Micro combined heat and power home supply: Prospective and adaptive management achieved by computational intelligence techniques

Micro combined heat and power (CHP) systems for single residential buildings are seen as advantageous to combine both decentralized power supply and rather high overall efficiency. The latter presupposes flexible and adaptive plant management which has to mediate between energy cost minimization and user comfort aspects. This is achieved by use of computational intelligence (CI) techniques; structure and performance of the management system are shown.