Paper Info
Title
Enhancing User Comfort Models for Demand Response Solutions for Domestic Water Heating Systems.
Abstract
Demand Side Management (DSM) solutions for domestic Water Heaters (WHs) can assist consumers benefit financially by optimizing their energy usage. However, users’ dissatisfaction caused by negative impact of DSM on their comfort may force them to reject the provided solutions. To facilitate DSM adoption in practice, there is a need to account for user comfort and to provide users with control strategies to balance energy consumption and their comfort. Comfort models used for WHs typically account for only variability of the temperature of running water. This paper extends such typical user comfort modeling approaches by considering the tap water flow as a possible variable during water activities. The model to relate tap flow and users’ comfort is the first contribution of this paper. The second contribution of this paper is the flow rate control mechanism aligned with the user comfort model by means of the multi-objective optimization. Simulations for different water activities demonstrate that the control mechanism coupled with the suggested user interface can inform the user about multiple trade-offs between electric consumption and user flow discomfort, and thus can inform about possibilities to rationally save energy for water heating. A set of suggestions on how to organize the user interface is the third contribution of the paper.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.5220/0005809702010212
SMARTGREENS
Keywords
Field
DocType
Demand Side Management,Comfort Modeling,Tank Water Heaters,User Interface
Tap water,Flow (psychology),Demand response,Architectural engineering,Engineering,User interface,Energy consumption,Environmental economics,Water heating,Balance energy
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-989-758-184-7
0
0.34
References 
Authors
3
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Alexander Belov101.01
A. Vasenev2154.45
Paul J. M. Havinga31070107.89
Nirvana Meratnia463350.26