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Model-Based Design of Integrative Energy Concepts for Building
Quarters using Modelica
Dipl.-Ing. Torsten Schwan Dipl.-Ing. René Unger
EA Systems Dresden GmbH, Königstr. 2, 01097 Dresden, Germany
torsten.schwan@ea-energie.de rene.unger@ea-energie.de
Dr.-Ing. Christian Lerche
Ingenieurbüro Dr. Lerche, Lugstr. 5, 01796 Pirna, Germany
doclerche@web.de
Dipl.-Ing. Christian Kehrer
ITI GmbH, Schweriner Str. 1, 01067 Dresden, Germany
kehrer@itisim.com
Abstract
Increasing energy prices as well as outdated building
systems present the housing industry with the chal-
lenge of finding new complex system solutions in-
cluding renewable energy and storage systems. The
municipality Lohmen and the local housing associa-
tion contracted EA Systems and IB Dr. Lerche to
develop an integrative energy system concept for its
historic town center.
This paper deals with modeling and simulating dif-
ferent energy system variants for the existing build-
ing structure using the Modelica-based ‘Green Build-
ing’ library and SimulationX. The discussion illus-
trates the challenges of the modeling process, inno-
vative solutions and the simulation results.
Keywords: Green Building, Building Simulation,
Building Quarters, Building Complexes
1 Introduction
In Germany, most buildings were erected before any
heat insulation regulations existed. Therefore, most
of them had to be refurbished from time to time to
reduce thermal energy consumption and to adapt to
current legislative requirements (e.g. Energy Saving
Ordinance).
Especially in the East of Germany, last region-wide
refurbishment measures were taken back in the 90s
of the last century. Hence, most buildings there still
meet current energetic requirements. However, the
building energy systems installed at that time have a
lifespan of about 20 years. Consequently, building
owners today, whether they are private or public,
have to think about new refurbishment measures.
Conventional measures to replace existing, out-
dated heating systems with more efficient system
components (e.g. gas-fired condensing boilers) con-
tribute to a significant reduction of energy consump-
tion. But rising energy prices and upcoming legisla-
tive requirements to reduce carbon dioxide emissions
mean that these measures will not be sufficient. In-
novative ideas, like integrating renewable energy
systems and storages, have to be tested for applica-
bility to specific building situations.
To meet this challenge, the municipality of
Lohmen and the local housing association contracted
EA Systems and IB Dr. Lerche to develop an inte-
grative energy system concept for the historic town
center. This requires local characteristics, especially
the availability of renewable energy, to be scruti-
nized. In this regard, suitable energy system variants
have to be derived and evaluated for energy efficien-
cy, economical requirements and further ecological
aspects.
The given complexity requires new analytical
methods. The availability of renewable energy has to
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be analyzed in combination with strongly usage-
dependent energy consumption profiles as well as
state-specific applicability of partly new storage sys-
tems (e.g. batteries). For that reason, only dynamic
simulations of different energy systems can provide
sufficient results for an adequate system evaluation.
As a newly developed simulation environment,
the Modelica-based ‘Green Building’ library and
SimulationX were used to fulfill the given engineer-
ing task. Since it was developed especially for such
applications, ‘Green Building’ can be used to easily
model complex energy systems including renewa-
bles, storages as well as complex building structures
in one simulation environment.
2 Green Building Simulation Library
Modelica is an equation-based and cross-domain
modeling language. It offers the possibility to model
complex building energy systems with different do-
mains (e.g. heat, electricity, control) using differen-
tial-algebraic equations. These equation systems can
be edited and solved within one simulation environ-
ment.
That is why EA Systems used Modelica and the
versatile CAE tool SimulationX to develop the
‘Green Building’ library for the simulation of energy
systems [4]. By adapting an approach widely used in
the automotive industry, several elements for the
production of renewable energy and heating systems
were created as well as storages and electrical or
thermal consumers [5]. Most of the models represent
real world objects like vehicles, electrical inverters
or valves. Granularity and complexity of each ele-
ment are thus in the same range while preserving a
flexible yet easy modeling process (i.e. physical as
well as phenomenological models [5]). The model-
ing focus lies on the interactive behavior of different
energy system components with varying complexity
in the context of building energy supply, be it ther-
mal or electrical (i.e. electrical systems modeled us-
ing RMS values [4]). Although the building itself
can be modeled as a complex thermal and electrical
energy consumer by using a number of thermal
zones, a detailed thermal building simulation for dif-
ferent thermal conditions in one room, for example,
requires a more specialized tool, like EnergyPlus
(Green Building, for example, uses constant average
temperatures in thermal zones [5]).
Figure 1 shows the ‘Green Building’ simulation
environment in ITI’s SimulationX with a relatively
simple model of a single-family home including a
heat pump as well as a micro-wind turbine and a
photovoltaic system as renewable energy sources [6].
3 Municipal area of Lohmen
The surveyed area in the municipality of Lohmen,
a small town in the middle of the Free State of Saxo-
ny in Germany, includes altogether twelve buildings
Fig. 1: Modelica model of a renewable energy system incl. the building in the simulation environment
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and building complexes. Besides ten dwelling houses
built in the 1960s and 70s, there are also the over
500-year old Lohmen castle, the office of munici-
pality, as well as the school complex with four sepa-
rate buildings which are part of the study.
Figure 2 shows the historic town center of
Lohmen with all acting partners, its municipality, the
housing association as well as a local owner commu-
nity.
Intensive analyzes of available energy saving po-
tentials and existing renewable sources were the ba-
sis of the following modeling and simulation work.
