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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dear all,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>here is a question from a student using TRNSYS for
his master's thesis:</FONT></DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=koen.bogaerts@student.kuleuven.be
href="mailto:koen.bogaerts@student.kuleuven.be">Koen Bogaerts</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=Leen.Peeters@mech.kuleuven.be
href="mailto:Leen.Peeters@mech.kuleuven.be">Leen Peeters</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, February 11, 2009 10:20
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> mail trnsys</DIV>
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<DIV>Dear all,<BR><BR>I'm trying to create a Model Predictive Control (MPC)
for a micro-CHP unit. (so a control stategy that bases it's future actuator
signal on what it expects to occur) <BR>Each timestep a prediction of the
next 24 hours should be made. After an optimization of this prediction
horizon, the optimized input values for that timefrane are passed to the
TRNSYS model to determine the CHP's working startegy for those 24 h..
<BR><BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have my main building model in TRNSYS, i.e.
the model that recieves the working strategy and thus acts as the real
building.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I wondered whether there is a way to use the same
building model for the prediction as well. To so so, there might be two
options:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>either: at midnight, making a copy of the TRNSYS
main model (i.e.a copy that has the same values for the physical state
variables as the main model at that timestep) and add some noise to weather
data and internal gains, use that copy on a larger timestep and base the
predictionon on that</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>either: use the main model for the prediction as
well, but assume you start a prediction at timestep A, run the model till
timestep B (24 hours later), return the simulation back to timestep A and run
the main simulation ,....</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Is one of those an option in TRNSYS? </FONT><FONT
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<DIV>Regards,<BR><BR>---<BR>Koen Bogaerts<BR>University of Leuven,
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