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Fakultät für Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik

The ambitious targets of the energy transition, necessitate to leverage all existing potential for efficiency increase. Put differently, in terms of control and automation, different energy carriers and infrastructures have be considered from a holistic point of view. Prominent examples are building control, which combines electrical and thermal aspects (heat and cold) or the trend towards coupled operation of power grids and gas networks.

In this context, we work on optimization and control for multi-energy systems including the definition of benchmark problems for algorithm design. 

Selected publications:

  • Sass, S., Faulwasser, T., Hollermann, D. E., Kappatou, C. D., Sauer, D., Schütz, T., ... & Müller, D. (2020). Model Compendium, Data, and Optimization Benchmarks for Sector-Coupled Energy Systems. Computers & Chemical Engineering, 106760.
  • de Avila Ferreira, T., Wuillemin, Z., Faulwasser, T., Salzmann, C., & Bonvin, D. (2019). Enforcing optimal operation in solid-oxide fuel-cell systems. Energy, 181, 281-293.
  • Fokken, Eike, Tillmann Mühlpfordt, Timm Faulwasser, Simone Göttlich, and Oliver Kolb. "Modeling and simulation of sector-coupled networks: A gas-power benchmark." arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.02416 (2020).