Initial analyzes dealt with conventional refurbish-
ment measures of existing heating systems and the
usage of solar energy. Besides, Lohmen is directly
situated at the river Wesenitz with a number of exist-
ing water power plants in the area of the historic
town center. Hence, further analyzes mainly re-
volved around the integration of water power as well
as water heat usage with heat pumps, for example.
4 Modeling paradigms and simula-
tion results
Basically, energy can be provided in two ways. Heat
and electricity can be supplied to each house indi-
vidually. That means heat is produced by internal
heating systems, like condensing boilers or micro-
cogeneration units. Electricity can be taken from the
grid or from locally installed photovoltaic systems
on each building’s rooftop. These basic approaches
are single-building solutions which only replace or
modify existing building energy supply concepts.
That way, existing renewable energy potentials (e.g.
river water heat) cannot be used in an economic way.
Other solutions consider all existing buildings to-
gether. These quarters solutions enable an economi-
cal use of all available renewable energy potentials
as well as existing synergy effects, e.g. electricity
production with photovoltaic systems only on roof-
tops facing South.
Basically, SimulationX’ ‘Green Building’ library
was used to implement and to simulate adequate sys-
tem models. This simulation environment enables
the user to simulate variable building energy systems
including a building’s heating as well as the inhabit-
ants’ electricity consumption. The basic modeling
idea though was a single-family home. That required
some modifications of existing models and the de-
velopment of new, adequate modeling approaches
for the project at hand.
Figure 3 shows two of these newly developed
modeling paradigms. The model on the left shows
the school complex which consists of four building
models for each part of the complex (elementary
school, kindergarten, gym, historic school). Each of
these building models is implemented as three
‘Building Zones’ from the ‘Green Building’ library
representing basement, classrooms and roof. Fur-
thermore, the school complex model includes do-
mestic water production, electricity consumption as
Fig. 2: Historic town center of Lohmen
Municipality of Lohmen
-- Town Hall --
Housing Association Lohmen
-- Schloßstraße 10-17 --
Owner Community
-- Schloßstraße 1-9 --
Housing Association
-- Ringstraße 1-14 --
Municipality of Lohmen
-- School Complex --
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well as heating system components (e.g. valves,
pipes, etc.).
The right side of figure 3 shows the implemented
sub-model of a heat pump cascade to be used as a
basic heating system for the quarters. It consists of
‘Green Building’ heat pump models including con-
nected controllers as well as heat storages. Further-
more, a river model provides information about
available water heat and renewable electrical power
of existing water power plants. Heat supply to the
district heating grid is represented by a convenient
heat exchanger model.
Both modeling approaches illustrate the basic
modeling idea used during this project. Buildings
and usage (domestic water consumption, electricity
consumption, etc.) are implemented individually in
sub-model components. That way, they can either be
used for single-building simulations or for entire
quarters simulations without the need for further
model adaptations.
4.1 Single-building simulation
The following energy system configurations in-
cluding renewable energy usage were examined in
single-building analyzes:
 Condensing boilers
 Micro-cogeneration
 Photovoltaic systems
 Solar thermal collectors
 Gas-fired heat pumps with geothermal
energy usage
The replacement of existing condensing boilers
always represents a basic strategy to lower natural
gas consumption of each building. They are able to
provide heat for buildings and domestic water supply
at fairly high efficiency rates (higher than 95%).
Adding small micro-cogeneration units to each
building’s energy system allows for a combined heat
and electricity production. That way, general elec-
tricity consumption, e.g. for heating pumps and
hallway lighting, can be significantly reduced. Espe-
cially in Germany, cogeneration units are substan-
tially subsidized by the state. Hence, heat and elec-
tricity can be produced at relatively low operating
expenses.
Fig. 4: Specific renewable heat production of differ-
ent solar collectors at different residential buildings
Photovoltaic systems provide renewable electrici-
ty to meet a building’s general electricity demand. In
Lohmen, general electricity consumption is rather
low. Therefore, local electricity production has to
Fig. 3: Sub-model structure of the school complex and the heat pump cascade
Heating
System
Domestic
Water
Supply
4 Building Models:
• Elementary School
• Kindergarten
• Gym
• Historic School
Grid Connection
River
Heat
Pumps
Heat Storages
Tichelmann System
District
Heating Grid
Grid Connection
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account for these conditions. The inhabitants’ elec-
tricity consumption is much higher, but cannot be
met easily by local electricity production, because of
German tax legislation for housing associations. Fur-
thermore, electricity fed into the grid is not very
profitable for newly constructed energy systems.
Consequently, the main goal of energy system design
is to minimize the amount of electricity fed into the
grid while maximizing the production of renewable
energy.
Solar thermal collectors constitute another energy
system configuration that uses solar energy as a
source. They can provide a significant amount of a
building’s domestic water consumption if they are
installed in the right spot (e.g. south facing roofs).
However, there are two different types of collectors:
flat plate and CPC (Compound Parabolic Concentra-
tor) collectors. Figure 4 shows some sample results
from simulation-based analyzes of the solar thermal
energy potential of various residential buildings’
roofs. CPC collectors always represent a more effi-
cient system variant. Due to quite high system costs,
a specific heat gain of at least 250 kWh/m2
is needed
on average. Figure 4 shows that only CPC collectors
on buildings with south facing roofs (e.g. Schloßstr.
13-17) can provide enough solar energy input for the
analyzed system configuration (domestic water pro-
duction with hot water boilers at 60°C).
The third energy system configuration that was
simulated and evaluated for each single building is
based on gas-fired heat pumps. Compared to electric
heat pumps, these comparatively new systems pro-
vide heat using geothermal energy as well as a
smaller amount of natural gas.
Figure 5 shows a complete single-building model
of the school complex with a condensing boiler cas-
cade as a basic heat supply system, solar thermal
collectors to support domestic water supply, and a
photovoltaic system to provide renewable electricity.
