Jona Maurer

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology | KIT · Institute of Feedback and Automatic Control Systems (IRS)

Although electric power networks and district heating networks are physically coupled, they are not operated in a coordinated manner. With increasing penetration of renewable energy sources, a coordinated market-based operation of the two networks can yield significant advantages, as reduced need for grid reinforcements, by optimizing the power flo...

Although electric power networks and district heating networks are physically coupled, they are not operated in a coordinated manner. With increasing penetration of renewable energy sources, a coordinated market-based operation of the two networks can yield significant advantages, as reduced need for grid reinforcements, by optimizing the power flo...

The optimal operation of District Heating Networks (DHNs) is a challenging task. Current or future optimal dispatch energy management systems attempt to optimize objectives, such as monetary cost minimization, emission reduction, or social welfare maximization. Typically, this requires highly nonlinear models and has a substantial computational cos...

Optimal operation of District Heating Networks (DHNs) is a very challenging task. One of the main challenges for DHNs optimization tool designers is the choice of an adequate dynamic thermal pipeline model which gives a good tradeoff between accurately modeling the physics of the thermodynamic processes and simultaneously yielding a numerically eff...

Coordinated operation of Coupled Electric Power and District Heating Networks (CEPDHNs) brings advantages as e.g., the district heating networks can provide flexibility to the electric power network, and the entire system operation can be further decarbonized through heat pumps and electric boilers using electricity from renewable energy sources. S...

The main contribution of this work is the development of a network operation approach for integrated electric power and district heating networks based on social welfare optimization. Thereby demand-side management and economic dispatch are obtained simultaneously by taking into account consumers, flexible consumers, producers and renewable energy...

One strategy to deal with further increase of renewable energy generation (REG) is to manage energy production, consumption and storage locally. An approach is shown which enables the usage of the gas distribution grid as an energy storage for the electrical distribution grid. Thereby the electric power exchange of the regarded electrical low volta...