Journal
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
Volume 168, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2022.112830
Keywords
Building climate control; Nonlinear model predictive control; Renewable energy system; Thermal comfort; Carbon footprint
Funding
- National Science Foundation (NSF) [1643244]
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Sustainable energy sources and the use of model predictive control method are promising solutions for reducing energy consumption and carbon footprint in the building sector. This study develops a nonlinear model predictive control framework for building climate control with renewable energy systems, and simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of the framework in minimizing electricity costs and improving sustainability.
Sustainable energy sources are promising solutions for reducing carbon footprint and environmental impacts within the building sectors. Reducing energy consumption while ensuring thermal comfort for occupants is now an essential task in building climate control. Two possible ways to cut down building energy consumption are implementing renewable and sustainable energy sources, such as solar energy and geothermal energy, and adopting the model predictive control method. In this study, we develop a novel nonlinear model predictive control (NMPC) framework for climate control of buildings with renewable energy systems to minimize elec-tricity costs. A nonlinear dynamic model of the building climate and renewable energy systems, including temperature, humidity, thermal comfort, geothermal heat pump, and solar panels, is first constructed based on mass and energy balance equations. The nonlinear dynamic model is then integrated into the proposed NMPC framework, which iteratively solves a nonlinear programming problem to generate the optimal control inputs which minimize energy consumption and carbon footprints for sustainability. A simulation case study on con -trolling a building located on the Cornell University campus is conducted to demonstrate the capability of renewable energy sources to reduce building energy consumption using the proposed NMPC framework. The results show the NMPC framework could efficiently minimize total electricity cost and constraint violation for thermal comfort to 12.9% with no more than 0.2 of violation on predicted mean value index in different seasons. Implementing an electricity storage component could reduce the electricity cost by 19%. The results indicate better sustainability for the smart building using sustainable energy sources and the NMPC framework.
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