This sample model shows only one of nine simulated
and examined system configurations for the school
complex:
 Existing building with two 15-year old
condensing boilers
 Refurbished energy system (e.g. in-
creased pump efficiency) with some ad-
aptations of the building insulation
 New condensing boiler cascade with
modulating working burners
 Condensing boiler cascade with small
Stirling CHP
 Condensing boiler cascade with CHP
Fig. 5: Single-building model of the school complex with condensing boiler cascade, heat storage, solar
thermal collector and photovoltaic system
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 Condensing boiler cascade with solar
thermal system (CPC)
 Condensing boiler cascade with CPC col-
lectors and small photovoltaic system
 Condensing boiler cascade with small
photovoltaic system
 Condensing boiler cascade with large
photovoltaic system
Figure 6 shows results for simulated electricity
and natural gas consumptions of the school complex’
analyzed system configurations.
Fig. 6: Simulation results for different system vari-
ants of the school complex
All results are compared against the results of an
existing old condensing boiler cascade. All variants,
except for the existing system, are simulated with
simple refurbishments of the building’s heat transfer
system (e.g. pumps) and the building’s insulation. It
is evident that even simple refurbishment measures
have a significant impact on the heat and electricity
consumptions. However, variant 3 with the new con-
densing boiler cascade is the first energy system var-
iant suitable for long-term decisions due to the age of
the existing boiler.
Furthermore, it appears that system variant 5 with
a large combined heat and power unit (CHP) could
be the most interesting variant regarding energy con-
sumption and system efficiency, because the electric-
ity consumption can be reduced significantly without
increasing the natural gas consumption too much.
All in all, over 70 variants of different energy
system configurations and different buildings were
modeled and simulated using the ‘Green Building’
library and further presented modeling paradigms.
Such energy supply variants for single-buildings,
however, have only limited potential to reduce the
renewable energy usage and energy consumption.
Further analyses have thus been conducted regarding
a number of different energy system variants for the
entire quarters.
4.2 Simulation of the Quarters
The basic idea is to combine all implemented
building models (see right part of fig. 3) of ten resi-
dential buildings, Lohmen castle and the school
complex into one large simulation model plus vari-
ous energy system configurations. The main part of
the heat supply regards a district heating grid imple-
mented with ‘Green Building’ components. This dis-
trict heating grid includes volume flows as well as
temperature behavior in single pipes to enable dy-
namic heat loss simulations (i.e. simulated heat loss-
es to ground using a static ground temperature model
[7]). The layout of the circulation pump, however,
(regarding pressure drops, for example) is configured
during preprocessing in order to reduce the number
of simulated system states.
Figure 7 shows a sample district heating grid
model with several centrally located condensing
boiler cascades, a heat pump cascade using river wa-
ter and water power plants as heat and electricity
source as well as two cogeneration units for overall
domestic water supply located in the school com-
plex.
Two different types of district heating grids were
implemented and analyzed. A “small” district heat-
ing grid provides heat from two cogeneration units to
meet domestic water requirements of each building.
Mechanical space heating is still provided locally by
several condensing boiler cascades.
The “large” district heating grid solution includes
cogeneration for domestic water supply as well as
main heat power production by a 520 kW heat pump
cascade. Heat pumps use river water as environmen-
tal heat source and electricity produced at local water
power plants as electricity source. Both heat sources
are connected to each building via a widespread dis-
trict heating grid. Further heating power demands are
met by smaller peak-power condensing boiler cas-
cades.
Modifications can be done by adding further,
smaller photovoltaic systems. Additionally, some of
the implemented condensing boilers can be replaced
by gas-fired heat pump systems again. That way, the
system can be optimized with respect to number and
type of the required components.
Such a complex energy system requires sufficient
control algorithms to operate the appropriate system
components. That way, standby losses of system
components that are not in use (e.g. peak power con-
densing boilers at higher ambient temperatures) can
be significantly reduced. Furthermore, renewable
energy usage can be increased by avoiding simulta-
neous heat pump operation, for example.
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‘Green Building’ enables the user to implement
physical energy systems as well as corresponding
controller behavior (mostly P controllers with hyste-
resis switch-on/off statements) in one large simula-
tion model within the SimulationX modeling envi-
ronment. Previously presented optimization tasks can
thus be executed more easily.
Each of the two types of energy system configu-
rations for the district heating grids were simulated
with four and five different system component con-
figurations and/or control algorithm sets. All results
were evaluated in comparison with the buildings’
existing energy supply infrastructure and the accu-
mulated results of single building simulations with
condensing boilers as the basic heat supply variant.
The simulation’s result analysis focused on the
affordability of different energy system components.
Cost analyses, however, are not a basic part of the
‘Green Building’ simulation environment. Further
result evaluations revealed some interesting aspects
regarding energy saving potential as well as overall
system sustainability.
Figure 8 shows simulation results for the relative
overall energy consumption of each simulated sys-
tem configuration, divided into natural gas and elec-
tricity consumption.
The diagram is divided into three basic parts. The
left side shows accumulated results of all analyzed
single-building simulations. It illustrates the overall
energy consumption of the quarters’ existing energy
systems, simply refurbished energy systems as well
as the basic “energy-concept” regarding the replace-
ment of old boiler systems by new condensing boil-
ers.
The second part of the diagram shows results for
the previously introduced “small” district heating
grid variant. Besides basic system configurations, it
was also simulated with a 14.5 kWp photovoltaic
system on a suitable building roof. Furthermore, the
integration of street lighting into the overall energy
system concept was part of some analyses, and some
of the integrated condensing boilers were replaced
by new gas-fired heat pump systems.
