[Hiwi] Development of an electro-thermal house simulation

[bferon]

The PV-CHP research project aims to develop a practical smart home controlled by an Energy Management System (EMS) including both electrical and heating systems i.e. photovoltaic panels (PV), battery, combined heat and power (CHP) as well as heat pump (HP) units. This EMS can optimize energy usage for different objectives, such as maximum self-consumption of electrical power, or offer of ancillary services for future smart grid applications.
In order to test accurately the different Energy Management System (EMS) developed, we need to build an accurate electro-thermal model of a house to control.

Your tasks:

The student:
• Shall build an electro-thermal house simulation using SimulationX (Modelica language software) and an internal library including models of thermal devices (house model, thermal storage, heat devices,…).
• Shall investigate the integration of Dymola (another Modelica software) model house into SimulationX
• Shall investigate the integration a controlling layer (implemented in Simulink)

The expected (not especially required) skills of the student:
-knowledge in modelling of thermal house
-knowledge in Modelica Software (Dymola or SimulationX)
-knowledge in Simulink

If you don’t have especially these skills but that you are motivated, don’t hesitate to contact me…
Contact:

Baptiste Feron
Tel. +49-241-80-49746
BFeron@eonerc.rwth-aachen.de
ACS | Institute for Automation of Complex Power Systems
ERC | E.ON Energy Research Center
RWTH Aachen University
Mathieustr. 10, 52074 Aachen, Germany