Energy-efficient building management via model predictive control

The growing world population and energy consumption, along with the depletion of fossil energy resources and increasing concern regarding the pollution of the environment, make the world-energy problem the largest challenge for technology in the forthcoming decades [1]. Distributed generation could play a major role in the technological changes of the new electricity service paradigm. The use of localized energy sources is only one of the faces of energy management in buildings. A large part of the produced energy is used for heating and cooling systems, in order to maintain acceptable levels of comfort for the occupants of the apartments (hereafter referred to as "users"). Therefore, at a local level, there is a need for the definition and the testing of intelligent algorithms that can automatically manage distributed energy sources, at the same time taking into account the management of heating/ cooling systems

Energy-efficient building management via model predictive control

The growing world population and energy consumption, along with the depletion of fossil energy resources and increasing concern regarding the pollution of the environment, make the world-energy problem the largest challenge for technology in the forthcoming decades [1]. Distributed generation could play a major role in the technological changes of the new electricity service paradigm. The use of localized energy sources is only one of the faces of energy management in buildings. A large part of the produced energy is used for heating and cooling systems, in order to maintain acceptable levels of comfort for the occupants of the apartments (hereafter referred to as "users"). Therefore, at a local level, there is a need for the definition and the testing of intelligent algorithms that can automatically manage distributed energy sources, at the same time taking into account the management of heating/ cooling systems

Hibrid energy generation with pumped hydro storage

This project proposes an installation of a demonstrative site of hydro energy storage system as a way to effectively accumulate excess energy generated from renewable sources in a form of the gravitational potential energy of pumped and stored water. Hydropower is then extracted from flowing water by means of a turbine as a useful mechanical power, which, in its turn, is converted into electricity using an electric generator

Study and development of the technologies of renewable energy and smart grids for implementation in the Republic of Kazakhstan

The results presented confirm the feasibility of the use of renewable energy sources in the environmental and weather conditions of Kazakhstan; they open new challenges and directions for further research in the area of energy-converting devices, integration into the main electricity grid, and data acquisition systems for renewable energy sources