Most simulations for the quarters’ analyses were
run for a second district heating grid system variant.
This “large” variant mentioned earlier includes a
heat pump cascade for main heating power supply. It
was simulated with and without recognizing street
lighting. However, most of the simulated results
concern different optimization levels of energy man-
agement system.
On the one hand, basic energy management sys-
tem algorithms forced the CHP cascade to provide
heat for domestic water supply in residential build-
ings even in winter months when sufficient heat
power is directly needed in the school complex. On
the other hand, all peak power condensing boilers
stay activated even in case of ambient temperature
levels above the estimated bivalence point. Further-
more, all heating systems, even the heat pump cas-
cade, are operated at comparatively high flow tem-
perature levels.
Evidently, the system does not work in an optimal
way. Therefore, some optimization steps were taken
Fig.7: Simulation model of the quarters with district heating grid, micro-cogeneration, heat pump cascade,
peak power condensing boiler cascades and all involved building complexes
Condensing Boiler
Cascade
Building Model with
Domestic Water Supply
District Heating
Grid
Heat Pump Cascade
with River Water
Cooling
CHP for Domestic
Water Supply
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to improve the implemented energy management
algorithms. First of all, the condensing boiler cas-
cades were shut down in case of ambient temperature
levels rise above the bivalence point. Furthermore,
the CHPs are only used to provide residential build-
ings with domestic water in transitory and summer
periods. These measures are shown as optimization
level 1 in figure 8.
Optimization level 2 refers to the reduced opera-
tion of the heat pump system during the summer
months. Heat pump systems are supposed to provide
heat only to connected buildings. However, they are
not intended to provide domestic water because of
required higher temperature levels. Lowering the
heat pump cascade thus reduces standby losses with-
out affecting any heat power needs.
The third optimization level refers to reductions
of preconfigured reference temperatures for all im-
plemented heating system components (i.e. heat
pump cascades, peak-power condensing boilers).
That way, reference temperatures could be reduced
by about 5K to enable all components to run in better
working ranges (e.g. COP of heat pumps).
The last optimization level affected only switch-
on and switch-off times of the planned heat pump
cascade. In the planned “large” district heating grid
system variant, all heat pumps are equally used to
provide heat (c.f. Tichelmann system in fig. 3). All
previously presented energy management algorithms
forced each heat pump to work mainly at the same
time (i.e. control hysteresis was implemented in the
same way). Hence, this control regime was adapted
to sequentially drive the heat pump cascade. This
way, electricity provided by the water power plant
can be used more efficiently to power each heat
pump. That enabled a reduction of the overall elec-
tricity consumption.
Both variants of district heating grids offer mas-
sive reductions of energy consumption and a better
use of available renewable energy. The “small” dis-
trict heating grid variant provides huge reductions of
electricity (ca. 80%) consumption even in compari-
son to refurbished single-building system variants.
This is mainly caused by comparatively huge
amounts of electricity produced by the CHP system.
However, the overall natural gas consumption in-
creases slightly because of partly simultaneous heat
and electricity production.
The “large” district heating grid shows opposite
results. Using environmental energy as well as elec-
tricity to provide heat massively decreases the natu-
ral gas consumption (ca. 50%). However, existing
power plants cannot generate all electricity required
for the heat pumps’ operation. Hence, the overall
Fig.8: Simulation results of different energy system variants for complete quarters solutions
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electricity consumption can even exceed the existing
electricity demand. Apparently, system optimization
as well as iterative improvements of implemented
energy management algorithms can sufficiently de-
crease these effects.
Finally, both district heating grid solutions pro-
vide extensive reductions of energy consumption.
This is mainly achieved by using huge amounts of
renewable, environmental energy (e.g. water power)
as well as synergies in the existing quarters. That
way, providing electricity, which is produced by a
newly installed CHP system, to street lighting would
further decrease overall electricity consumption in a
significant way.
Furthermore, replacing some of the additionally
needed peak-power condensing boilers by an ade-
quate number of gas-fired heat pumps using geo-
thermal energy as additional heat source can signifi-
cantly improve natural gas consumption as well.
5 Conclusions
This paper shows how the SimulationX ‘Green
Building’ library was used to analyze and to evaluate
different suitable building energy system variants of
building quarters in the historic town center of
Lohmen. Some selected modeling paradigms are
presented to demonstrate how to use ‘Green Build-
ing’ for simulating larger building complexes.
Furthermore, the developed analyses approach, be
it the comparison of different energy system configu-
rations for single buildings or the evaluation of the
given quarters as one unit, is presented as well.
Some simulation results are illustrated for one
single building evaluation process regarding the
school complex. In comparison to that, both devel-
oped energy system variants representing a district
heating grid are introduced with their specific char-
acteristics. Simulation results are evaluated in com-
parison to single-building analyses. Advantages and
disadvantages of both variants and derived system
configurations are discussed at the end.
The simulation models are relatively complex.
The simulation of a single building energy system
took 0.5 to 4 hours for one year. In comparison to
that, simulations of the quarters took between 3 and
4 days to finish. It is thus evident that ‘Green Build-
ing’ can be used to economically analyze complex
variants of building energy systems. Parallelization
by using multi-core computing can further improve
this aspect.
Extensive engineering efforts yielded a compara-
tively high numerical stability of the Green Building
library [6]. That way, simulating even complex, cou-
pled numerical systems (linear and nonlinear) does
not affect convergence. The presented project, for
instance, comprised complex quarter models with up
to 3000 system states. Simulating these models for
one year causes around one million event iterations.
The presented results are part of a research study
which is funded by KFW (Development Load Cor-
poration) and communal as well as private investors.
