A model predictive control strategy to optimize the performance of radiant floor heating and cooling systems in office buildings

Jaewan Joe and Panagiota Karava

Applied Energy, 2019, vol. 245, issue C, 65-77

Abstract: This paper introduces a smart operation strategy based on model predictive control (MPC) to optimize the performance of hydronic radiant floor systems in office buildings and presents results from its implementation in an actual building. Our MPC approach uses dynamic estimates and predictions of zone loads and temperatures, outdoor weather conditions, and HVAC system models to minimize energy consumption and cost while meeting equipment and thermal comfort constraints. It includes data-driven building models estimated and validated using data from an actual building, and deploys an optimizer based on constraint linear/quadratic programming with hard comfort bounds that yields a global minimum with predicted exogenous disturbances. The MPC results show 34% cost savings compared to baseline feedback control during the cooling season and 16% energy use reduction during the heating season. Also, the radiant floor system with the predictive controller shows 29–50% energy savings when compared with a baseline air delivery system serving two identical thermal zones located in the same building.

Keywords: Radiant floor system; Thermally Activated Building Systems (TABS); Model predictive control; Field implementation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2019.03.209

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