Using a Thermal Energy Storage to Provide Flexibility for Heat Pump Optimization Control with Rapid Control Prototyping and SG Ready Standard

Keywords

Heat pump, Energy management, SG ready, Thermal energy storage, Control strategy, Optimization, hardware-in-the-loop

Abstract

The coupling of the heat and power sector is required as supply and demand in the German electricity mix drift further and further apart with a high percentage of renewable energy. Heat pumps in combination with thermal energy storage systems can be a useful way to couple the heat and power sectors. This paper presents a hardware-in-the-loop test bench for experimental investigation of optimized control strategies for heat pumps. 24-hour experiments are carried out to test whether the heat pump is able to serve optimized schedules generated by a MATLAB algorithm. The results show that the heat pump is capable of following the generated schedules, and the maximum deviation of the operational time between schedule and experiment is only 3%. Additionally, the system can serve the demand for space heating and DHW at any time.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Thomas Kemmler
AU  - Rainer Maier
AU  - Christine Widmann
AU  - Bernd Thomas
PY  - 2019/11
DA  - 2019/11
TI  - Using a Thermal Energy Storage to Provide Flexibility for Heat Pump Optimization Control with Rapid Control Prototyping and SG Ready Standard
BT  - Proceedings of the 13th International Renewable Energy Storage Conference 2019 (IRES 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 132
EP  - 136
SN  - 2589-4943
UR  - https://www.atlantis-press.com/article/125923325
ID  - Kemmler2019/11
ER  -