Contributions to ventilation system demand response: a case study of an educational building

The increasing share of volatile renewable energy in the electricity grid increases the importance of load flexibility and Demand Response for balancing electricity supply with demand. Flexible loads in office buildings (e.g. educational buildings) are heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVA...

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Main Authors: Maask, Vahur, Mikola, Alo, Korõtko, Tarmo, Rosin, Argo, Thalfeldt, Martin
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Account aggregation
Air conditioning
Ancillary services
Buildings
Carbon dioxide
Case studies
Education
Electric power demand
Electric power grids
Electricity
Electricity consumption
Electricity distribution
Energy management
Flexibility
Office buildings
Renewable energy
Robustness
Ventilation
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Summary:The increasing share of volatile renewable energy in the electricity grid increases the importance of load flexibility and Demand Response for balancing electricity supply with demand. Flexible loads in office buildings (e.g. educational buildings) are heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems. This paper focuses on ventilation systems as flexible loads for providing ancillary services to the grid. A number of studies consider ventilation system control based only on demand or discuss possibilities of improving system performance. Previous studies provide little or no information about ventilation system flexibility, e.g. amount of power modulation, the rate of change, and the duration of how long the power level can be held. The described information is required by aggregators to provide load aggregation services for transmission system operators (TSO). This paper proposes a robust and model-free approach to estimate ventilation system flexibility according to CO 2 concentration in extracted air. The proposed approach includes power regulation boundaries for the ventilation system and duration estimation when operating at the selected boundary. A case study is conducted on a ventilation system, which services an auditorium of an educational building. The current paper analyzes the proposed robust approach for estimating ventilation system flexibility and compares estimation to measured results.
ISSN:2267-1242
2555-0403
2267-1242
DOI:10.1051/e3sconf/202124611001