Experiment Specification TC12.TS02.ES01

Co-Simulation of Electric Boiler Activation for Excess Power Consumption with Model-predictive Control

Experiment Specification Definition

ID

TC12.TS02.ES01

Reference to Test Specification

TC12.TS02

Title of Experiment

Co-Simulation of Electric Boiler Activation for Excess Power Consumption with Model-predictive Control

Research Infrastructure

N/A

Experiment Realisation

The experiment is implemented as co-simulation using mosaik with a simulator synchronization step size of 15 minutes.

Experiment Setup (concrete lab equipment)

Dedicated simulation components are implemented as FMUs for Co-Simulation:

  • power system simulation: the power system is implemented as pandapower model, using consecutive power flow calculations to simulate the power system; the electric boilers are represented as PQ loads;
  • thermal network simulation: the local heating network and the electric boilers are modelled with Modelica (and compiled with Dymola); this model includes the proportional controllers that actuate the boilers;
  • model-predictive controller: the controller logic is implemented in Python
Experimental Design and Justification

This is a basic co-simulation setup using the mosaik environment with FMUs.

Precision of equipment and measurement uncertainty

N/A

Storage of experiment data

The output from the individual simulation components is stored as time series data (HDF5 data format).