Journal Article

Study of an Integrated Control Method for Heating Substations Based on Prediction of Water-Supply Temperature and Indoor Temperature

Jia, Meng, Gao, Xiaoyu, Cao, Shanshan, Qi, Chengying

2022

Overview

The refined control of heating substations is of great significance for on-demand heating provision and for the efficient operation of district heating systems (DHSs). This paper proposes an integrated control strategy for substations based on the prediction of the water-supply temperature and indoor temperature. Firstly, online sequential extreme learning machine (OS-ELM) is used to predict the water-supply temperature. Then, a linear prediction model is established to predict the indoor temperature. Finally, the integrated regulation strategy is established with the goal of minimizing operational costs, aiming at ensuring heating quality and meeting the limits of the flow rate and of the supply- and return-water temperatures. The heat-saving rate, power-saving rate and indoor-temperature satisfactory rate are introduced to evaluate the regulation effect of the proposed method. The field study results show that the performance index of operation executed with the regulation strategy proposed in this paper is 9.31%, 16.33% and 20.87% higher than that without our energy-saving regulation strategy respectively. The fluctuations in the water-supply pressure and differential pressure of the secondary network are significantly reduced, and the energy-saving effect is obvious.

• Publisher: MDPI AG
• Subject: Algorithms / Artificial neural networks / Control methods / Controllers / Costs / Differential pressure / District heating / district heating system / Electrical transmission / Energy conservation / Energy consumption / energy saving / Flow rates / Flow velocity / Green buildings / Heat exchangers / Heating / Heating systems / Indoor environments / indoor-temperature prediction / Integrated control / Internet of Things / Linear prediction / Machine learning / Neural networks / Optimization / OS-ELM / Performance indices / Pollutants / Prediction models / Radiation / Simulation / Substations / Water conservation / Water shortages / Water supply / Water temperature / water-supply-temperature prediction