Flexibility of Smart Grids using Power to Heat: A Simulation and Data Valorization Platform
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Flexibility of Smart Grids using Power to Heat: A Simulation and Data Valorization Platform
Fri, 23/02/2018 - 11:15 to 12:15
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Speaker:
Jörg Worlitschek
Affiliation:
Lucerne University of Applied Sciences & Arts, Competence Center Thermal Energy Storage
Synopsis:
Flexibility of Smart Grids using Power to Heat: A Simulation and Data Valorization Platform.
Philipp Schütz & Jörg Worlitschek;
Lucerne University of Applied Sciences & Arts, Competence Center Thermal Energy Storage, www.hslu.ch/tes; joerg.worlitschek@hslu.ch
Heating and cooling applications are responsible for more than 40 % of Europe’s energy consumption. To facilitate the implementation of heat pumps into smart grids for residential heating, the heat consumption has to be decoupled from its production to gain flexibility. In our contribution, we present on the one hand an experimentally verified modelling platform to explore the boundaries of flexibility achievable by the combination of heat pumps and thermal storage systems in residential heating. On the other hand, we present a real example of such system, i.e. the pooling of heat pumps and hot water boilers into a virtual power plant and novel applications for the valorisation of the resulting monitoring data.
Biography:
Prof. Dr. Jörg Worlitschek (* 1970) studied chemical engineering at the University of Erlangen and graduated ‘with honors’ from the Technical University of Berlin in energy and process engineering. He worked at the Institute of Biotechnology in Berlin and in the context of a research fellowship at the University of Pusan ??in South Korea. From 1999 to 2003 he was at the Institute of Process Engineering at ETH Zurich as Assistant and made a PhD in the field of Thermal Process Engineering (Optimization of Batch Crystallization). From 2003 to 2012, he worked at Mettler Toledo in USA and Switzerland. He led areas for Automated reactors & calorimetry (heat of reaction) as well as for laboratory & production software. Since February 2012, Jörg Worlitschek is at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences & Arts, he is leading the research group Thermal Energy Storage and holds lectures in Thermodynamics, Process Engineering and Energy Storage Systems. The focus of his research are thermal energy storage, crystallization processes and heat transfer. Jörg Worlitschek has written numerous articles for scientific conferences and journals. More information on the research group Thermal Energy Storage can be found at www.hslu.ch/tes.