Thermodynamic Simulation of a Detached House with District Heating Subcentral

Author

Gustafsson, J. ; Delsing, J. ; van Deventer, J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Electr. Eng., Lulea Univ. of Technol., Lulea

fYear

2008

fDate

7-10 April 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

8

Abstract

A physical thermodynamic model of a detached house connected to a low-tempered district heating network is presented. The model is created in Mathworks Simulink@ with a pedagogic approach in mind, e.g. masked subsystems divided in to physical components. The house model is easily modified to any detached house. Provision is also made to make it scalable to multi-family houses. The district heating substation modeled is a parallel coupled plate heat exchanger, which is the most common substation in smaller buildings such as villas. The purpose of creating the model was to provide a platform for test and evaluation of new control methods for district heating system based on wireless sensor networks. Initial validation of the model is presented.

Keywords

heat exchangers; power system simulation; substations; wireless sensor networks; Mathworks Simulinkreg; detached house; district heating substation; parallel coupled plate heat exchanger; thermodynamic simulation; wireless sensor networks; Cogeneration; Computational modeling; DH-HEMTs; Heat transfer; Power generation; Substations; System testing; Thermodynamics; Trigeneration; Water heating; District heating; energy; heat; simulation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems Conference, 2008 2nd Annual IEEE

Conference_Location

Montreal, Que.

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2149-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2150-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SYSTEMS.2008.4519054

Filename

4519054