Sustainable building integrated energy test-bed

Author

Valdivia, Virgilio ; O´Connell, S. ; Gonzalez-Espin, Fran ; El-din Mady, A. ; Kouramas, Konstantinos ; De Tommasi, L. ; Wiese, H. ; Carballido Villaverde, B. ; Foley, Raymond ; Cychowski, Marcin ; Hertig, Lionel ; Hamilton, Dean ; Pesch, Dirk

Author_Institution

Penrose Bus. Center, United Technol. Res. Center Ireland, Cork, Ireland

fYear

2014

fDate

24-27 June 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

This paper describes a low-energy test-bed installed in a building that integrates an electrical microgrid and a thermal system. The test-bed is controlled by following a hierarchical control strategy ranging from local controllers of subsystems to power system coordination and energy optimization. Experimental results of the test-bed operation (both electrical and thermal side) are presented and some challenges for proper system operation (such as stability and seamless transition) are described.

Keywords

building integrated photovoltaics; building management systems; distributed power generation; optimisation; power distribution control; power grids; electrical microgrid; energy optimization; hierarchical control strategy; power system coordination; subsystems controller; sustainable building integrated energy test bed; thermal system; Batteries; Boilers; Buildings; Cogeneration; Microgrids; Power system stability; Thermal stability; Distributed Energy Generation; Integrated Energy Management; Microgrids;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Electronics for Distributed Generation Systems (PEDG), 2014 IEEE 5th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Galway

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PEDG.2014.6878709

Filename

6878709