Co-simulation of a dynamic process simulator and an event-based control system: Case district heating system

Author

Nikula, Heikki ; Vesaoja, Eero ; Sierla, Seppo ; Karhela, Tommi ; Flikkema, Paul G. ; Aikala, Antti ; Miettinen, Tuomas ; Chen-Wei Yang

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Autom., Aalto Univ., Espoo, Finland

fYear

2014

fDate

16-19 Sept. 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

7

Abstract

A smart electric grid incorporating local generation and storage is an area of active research in the industrial automation community. Very little attention has been given to similar possibilities in hot water grids that are used extensively for district heating in several countries, especially in Central and Northern Europe. In this paper, possibilities for heat trade in such a grid are investigated through simulation, considering the thermo-hydraulic properties of such a grid. For the distributed automation of several independent producer-consumers, an event based IEC 61499 solution is presented. The paper proposes a co-simulation environment for a dynamic process simulator and an event based control system, which is applied to the district heating case.

Keywords

IEC standards; distributed power generation; district heating; power markets; power system simulation; smart power grids; thermal energy storage; Central Europe; IEC 61499 solution; Northern Europe; cosimulation environment; distributed industrial automation; district heating system; dynamic process simulator; event based control system; heat trading; hot water smart electric grid; independent producer-consumer; local generation; local storage; thermohydraulic properties; Automation; IEC standards; Resistance heating; Software; Solar heating; Water heating; IEC 61499; co-simulation; distributed generation; district heating; prosumer; synchronization; thermal energy networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Emerging Technology and Factory Automation (ETFA), 2014 IEEE

Conference_Location

Barcelona

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ETFA.2014.7005184

Filename

7005184