The complete research project includes theoretical,
Fig.9: Pictures of residential buildings (top left), historic school (bottom left) and ancient Lohmen castle
(right)
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simulation-based analyses of sufficient energy sys-
tem configurations. First approaches as well as initial
simulation results were also shown in [3]. Acting
partners (c.f. fig. 2) can decide which energy system
variant meets their predefined requirements best with
respect to affordability and sustainability. The cho-
sen energy system variant will be built in a second
project part beginning in the middle of 2014.
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Model-Based Design of Integrative Energy Concepts for Building

  • 1. Model-Based Design of Integrative Energy Concepts for Building Quarters using Modelica Dipl.-Ing. Torsten Schwan Dipl.-Ing. René Unger EA Systems Dresden GmbH, Königstr. 2, 01097 Dresden, Germany torsten.schwan@ea-energie.de rene.unger@ea-energie.de Dr.-Ing. Christian Lerche Ingenieurbüro Dr. Lerche, Lugstr. 5, 01796 Pirna, Germany doclerche@web.de Dipl.-Ing. Christian Kehrer ITI GmbH, Schweriner Str. 1, 01067 Dresden, Germany kehrer@itisim.com Abstract Increasing energy prices as well as outdated building systems present the housing industry with the chal- lenge of finding new complex system solutions in- cluding renewable energy and storage systems. The municipality Lohmen and the local housing associa- tion contracted EA Systems and IB Dr. Lerche to develop an integrative energy system concept for its historic town center. This paper deals with modeling and simulating dif- ferent energy system variants for the existing build- ing structure using the Modelica-based ‘Green Build- ing’ library and SimulationX. The discussion illus- trates the challenges of the modeling process, inno- vative solutions and the simulation results. Keywords: Green Building, Building Simulation, Building Quarters, Building Complexes 1 Introduction In Germany, most buildings were erected before any heat insulation regulations existed. Therefore, most of them had to be refurbished from time to time to reduce thermal energy consumption and to adapt to current legislative requirements (e.g. Energy Saving Ordinance). Especially in the East of Germany, last region-wide refurbishment measures were taken back in the 90s of the last century. Hence, most buildings there still meet current energetic requirements. However, the building energy systems installed at that time have a lifespan of about 20 years. Consequently, building owners today, whether they are private or public, have to think about new refurbishment measures. Conventional measures to replace existing, out- dated heating systems with more efficient system components (e.g. gas-fired condensing boilers) con- tribute to a significant reduction of energy consump- tion. But rising energy prices and upcoming legisla- tive requirements to reduce carbon dioxide emissions mean that these measures will not be sufficient. In- novative ideas, like integrating renewable energy systems and storages, have to be tested for applica- bility to specific building situations. To meet this challenge, the municipality of Lohmen and the local housing association contracted EA Systems and IB Dr. Lerche to develop an inte- grative energy system concept for the historic town center. This requires local characteristics, especially the availability of renewable energy, to be scruti- nized. In this regard, suitable energy system variants have to be derived and evaluated for energy efficien- cy, economical requirements and further ecological aspects. The given complexity requires new analytical methods. The availability of renewable energy has to DOI 10.3384/ECP1409697 Proceedings of the 10th International ModelicaConference March 10-12, 2014, Lund, Sweden 97
  • 2. be analyzed in combination with strongly usage- dependent energy consumption profiles as well as state-specific applicability of partly new storage sys- tems (e.g. batteries). For that reason, only dynamic simulations of different energy systems can provide sufficient results for an adequate system evaluation. As a newly developed simulation environment, the Modelica-based ‘Green Building’ library and SimulationX were used to fulfill the given engineer- ing task. Since it was developed especially for such applications, ‘Green Building’ can be used to easily model complex energy systems including renewa- bles, storages as well as complex building structures in one simulation environment. 2 Green Building Simulation Library Modelica is an equation-based and cross-domain modeling language. It offers the possibility to model complex building energy systems with different do- mains (e.g. heat, electricity, control) using differen- tial-algebraic equations. These equation systems can be edited and solved within one simulation environ- ment. That is why EA Systems used Modelica and the versatile CAE tool SimulationX to develop the ‘Green Building’ library for the simulation of energy systems [4]. By adapting an approach widely used in the automotive industry, several elements for the production of renewable energy and heating systems were created as well as storages and electrical or thermal consumers [5]. Most of the models represent real world objects like vehicles, electrical inverters or valves. Granularity and complexity of each ele- ment are thus in the same range while preserving a flexible yet easy modeling process (i.e. physical as well as phenomenological models [5]). The model- ing focus lies on the interactive behavior of different energy system components with varying complexity in the context of building energy supply, be it ther- mal or electrical (i.e. electrical systems modeled us- ing RMS values [4]). Although the building itself can be modeled as a complex thermal and electrical energy consumer by using a number of thermal zones, a detailed thermal building simulation for dif- ferent thermal conditions in one room, for example, requires a more specialized tool, like EnergyPlus (Green Building, for example, uses constant average temperatures in thermal zones [5]). Figure 1 shows the ‘Green Building’ simulation environment in ITI’s SimulationX with a relatively simple model of a single-family home including a heat pump as well as a micro-wind turbine and a photovoltaic system as renewable energy sources [6]. 3 Municipal area of Lohmen The surveyed area in the municipality of Lohmen, a small town in the middle of the Free State of Saxo- ny in Germany, includes altogether twelve buildings Fig. 1: Modelica model of a renewable energy system incl. the building in the simulation environment Model-Based Design of Integrative Energy Concepts for Building Quarters using Modelica 98 Proceedings of the 10th International ModelicaConference March 10-12, 2014, Lund, Sweden DOI 10.3384/ECP1409697
