Study of the optimal control problem formulation for modulating air-to-water heat pumps connected to a residential floor heating system

Energy and Buildings

Volumn 45, Issue , 2012, Pages 43-53

  Verhelst, Clara ^a   Logist, Filip ^a   Van Impe, Jan ^a   Helsen, Lieve ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Floor heating; Modulating heat pump; Optimal control

Indexed keywords

AIR-TO-WATER HEAT PUMP; COEFFICIENT OF PERFORMANCE; COMPUTATIONAL POWER; CONTINUOUS OPERATION; CONTROL PERFORMANCE; CONTROL STRATEGIES; CONVENTIONAL HEATING; CONVEX APPROXIMATION; ENERGY COST; ENERGY COST SAVINGS; FAST CONVERGENCE; FLOOR HEATING; FLOOR HEATING SYSTEMS; GLOBAL MINIMA; HEAT PUMPS; LARGE POWER; NONLINEAR FORMULATION; OPTIMAL CONTROL PROBLEM; OPTIMAL CONTROLS; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; PART LOAD; SIGNIFICANT DETERIORATIONS; SUPPLY WATER TEMPERATURE; TARIFF STRUCTURES; WIDE SPREADS;

CONTROL; COST FUNCTIONS; COSTS; CURVE FITTING; FLOORS; HEATING; HEATING EQUIPMENT; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; PUMPS;

HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS;

EID: 84855239333     PISSN: 03787788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2011.10.015     Document Type: Article

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