Optimal energy consumption in refrigeration systems - modelling and non-convex optimisation

Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering

Volumn 90, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1426-1433

  Hovgaard, Tobias Gybel ^a,b,c   Larsen, Lars F S ^a,b   Skovrup, Morten J ^d   Jørgensen, John Bagterp ^c  

^a DANFOSS A S   (Denmark)

^b Vestas Technology R and D   (Denmark)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^d IPU Denmark   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Energy efficiency; Model predictive control; Modelling and simulation; Optimisation; Thermodynamics

Indexed keywords

CAPACITY CONSTRAINTS; CONTROL VARIABLE; COOLING CAPACITY; FEASIBLE REGIONS; FOOD QUALITY; GENERAL PURPOSE; LINEAR PROGRAMS; MODELLING AND SIMULATIONS; MULTIPLE EXTREMA; NON-LINEAR MODEL; NON-LINEAR SOLVER; NONCONVEX COST FUNCTIONS; OPTIMISATION METHOD; OPTIMISATIONS; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; REALISTIC MODEL; REFRIGERATION SYSTEM; STANDARD METHOD; SUB-PROBLEMS; SUPERMARKET REFRIGERATION;

ALGORITHMS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY UTILIZATION; MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL; PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; REFRIGERATION; REFRIGERATORS; RETAIL STORES; THERMODYNAMICS;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 84868647459     PISSN: 00084034     EISSN: 1939019X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cjce.21672     Document Type: Article

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