  • 3. and building complexes. Besides ten dwelling houses built in the 1960s and 70s, there are also the over 500-year old Lohmen castle, the office of munici- pality, as well as the school complex with four sepa- rate buildings which are part of the study. Figure 2 shows the historic town center of Lohmen with all acting partners, its municipality, the housing association as well as a local owner commu- nity. Intensive analyzes of available energy saving po- tentials and existing renewable sources were the ba- sis of the following modeling and simulation work. Initial analyzes dealt with conventional refurbish- ment measures of existing heating systems and the usage of solar energy. Besides, Lohmen is directly situated at the river Wesenitz with a number of exist- ing water power plants in the area of the historic town center. Hence, further analyzes mainly re- volved around the integration of water power as well as water heat usage with heat pumps, for example. 4 Modeling paradigms and simula- tion results Basically, energy can be provided in two ways. Heat and electricity can be supplied to each house indi- vidually. That means heat is produced by internal heating systems, like condensing boilers or micro- cogeneration units. Electricity can be taken from the grid or from locally installed photovoltaic systems on each building’s rooftop. These basic approaches are single-building solutions which only replace or modify existing building energy supply concepts. That way, existing renewable energy potentials (e.g. river water heat) cannot be used in an economic way. Other solutions consider all existing buildings to- gether. These quarters solutions enable an economi- cal use of all available renewable energy potentials as well as existing synergy effects, e.g. electricity production with photovoltaic systems only on roof- tops facing South. Basically, SimulationX’ ‘Green Building’ library was used to implement and to simulate adequate sys- tem models. This simulation environment enables the user to simulate variable building energy systems including a building’s heating as well as the inhabit- ants’ electricity consumption. The basic modeling idea though was a single-family home. That required some modifications of existing models and the de- velopment of new, adequate modeling approaches for the project at hand. Figure 3 shows two of these newly developed modeling paradigms. The model on the left shows the school complex which consists of four building models for each part of the complex (elementary school, kindergarten, gym, historic school). Each of these building models is implemented as three ‘Building Zones’ from the ‘Green Building’ library representing basement, classrooms and roof. Fur- thermore, the school complex model includes do- mestic water production, electricity consumption as Fig. 2: Historic town center of Lohmen Municipality of Lohmen -- Town Hall -- Housing Association Lohmen -- Schloßstraße 10-17 -- Owner Community -- Schloßstraße 1-9 -- Housing Association -- Ringstraße 1-14 -- Municipality of Lohmen -- School Complex -- Session 1C: Building Energy Applications 1 DOI 10.3384/ECP1409697 Proceedings of the 10th International ModelicaConference March 10-12, 2014, Lund, Sweden 99
  • 4. well as heating system components (e.g. valves, pipes, etc.). The right side of figure 3 shows the implemented sub-model of a heat pump cascade to be used as a basic heating system for the quarters. It consists of ‘Green Building’ heat pump models including con- nected controllers as well as heat storages. Further- more, a river model provides information about available water heat and renewable electrical power of existing water power plants. Heat supply to the district heating grid is represented by a convenient heat exchanger model. Both modeling approaches illustrate the basic modeling idea used during this project. Buildings and usage (domestic water consumption, electricity consumption, etc.) are implemented individually in sub-model components. That way, they can either be used for single-building simulations or for entire quarters simulations without the need for further model adaptations. 4.1 Single-building simulation The following energy system configurations in- cluding renewable energy usage were examined in single-building analyzes:  Condensing boilers  Micro-cogeneration  Photovoltaic systems  Solar thermal collectors  Gas-fired heat pumps with geothermal energy usage The replacement of existing condensing boilers always represents a basic strategy to lower natural gas consumption of each building. They are able to provide heat for buildings and domestic water supply at fairly high efficiency rates (higher than 95%). Adding small micro-cogeneration units to each building’s energy system allows for a combined heat and electricity production. That way, general elec- tricity consumption, e.g. for heating pumps and hallway lighting, can be significantly reduced. Espe- cially in Germany, cogeneration units are substan- tially subsidized by the state. Hence, heat and elec- tricity can be produced at relatively low operating expenses. Fig. 4: Specific renewable heat production of differ- ent solar collectors at different residential buildings Photovoltaic systems provide renewable electrici- ty to meet a building’s general electricity demand. In Lohmen, general electricity consumption is rather low. Therefore, local electricity production has to Fig. 3: Sub-model structure of the school complex and the heat pump cascade Heating System Domestic Water Supply 4 Building Models: • Elementary School • Kindergarten • Gym • Historic School Grid Connection River Heat Pumps Heat Storages Tichelmann System District Heating Grid Grid Connection Model-Based Design of Integrative Energy Concepts for Building Quarters using Modelica 100 Proceedings of the 10th International ModelicaConference March 10-12, 2014, Lund, Sweden DOI 10.3384/ECP1409697
  • 5. account for these conditions. The inhabitants’ elec- tricity consumption is much higher, but cannot be met easily by local electricity production, because of German tax legislation for housing associations. Fur- thermore, electricity fed into the grid is not very profitable for newly constructed energy systems. Consequently, the main goal of energy system design is to minimize the amount of electricity fed into the grid while maximizing the production of renewable energy. Solar thermal collectors constitute another energy system configuration that uses solar energy as a source. They can provide a significant amount of a building’s domestic water consumption if they are installed in the right spot (e.g. south facing roofs). However, there are two different types of collectors: flat plate and CPC (Compound Parabolic Concentra- tor) collectors. Figure 4 shows some sample results from simulation-based analyzes of the solar thermal energy potential of various residential buildings’ roofs. CPC collectors always represent a more effi- cient system variant. Due to quite high system costs, a specific heat gain of at least 250 kWh/m2 is needed on average. Figure 4 shows that only CPC collectors on buildings with south facing roofs (e.g. Schloßstr. 