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Systematic Development of Application-Oriented Operating Strategies for the Example of an Industrial Heating Supply System

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  • Lukas Theisinger

    (Institute of Production Management, Technology and Machine Tools (PTW), Technical University of Darmstadt, Otto-Berndt-Str. 2, 64287 Darmstadt, Germany)

  • Michael Frank

    (Institute of Production Management, Technology and Machine Tools (PTW), Technical University of Darmstadt, Otto-Berndt-Str. 2, 64287 Darmstadt, Germany)

  • Matthias Weigold

    (Institute of Production Management, Technology and Machine Tools (PTW), Technical University of Darmstadt, Otto-Berndt-Str. 2, 64287 Darmstadt, Germany)

Abstract

The ongoing challenge to ensure a sustainable and affordable energy supply forces industrial companies to transform their energy system. This transformation usually leads to an increase in topological complexity, which in turn results in increased operational complexity. Existing approaches from the field of supervisory and optimal control are capable of mastering complex operational problems. However, due to the complex and non-transparent implementation, there is still no industrial penetration, which hinders the necessary transformation of energy systems. This work aims at establishing trust in these control approaches and presents a procedure model for the systematic development of application-oriented operating strategies for industrial energy heating systems. It combines research approaches from the fields of sequencing control and approximate MPC to extract rule-based operating strategies, which are inherently easy to understand and implementable. By splitting the procedure model into five phases, expert knowledge can be integrated in a targeted manner. The procedure model is validated by the exemplary application to an industrial heating supply system. As part of an optimization study, the operating strategy developed is compared with both an MPC strategy and a baseline strategy. While the conventional MPC approach represents the upper limit of optimality, the operating strategy developed is able to achieve comparable results. Compared to the baseline strategy, a relative reduction in operating costs of 5.4% to 37.0% is achieved.

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  • Lukas Theisinger & Michael Frank & Matthias Weigold, 2024. "Systematic Development of Application-Oriented Operating Strategies for the Example of an Industrial Heating Supply System," Energies, MDPI, vol. 17(9), pages 1-13, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jeners:v:17:y:2024:i:9:p:2086-:d:1384090
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