Factsheets on research projects
56Reducing the effort for creating digital twins in order to improve services for large-scale heat pumps and refrigeration systems
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.
A framework for digitalization and implementation of smart energy solutions, including the use of heat pumps and connections to the energy related part of e.g. water and food processing systems. It consists of both direct and indirect (mostly price-based) control of the electricity load, heat load, etc. in integrated energy systems.
System-wide optimization of a house as energy consumer and producer by using control strategies for optimizing the self-consumption of PV electricity
Reducing the energy need and cost for cooling data centers and actively minimize the carbon footprint of the sector
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
Improved information-and data communication infrastructure within the area of individual heat pumps to support flexible operation in smart grid systems
Research project that analyses large amounts of consumer data and consumer behavior to develop digital solutions that can adjust the power consumption to fit the power production
Decarbonizing energy consumption in buildings by developing integrated renewable energy-based solutions for achieving the EU energy and climate goals
Support development of large-scale heat pump systems for faster response time and hence e.g. exploit their potential with regards to sector coupling
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
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 flexibility provision by heat pumps for automatic and manual frequency restoration reserve (aFRR, mFRR) by heat pump pooling
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
research project on the avoidance of heat pump efficiency losses by digital operation analysis” (e.g. recognition of wrong parameter settings)
Digital twin of heat generator systems as an enabler for the development of low-emission building energy technology – DZWi (DE)
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
A research project on possibilities and constraints for a concept where residential heat pumps are aggregated and controlled via the manufacturers cloud service to support the power system with demand response.
Proof of concept of fault detection for residential heat pumps using the DZWi framework