13-17) can provide enough solar energy input for the analyzed system configuration (domestic water pro- duction with hot water boilers at 60°C). The third energy system configuration that was simulated and evaluated for each single building is based on gas-fired heat pumps. Compared to electric heat pumps, these comparatively new systems pro- vide heat using geothermal energy as well as a smaller amount of natural gas. Figure 5 shows a complete single-building model of the school complex with a condensing boiler cas- cade as a basic heat supply system, solar thermal collectors to support domestic water supply, and a photovoltaic system to provide renewable electricity. This sample model shows only one of nine simulated and examined system configurations for the school complex:  Existing building with two 15-year old condensing boilers  Refurbished energy system (e.g. in- creased pump efficiency) with some ad- aptations of the building insulation  New condensing boiler cascade with modulating working burners  Condensing boiler cascade with small Stirling CHP  Condensing boiler cascade with CHP Fig. 5: Single-building model of the school complex with condensing boiler cascade, heat storage, solar thermal collector and photovoltaic system Session 1C: Building Energy Applications 1 DOI 10.3384/ECP1409697 Proceedings of the 10th International ModelicaConference March 10-12, 2014, Lund, Sweden 101
  • 6.  Condensing boiler cascade with solar thermal system (CPC)  Condensing boiler cascade with CPC col- lectors and small photovoltaic system  Condensing boiler cascade with small photovoltaic system  Condensing boiler cascade with large photovoltaic system Figure 6 shows results for simulated electricity and natural gas consumptions of the school complex’ analyzed system configurations. Fig. 6: Simulation results for different system vari- ants of the school complex All results are compared against the results of an existing old condensing boiler cascade. All variants, except for the existing system, are simulated with simple refurbishments of the building’s heat transfer system (e.g. pumps) and the building’s insulation. It is evident that even simple refurbishment measures have a significant impact on the heat and electricity consumptions. However, variant 3 with the new con- densing boiler cascade is the first energy system var- iant suitable for long-term decisions due to the age of the existing boiler. Furthermore, it appears that system variant 5 with a large combined heat and power unit (CHP) could be the most interesting variant regarding energy con- sumption and system efficiency, because the electric- ity consumption can be reduced significantly without increasing the natural gas consumption too much. All in all, over 70 variants of different energy system configurations and different buildings were modeled and simulated using the ‘Green Building’ library and further presented modeling paradigms. Such energy supply variants for single-buildings, however, have only limited potential to reduce the renewable energy usage and energy consumption. Further analyses have thus been conducted regarding a number of different energy system variants for the entire quarters. 4.2 Simulation of the Quarters The basic idea is to combine all implemented building models (see right part of fig. 3) of ten resi- dential buildings, Lohmen castle and the school complex into one large simulation model plus vari- ous energy system configurations. The main part of the heat supply regards a district heating grid imple- mented with ‘Green Building’ components. This dis- trict heating grid includes volume flows as well as temperature behavior in single pipes to enable dy- namic heat loss simulations (i.e. simulated heat loss- es to ground using a static ground temperature model [7]). The layout of the circulation pump, however, (regarding pressure drops, for example) is configured during preprocessing in order to reduce the number of simulated system states. Figure 7 shows a sample district heating grid model with several centrally located condensing boiler cascades, a heat pump cascade using river wa- ter and water power plants as heat and electricity source as well as two cogeneration units for overall domestic water supply located in the school com- plex. Two different types of district heating grids were implemented and analyzed. A “small” district heat- ing grid provides heat from two cogeneration units to meet domestic water requirements of each building. Mechanical space heating is still provided locally by several condensing boiler cascades. The “large” district heating grid solution includes cogeneration for domestic water supply as well as main heat power production by a 520 kW heat pump cascade. Heat pumps use river water as environmen- tal heat source and electricity produced at local water power plants as electricity source. Both heat sources are connected to each building via a widespread dis- trict heating grid. Further heating power demands are met by smaller peak-power condensing boiler cas- cades. Modifications can be done by adding further, smaller photovoltaic systems. Additionally, some of the implemented condensing boilers can be replaced by gas-fired heat pump systems again. That way, the system can be optimized with respect to number and type of the required components. Such a complex energy system requires sufficient control algorithms to operate the appropriate system components. That way, standby losses of system components that are not in use (e.g. peak power con- densing boilers at higher ambient temperatures) can be significantly reduced. Furthermore, renewable energy usage can be increased by avoiding simulta- neous heat pump operation, for example. Model-Based Design of Integrative Energy Concepts for Building Quarters using Modelica 102 Proceedings of the 10th International ModelicaConference March 10-12, 2014, Lund, Sweden DOI 10.3384/ECP1409697
  • 7. ‘Green Building’ enables the user to implement physical energy systems as well as corresponding controller behavior (mostly P controllers with hyste- resis switch-on/off statements) in one large simula- tion model within the SimulationX modeling envi- ronment. Previously presented optimization tasks can thus be executed more easily. Each of the two types of energy system configu- rations for the district heating grids were simulated with four and five different system component con- figurations and/or control algorithm sets. All results were evaluated in comparison with the buildings’ existing energy supply infrastructure and the accu- mulated results of single building simulations with condensing boilers as the basic heat supply variant. The simulation’s result analysis focused on the affordability of different energy system components. Cost analyses, however, are not a basic part of the ‘Green Building’ simulation environment. Further result evaluations revealed some interesting aspects regarding energy saving potential as well as overall system sustainability. Figure 8 shows simulation results for the relative overall energy consumption of each simulated sys- tem configuration, divided into natural gas and elec- tricity consumption. The diagram is divided into three basic parts. The left side shows accumulated results of all analyzed single-building simulations. It illustrates the overall