This section provides downloads and links to articles, papers, reports and diagrams, plus relevant and related guides.
The project deliverables will also be accessible here, and shall be added to whilst the project progresses.
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We now have all five datasheets available for our Demo and Case Study Buildings - Libeznice School, Infrax/Fluvius, Haus M, Ter Potterie and Solarwind.
These detail the energy emissions, general building data, building features as well as building description and those involved in the design. They are available to download individually through our technology page download section and our Demo and Case Study building info pages here: Solarwind Ter Potterie Infrax/Fluvius Haus M Libeznice
The whole set as a single PDF can be downloaded from this page.
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The aim of the hybridGEOTABS project within the EU Horizon2020 programme is to perform research and developments necessary to put hybridGEOTABS closer to the market. The results show that the system can provide 10-60 % reduction in CO2 emissions at an investment price lower than 5 % (typically lower than 3 %) of the total building investment.
The hybridGEOTABS system uses the combination of Thermally Activated Building System (TABS) powered by ground-coupled heat pump as a primary source and a suitable secondary source, with advanced automation system (Model-based Predictive Control, MPC). This combination enables us to operate the heat pump under better performance conditions and to use the building thermal mass efficiently, which in turn results in better system performance, energy and CO2 savings, while maintaining high indoor environmental quality.
The system is fully compatible with the EU policies, such as the SET Plan, EPBD and European Green Deal, and has the potential to contribute to the climatic goals set by the EU.
In order to attract more attention and facilitate wider application of the hybridGEOTABS system in future building projects, following points need attention on the EU level:
Promotion of Integrated Approaches within Financial Instruments
Further Research – hybridGEOTABS Buildings as Smart Grid Prosumers
Raising General Awareness of the hybridGEOTABS Concept
Download D5.7 document here
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Authors: Iago Cupeiro Figueroa (KU Leuven), Jiri Cigler (Energoklastr)
This document contains the final version of deliverable 3.2 “Report/paper describing the mathematical formulation of different objective functions for Hybrid GEOTABS buildings MPC”, corresponding to Work Package 3 of the GEOTABShybrid project “Development of an MPC Toolchain for the hybrid MPC-GEOTABS concepts”.
This deliverable contains a description of different formulations of the MPC objective function for the GEOTABShybrid concept, taking into account the features of GEOTABShybrid buildings as well as the building user preferences. Different objectives can beoptimised by MPC, among them: energy cost, (primary) energy use, indoor environmental quality, peak power, share of renewable energy sources, flexibility... as long as these objectives can be quantified in a mathematical way. To facilitate the integration of renewable energy sources (on a broader scale), connection of the MPC framework to energy grid(s) is realised by setting appropriate pricing schemes or communicating optimal load profiles. Thermal comfort is usually treated as a soft constraint, allowing a limited level of comfort violations, in order to keep the optimisation problem solvable. Non-linearities make the optimisation problem farmore complex and are avoided when justified.
Download Deliverable D3.2