Factsheets on heat pump operation optimization

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Cost and emission reduction by optimized heat pump operation and grid services in balancing and ancillary service markets

Optimal utilization of several asset types including heat pumps for district heating supply

The PreHEAT cloud offers data-based services for connected heat pumps, such as advanced control, variable tariffs and can be expanded to specialized services to the electricity markets

Unlocking synergies between small-scale excess heat sources and district heating networks

Aims to reduce heat production costs for the system and to ensure that heat pumps can help stabilize the current and future electricity system.

Development of concepts regarding optimizing the operating conditions of the heat pump and monitoring of the heat pump for giving notifications when the heat pump is ill and points out the component causing the illness

Decarbonizing energy consumption in buildings by developing integrated renewable energy-based solutions for achieving the EU energy and climate goals

System-wide optimization of a house as energy consumer and producer by using control strategies for optimizing the self-consumption of PV electricity

Support development of large-scale heat pump systems for faster response time and hence e.g. exploit their potential with regards to sector coupling

Provides opportunity for test of heat pumps systems in future flexible energy systems with sector coupling

Reducing the effort for creating digital twins in order to improve services for large-scale heat pumps and refrigeration systems

Trusted Data Sharing platform with 24/7 access to energy related data and digital tools

Improved information-and data communication infrastructure within the area of individual heat pumps to support flexible operation in smart grid systems

System to monitor and optimize the indoor climate based on objective and subjective measurements

Combined hardware/software solution to provide live transparent performance monitoring of heat pumps and early warning systems for predictive maintenance (to be implemented)

Software program with a user interface which enable fleet management of typically residential heat pumps or other ventilation products

The platform myUpway provides online monitoring and control services, including surveillance of heat pumps energy consumption and fault alarms as well as remote control possibilities for METRO THERM products

research project that studies and develops next-generation technology for optimal control of heat-pump systems, in particular a “install-and-forget” type of system for retrofitting of residential heat pumps

Research project to develop data-driven heat pump models which would estimate the power consumption of a heat pump using data measured during operation from current installations

A data driven lab is being developed for heat pump systems, which acts as a virtual platform to improve heat pumps control strategies, fault detection and diagnosis and communication with local energy grids

Combined hardware/software solution including an intelligent compressor module, a gateway, a cloud, a heat pump controller and a smart connect app, providing troubleshooting, data analysis, commissioning tools, monitoring and end-user apps.

Smart replacement expansion valve for superheat control for HVAC systems with 30-500 kW heat supply capacity

Large air/water heat pump system operated on excess electricity from wind to substitute natural gas in a district heating network in Austria

Heat pump product by the Austrian manufacturer iDM which optimizes electricity consumption as a function of hourly electricity prices and that allows for increasing PV self-consumption

IoT enabled heat pump by KNV/Nibe with Smart-Price-Adaption based on hourly electricity prices, which anticipates weather changes based on online weather forecasts

Protective gear for heat pumps and cooling units based on monitoring data with gateway solution for fault detection and diagnosis

Research project on performance optimization of batch processes with the help of digital twins, the use case was a heat pump during performance testing on a test bench.

Research project on online, predictive, and holistic, reconfigurable control for industrial energy supply systems with energy storage, flexible consumers for electricity networks (demand side management with dynamic tariffs), increased efficiency by optimum control of the system and waste heat recovery with high temperature heat pumps

Development of a soft sensor based on vibration measurements of a heat pump fan

Research project on the avoidance of heat pump efficiency losses by digital operation analysis” (e.g. recognition of wrong parameter settings)

IoT solution for remote diagnostics for heat pumps to guarantee efficient and safe operation of the HP and facilitate maintenance workflows

Research project on development of a digital representation of different energy conversion systems (heat pump/fuel cell) and an infrastructure for Hardware-in-the-loop test to shorten development times

ZEB Laboratory office building with connected heat pumps to optimize the use of on-site generated electricity and heat storage