Optimal operation of heat supply systems with piping network

Ryohei Yokoyama, Hiroyuki Kitano and Tetsuya Wakui

Energy, 2017, vol. 137, issue C, 888-897

Abstract: It is expected that energy saving may be attained by connecting heat source equipment and air conditioning equipment in multiple buildings with piping network and operating heat source equipment flexibly in consideration of heat demands required by air conditioning equipment. In this paper, an optimization method is proposed to operate such heat supply systems with piping network rationally. Mass flow rates and temperatures of water are adopted as basic variables to express heat flow rates as well as pressure and heat losses in piping segments. The discreteness for the selection of piping segments for water flow are also taken into account. To avoid treating the nonlinearity directly, mass flow rates are discretized, and the optimization problem is finally formulated as a mixed-integer linear programming one, and its suboptimal solution is derived efficiently by a two-stage approach. A case study is conducted for a heat supply system for space cooling and heating of an exhibition center with multiple buildings. Through the study, the validity and effectiveness of the proposed optimization method is shown in terms of solution optimality and computation time. In addition, it is shown how the primary energy consumption can be reduced using piping network.

Keywords: Air conditioning; Heat supply; Piping network; Optimal operation; Mixed-integer linear programming (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2017.03.146

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