Model Predictive Building Climate Control for Mitigating Heat Pump Noise Pollution (Extended Version)

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Autori principali: Li, Yun, Shi, Jicheng, Jones, Colin N., Yorke-Smith, Neil, Keviczky, Tamas
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Pubblicazione: 2025
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author Li, Yun
Shi, Jicheng
Jones, Colin N.
Yorke-Smith, Neil
Keviczky, Tamas
author_facet Li, Yun
Shi, Jicheng
Jones, Colin N.
Yorke-Smith, Neil
Keviczky, Tamas
contents Noise pollution from heat pumps (HPs) has been an emerging concern to their broader adoption, especially in densely populated areas. This paper explores a model predictive control (MPC) approach for building climate control, aimed at minimizing the noise nuisance generated by HPs. By exploiting a piecewise linear approximation of HP noise patterns and assuming linear building thermal dynamics, the proposed design can be generalized to handle various HP acoustic patterns with mixed-integer linear programming (MILP). Additionally, two computationally efficient options for defining the noise cost function in the proposed MPC design are discussed. Numerical experiments on a high-fidelity building simulator are performed to demonstrate the viability and effectiveness of the proposed design. Simulation results show that the proposed approach can effectively reduce the noise pollution caused by HPs with negligible energy cost increase.
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spellingShingle Model Predictive Building Climate Control for Mitigating Heat Pump Noise Pollution (Extended Version)
Li, Yun
Shi, Jicheng
Jones, Colin N.
Yorke-Smith, Neil
Keviczky, Tamas
Systems and Control
Noise pollution from heat pumps (HPs) has been an emerging concern to their broader adoption, especially in densely populated areas. This paper explores a model predictive control (MPC) approach for building climate control, aimed at minimizing the noise nuisance generated by HPs. By exploiting a piecewise linear approximation of HP noise patterns and assuming linear building thermal dynamics, the proposed design can be generalized to handle various HP acoustic patterns with mixed-integer linear programming (MILP). Additionally, two computationally efficient options for defining the noise cost function in the proposed MPC design are discussed. Numerical experiments on a high-fidelity building simulator are performed to demonstrate the viability and effectiveness of the proposed design. Simulation results show that the proposed approach can effectively reduce the noise pollution caused by HPs with negligible energy cost increase.
title Model Predictive Building Climate Control for Mitigating Heat Pump Noise Pollution (Extended Version)
topic Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.04182