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WP1.2 Coordination Meeting March 21, 2019

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Meeting Report WP1.2 ‘Modelica library for MPC’

1. MEETING SUBJECT, DATE

Subject: WP1.2

Date: 21-03-2019

Location: Skype for Business

Minutes taken by: Lieve Helsen (KU Leuven)

2. PARTICIPANTS

Company/Organisation Participant

KU Leuven Lieve Helsen (WP Leader)

KU Leuven Filip Jorissen

KU Leuven Iago Cupeiro

KU Leuven Javier Arroyo (now @ LBNL)

SDU Kzrysztof Arendt

LBNL David Blum

NREL Yanfei Li

NREL Kyle Benne

Engie Valentin

LBNL Antoine Gautier

PNNL Sen Huang

UniZG Tea Zakula

3. AGENDA and REPORT

3.1. Approval/Modification Agenda

Agenda is approved

3.2. Introduction Tea Zakula

Assistant professor from Zagreb University, now @ LBNL for 6 months. She has a PhD @ MIT on MPC and has been working on MPC for 10 years. Implementing multi-zone inverse comprenhensive room transfer functions models (miCRTF). These models have similarities with RC grey-box models but their parameters are easier to estimate. Tea and her team have MPC running in real buildings. Particularly, a 20 zones office building with FCU, fully glazed, concrete slabs between floors. In thisi building they observe that the MPC clearly shifts cooling to night time for optimal efficiency.

3.3. Aachen meeting

Breakout sessions Finalized.

To do: Dave: Emulator Peer Review Guide and Checklist to be sent around.

3.4. Status and further discussion where needed

a. Emulators

Filip: modifications made based on review, working on documentation.

Kzrysztof: requests to share Filip’s model (not yet overwrite blocks included) to check the documentation (template is being finalized): is currently available in pull request to IDEAS 996.

b. BOP-TEST

i. Document ‘Development requirements and guide’ finalized? (Dave and reviewers)

Roel and Kzrysztof gave feedback.

ii. Design of the test case for BOP-TEST (Sen)

The emulators are benchmark models (assigned a fixed weather data file etc …), extra feature is made to change the climate and resize the devices (this is optional). Limit the number of benchmark cases! Focus on emulators attached to one climate each, additional functionalities are for a later phase.

iii. KPIs calculation module (Javier)

The core KPIs concluded from previous IBPSA meeting are listed, please review the ‘Development requirements and guide’ (action all). The KPI calculator module lives within the kpis folder of the BOPTEST repository. It is shown the main functionality of the KPI calculator prototype software for testcase2.

A module for generating data has also been initiated. This module gathers data from the test case (weather, internal gains, energy price profiles, emission factors ...), it processes the data, ensures proper indexing and key values, and it finally brings it within the wrapped.fmu when deploying a test case. This wrapped.fmu is ultimatelly used by BOPTEST to simulate the emulator model. A convention should be agreed in Aachen regarding the columns and format of the final data set which should be, at the same time, aligned with the different agreed scenarios. A predefined format of such data set will enable the forecast module to retrieve the data required by the users for their optimal controllers.

Time integration can be chosen to be done internally in the modelica model or externally in python (both give the same results for the tested case, communication times are kept the same as the time steps in the model).

c. Review MPC description template: finalized? (Iago & Jan)

Waiting for Jesus’ review. To do: Iago send a reminder.

d. Modelica library for MPC

No updates

3.5. Initiatives for joint papers

a. MPC review paper

Ready for internal review (journal submission)

b. Scaling of different optimization tools

Filip & Gerald (conference + extension for journal submission). Dave is interested in the results.

3.6. Miscellaneous

Time to close the meeting ;-)

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