts.2022.140690

• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

HVAC systems use a substantial part of the whole energy usage of buildings. The optimizing of their operation can greatly affect the power use of a building, making them an interesting subject when trying to save energy. However, this should not affect the comfort of the people inside. Many approaches aim to optimize the operation of the heating and cooling system; in this paper, we present an approach to steer the heat pumps to reduce energy usage while aiming to maintain a certain level of comfort. For this purpose, we employ a market-based distributed method for power-balancing. To maintain the comfort level, the market-based distributed system assigns each device a cost-curve, parametrized with the current temperature of the room. This allows the cost to reflect the urgency of the HVAC operation. This approach was tested in a real-world environment: we use 10 heat pumps responsible for temperature control in 10 comparable-sized rooms. The test was performed for 3 months in summer. We limited the total peak power, and the algorithm balanced the consumption of the heat pumps with the available supply. The experiments showed that the system successfully managed to operate within the limit (lowering peak usage), and - to a certain point – reduce the cost without significantly deteriorating the working conditions of the occupants of the rooms. This test allowed us to estimate the minimal peak power requirement for the tested set-up that will still keep the room temperatures in or close to comfortable levels. The experiments show that a fully distributed market-based approach with parametrized cost functions can be used to limit peak usage while maintaining temperatures.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

distributed management; heat pump; HVAC; power management; water loop

PL

zarządzanie rozproszone; pompa ciepła; HVAC; zarządzanie energią; pętla wodna

• Wydawca: Polska Akademia Nauk, Wydział IV Nauk Technicznych
• Czasopismo: Bulletin of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Technical Sciences
• Rocznik: 2022
• Tom: Vol. 70, nr 2
• Strony: art. no. e140690
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 12 poz., rys., tab.

Twórcy

autor

Radziszewska Weronika

• Institute of Fluid-Flow Machinery Polish Academy of Sciences, ul. Fiszera 14, Gdańsk, Poland

• https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2958-5156

autor

Bugaj Marcin A.

• Faculty of Power and Aeronautical Engineering, Warsaw University of Technology, 21/25 Nowowiejska St., 00-665 Warsaw, Poland

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2837-4958

autor

Łuniewski Mirosław

• Institute of Fluid-Flow Machinery Polish Academy of Sciences, ul. Fiszera 14, Gdańsk, Poland

• https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4446-4061

autor

Hoogsteen Gerwin

• Department of Electrical Engineering, Mathematica and Computer Science, University of Twente, PO BOX 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5396-3682

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Chaja Patryk

• Institute of Fluid-Flow Machinery Polish Academy of Sciences, ul. Fiszera 14, Gdańsk, Poland

• https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1820-4514

autor

Bykuć Sebastian

• Institute of Fluid-Flow Machinery Polish Academy of Sciences, ul. Fiszera 14, Gdańsk, Poland

• https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8192-5432

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Uwagi

Opracowanie rekordu ze środków MEiN, umowa nr SONP/SP/546092/2022 w ramach programu "Społeczna odpowiedzialność nauki" - moduł: Popularyzacja nauki i promocja sportu (2022-2023).