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Research Paper | Mechanical Manufacturing and Automation | India | Volume 13 Issue 10, October 2024 | Popularity: 5.1 / 10
Smart Manufacturing using Control and Optimization
Praveen
Abstract: Energy management has become a major concern in the past two decades with the increasing energy prices, overutilization of natural resources and increased carbon emissions. According to the department of Energy the industrial sector solely consumes 22.4% of the energy produced in the country. This calls for an urgent need for the industries to design and implement energy efficient practices by analysing the energy consumption, electricity data and making use of energy efficient equipment. Although, utility companies are providing incentives to consumer participating in Demand Response programs, there isn?t an active implementation of energy management principles from the consumer?s side. Technological advancements in controls, automation, optimization and big data can be harnessed to achieve this which in other words is referred to as ?Smart Manufacturing?. In this research energy management techniques have been designed for two SEU (Significant Energy Use) equipment HVAC systems, Compressors and load shifting in manufacturing environments using control and optimization. HVAC systems being one of the major energy consumer in manufacturing indus - tries was modelled using the generic lumped parameter method. An Electroplating facility named Electro - Spec was modelled in Simulink and was validated using the real data that was collected from the facility. The Mean Absolute Error (MAE) was about 0.39 for the model which is suitable for implementing controllers for the purpose of energy management. MATLAB and Simulink were used to design and implement the state - of - the - art Model Predictive Control for the purpose of energy efficient control.
Keywords: HVAC systems, Model Predictive Control, Smart Manufacturing Research Milestones, Demand Side Management
Edition: Volume 13 Issue 10, October 2024
Pages: 75 - 80
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