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A Central Chilled Water Plant Model for Designing Learning-Based Controllers
Zhong Guo, Prabir Barooah
We describe a framework of modeling a central chilled water plant (CCWP) that consists of an aggregate cooling coil, a number of heterogeneous chillers and cooling towers, and a ch…
Comments on characterizing demand flexibility to provide power grid services
Prabir Barooah
Many loads have flexibility in demand that can be used to provide ancillary services to power grids. A large body of literature exists on designing algorithms to coordinate actions…
Optimal Control of District Cooling Energy Plant with Reinforcement Learning and MPC
Zhong Guo, Aditya Chaudhari, Austin R. Coffman +1
We consider the problem of optimal control of district cooling energy plants (DCEPs) consisting of multiple chillers, a cooling tower, and a thermal energy storage (TES), in the pr…
Reinforcement Learning for Optimal Control of a District Cooling Energy Plant
Zhong Guo, Austin R. Coffman, Prabir Barooah
District cooling energy plants (DCEPs) consisting of chillers, cooling towers, and thermal energy storage (TES) systems consume a considerable amount of electricity. Optimizing the…
A unified framework for coordination of thermostatically controlled loads
Austin Coffman, Ana Bušić, Prabir Barooah
A collection of thermostatically controlled loads (TCLs) -- such as air conditioners and water heaters -- can vary their power consumption within limits to help the balancing autho…
MPC-Based Hierarchical Control of a Multi-Zone Commercial HVAC System
Naren Srivaths Raman, Rahul Umashankar Chaturvedi, Zhong Guo +1
This paper presents a novel architecture for model predictive control (MPC) based indoor climate control of multi-zone buildings to provide energy efficiency. Unlike prior works we…