Experimental analysis of model predictive control for an energy efficient building heating system

Applied Energy

Volumn 88, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 3079-3087

  Široký, Jan ^a   Oldewurtel, Frauke ^b   Cigler, Jiří ^c   Prívara, Samuel ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WEST BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c CZECH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Building heating system; Energy savings; Model predictive control; Optimization; System identification

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY UTILIZATION; HEATING; HEATING EQUIPMENT; IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS); OPTIMIZATION; PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; RETROFITTING;

ADVANCED CONTROL; ALTERNATIVE ENERGY SOURCE; BASIC FORMULATION; BUILDING CONSTRUCTION; BUILDING CONTROLS; BUILDING HEATING; CURRENT ENERGY; ENERGY EFFICIENT BUILDING; ENERGY SAVING; EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS; GENERAL METHODOLOGIES; LOW ENERGY BUILDINGS; MINIMIZING ENERGY; PRAGUE , CZECH REPUBLIC; SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION; WEATHER PREDICTION;

MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL;

ALTERNATIVE ENERGY; CONTROL SYSTEM; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY USE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HEATING; OPTIMIZATION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CZECH REPUBLIC; PRAGUE;

EID: 79955483400     PISSN: 03062619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2011.03.009     Document Type: Article

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