Performance improvement of an air-to-water heat pump through linear time-varying MPC with adaptive COP predictor

S Rastegarpour, R Scattolini, L Ferrarini - Journal of Process Control, 2021 - Elsevier
Air-to-water heat pumps are one of the most common and energy efficient heating systems
for buildings, particularly floor-heating plants. One way to further improve their effectiveness …

PI parameter influence on underfloor heating energy consumption and setpoint tracking in NZEBs

TM Kull, M Thalfeldt, J Kurnitski - Energies, 2020 - mdpi.com
In rooms with underfloor heating (UFH), local on–off controllers most often regulate the air
temperature with poor accuracy and energy penalties. It is known that proportional–integral …

A distributed predictive control of energy resources in radiant floor buildings

S Rastegarpour, L Ferrarini… - Journal of …, 2019 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
This paper studies the impact of using different types of energy storages integrated with a
heat pump for energy efficiency in radiant-floor buildings. In particular, the performance of …

Experimental validation of the control-oriented model of heat pumps for MPC applications

S Rastegarpour, L Caseri, L Ferrarini… - 2019 IEEE 15th …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper aims at modeling and controlling an air-to-water heat pump for building energy
efficiency applications. First, a detailed model of a generic heat pump, here called reference …

Economic NMPC for multiple buildings connected to a heat pump and thermal and electrical storages

S Rastegarpour, L Ferrarini, S Gros - IFAC-PapersOnLine, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper studies the impact of different types of energy storage integrated with a heat
pump to improve energy efficiency in multiple radiant-floor buildings. In particular, the …

Energy Management in Buildings: Lessons Learnt for Modeling and Advanced Control Design

S Rastegarpour, L Ferrarini - Frontiers in Energy Research, 2022 - frontiersin.org
This paper presents a comparative analysis of different modeling and control techniques that
can be used to tackle the energy efficiency and management problems in buildings. Multiple …