DECADE

Development of Efficient and Robust Controllers for Advanced Energy Systems

Coordinatore	PANEPISTIMIO DYTIKIS MAKEDONIAS (UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN MACEDONIA)    more  Organization address address: PARKO AGIOU DIMITRIOU 1 city: KOZANI postcode: 50100 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Hlias Cognome: Indos Email: send email Telefono: +30 24610 56400 Fax: +30 24610 56221
Nazionalità Coordinatore	Greece [EL]
Totale costo	759˙025 €
EC contributo	759˙025 €
Programma	FP7-PEOPLE Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
Code Call	FP7-PEOPLE-IAPP-2008
Funding Scheme	MC-IAPP
Anno di inizio	2009
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2009-04-01   -   2013-03-31

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	PANEPISTIMIO DYTIKIS MAKEDONIAS (UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN MACEDONIA)  Organization address address: PARKO AGIOU DIMITRIOU 1 city: KOZANI postcode: 50100 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Hlias Cognome: Indos Email: send email Telefono: +30 24610 56400 Fax: +30 24610 56221	EL (KOZANI)	coordinator	215˙349.00
2	Parametric Optimization Solutions Limited  Organization address address: "GREAT CAMBRIDGE ROAD, 758" city: London postcode: EN1 3PN contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Efstratios Cognome: Psistikopoulos Email: send email Telefono: +44 7803 205551 Fax: +44 307 5946606	UK (London)	participant	265˙704.00
3	ESTIA CONSULTING & ENGINEERING S.A.  Organization address address: 1st Km THERMI-MAKEDONIA AIRPORT 1 city: "THESSALONIKI, MACEDONIA" postcode: 57001 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Dimitris Cognome: Konstantinidis Email: send email Telefono: -489781 Fax: -492207	EL ("THESSALONIKI, MACEDONIA")	participant	139˙770.00
4	Pannon Egyetem  Organization address address: EGYETEM U 10 city: VESZPREM postcode: 8200 contact info Titolo: Prof. Nome: Jiri Cognome: Klemes Email: send email Telefono: 3688421664 Fax: 3688428275	HU (VESZPREM)	participant	138˙202.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'The main objective of the DECADE proposal is to promote a significant increase in the range of energy control problems to which advanced optimisation-based control can be reliably applied. This will be achieved through the development of an electronic look-up function tailor-made for the specific energy systems. It can retrofit onto existing control hardware, or on new hardware. The above objectives will be achieved by promoting and implementing a well structured ToK programme between (i) academic partners (University of Western Macedonia (UOWM, Greece), and University of Pannonia (UNIPAN, Hungary)), with distinguished research activities in the areas of process and energy modelling, simulation and optimisation techniques including pilot plant demonstrations, (ii) one high-tech SME (Parametric Optimization Solutions, ParOS, UK) providing advanced control solutions to the energy, process and automation industries and (iii) one engineering SME (ESTIA, Greece) providing energy saving solutions (Combined Heat and Power, Fuel Cells, etc) and related instrumentation facilities in the process, energy and power industries.'

Introduzione (Teaser)

EU-funded scientists developed advanced control algorithms and tools suitable for a broad range of energy systems that face significant operational difficulties and limitations.

Descrizione progetto (Article)

Electronic control is a pervasive technology that affects quality of modern life. Model predictive control (MPC) repeatedly and efficiently solves an optimisation problem online to determine the optimal control action. Unfortunately, this method is expensive and time consuming to install.

The 'Development of efficient and robust controllers for advanced energy systems' (DECADE) project developed an advanced control technology to monitor a system or process without requiring expensive tools. The technology involves an electronic look-up function tailor-made for specific energy systems. It can be retrofitted on to existing or new control hardware. Fast and accurate control can be achieved without the need of a computer.

The output is identical to what would be achieved using MPC approaches, but without the computational overhead. The original MPC problem is recast as a multi-parametric optimisation problem, in which sensor measurements act as parameters. Solving this offline using the developed tools yields the full explicit control law in the space of these parameters.

A transfer-of-knowledge programme between academic partners and small- and medium-sized enterprises enabled the achievement of project objectives.

By taking the computational burden offline, DECADE addresses applications that were previously off limits for model-based control, opening up exciting new markets.