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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…
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…
Increasing Energy Resiliency to Hurricanes with Battery and Rooftop Solar Through Intelligent Control
Ninad Gaikwad, Naren Srivaths Raman, Prabir Barooah
Rooftop solar photovoltaic (PV) panels together with batteries can provide resiliency to blackouts during natural disasters such as hurricanes. Without intelligent and automated de…