energy consumption of the quarters’ existing energy systems, simply refurbished energy systems as well as the basic “energy-concept” regarding the replace- ment of old boiler systems by new condensing boil- ers. The second part of the diagram shows results for the previously introduced “small” district heating grid variant. Besides basic system configurations, it was also simulated with a 14.5 kWp photovoltaic system on a suitable building roof. Furthermore, the integration of street lighting into the overall energy system concept was part of some analyses, and some of the integrated condensing boilers were replaced by new gas-fired heat pump systems. Most simulations for the quarters’ analyses were run for a second district heating grid system variant. This “large” variant mentioned earlier includes a heat pump cascade for main heating power supply. It was simulated with and without recognizing street lighting. However, most of the simulated results concern different optimization levels of energy man- agement system. On the one hand, basic energy management sys- tem algorithms forced the CHP cascade to provide heat for domestic water supply in residential build- ings even in winter months when sufficient heat power is directly needed in the school complex. On the other hand, all peak power condensing boilers stay activated even in case of ambient temperature levels above the estimated bivalence point. Further- more, all heating systems, even the heat pump cas- cade, are operated at comparatively high flow tem- perature levels. Evidently, the system does not work in an optimal way. Therefore, some optimization steps were taken Fig.7: Simulation model of the quarters with district heating grid, micro-cogeneration, heat pump cascade, peak power condensing boiler cascades and all involved building complexes Condensing Boiler Cascade Building Model with Domestic Water Supply District Heating Grid Heat Pump Cascade with River Water Cooling CHP for Domestic Water Supply Session 1C: Building Energy Applications 1 DOI 10.3384/ECP1409697 Proceedings of the 10th International ModelicaConference March 10-12, 2014, Lund, Sweden 103
  • 8. to improve the implemented energy management algorithms. First of all, the condensing boiler cas- cades were shut down in case of ambient temperature levels rise above the bivalence point. Furthermore, the CHPs are only used to provide residential build- ings with domestic water in transitory and summer periods. These measures are shown as optimization level 1 in figure 8. Optimization level 2 refers to the reduced opera- tion of the heat pump system during the summer months. Heat pump systems are supposed to provide heat only to connected buildings. However, they are not intended to provide domestic water because of required higher temperature levels. Lowering the heat pump cascade thus reduces standby losses with- out affecting any heat power needs. The third optimization level refers to reductions of preconfigured reference temperatures for all im- plemented heating system components (i.e. heat pump cascades, peak-power condensing boilers). That way, reference temperatures could be reduced by about 5K to enable all components to run in better working ranges (e.g. COP of heat pumps). The last optimization level affected only switch- on and switch-off times of the planned heat pump cascade. In the planned “large” district heating grid system variant, all heat pumps are equally used to provide heat (c.f. Tichelmann system in fig. 3). All previously presented energy management algorithms forced each heat pump to work mainly at the same time (i.e. control hysteresis was implemented in the same way). Hence, this control regime was adapted to sequentially drive the heat pump cascade. This way, electricity provided by the water power plant can be used more efficiently to power each heat pump. That enabled a reduction of the overall elec- tricity consumption. Both variants of district heating grids offer mas- sive reductions of energy consumption and a better use of available renewable energy. The “small” dis- trict heating grid variant provides huge reductions of electricity (ca. 80%) consumption even in compari- son to refurbished single-building system variants. This is mainly caused by comparatively huge amounts of electricity produced by the CHP system. However, the overall natural gas consumption in- creases slightly because of partly simultaneous heat and electricity production. The “large” district heating grid shows opposite results. Using environmental energy as well as elec- tricity to provide heat massively decreases the natu- ral gas consumption (ca. 50%). However, existing power plants cannot generate all electricity required for the heat pumps’ operation. Hence, the overall Fig.8: Simulation results of different energy system variants for complete quarters solutions Model-Based Design of Integrative Energy Concepts for Building Quarters using Modelica 104 Proceedings of the 10th International ModelicaConference March 10-12, 2014, Lund, Sweden DOI 10.3384/ECP1409697
  • 9. electricity consumption can even exceed the existing electricity demand. Apparently, system optimization as well as iterative improvements of implemented energy management algorithms can sufficiently de- crease these effects. Finally, both district heating grid solutions pro- vide extensive reductions of energy consumption. This is mainly achieved by using huge amounts of renewable, environmental energy (e.g. water power) as well as synergies in the existing quarters. That way, providing electricity, which is produced by a newly installed CHP system, to street lighting would further decrease overall electricity consumption in a significant way. Furthermore, replacing some of the additionally needed peak-power condensing boilers by an ade- quate number of gas-fired heat pumps using geo- thermal energy as additional heat source can signifi- cantly improve natural gas consumption as well. 5 Conclusions This paper shows how the SimulationX ‘Green Building’ library was used to analyze and to evaluate different suitable building energy system variants of building quarters in the historic town center of Lohmen. Some selected modeling paradigms are presented to demonstrate how to use ‘Green Build- ing’ for simulating larger building complexes. Furthermore, the developed analyses approach, be it the comparison of different energy system configu- rations for single buildings or the evaluation of the given quarters as one unit, is presented as well. Some simulation results are illustrated for one single building evaluation process regarding the school complex. In comparison to that, both devel- oped energy system variants representing a district heating grid are introduced with their specific char- acteristics. Simulation results are evaluated in com- parison to single-building analyses. Advantages and disadvantages of both variants and derived system configurations are discussed at the end. The simulation models are relatively complex. The simulation of a single building energy system took 0.5 to 4 hours for one year. In comparison to that, simulations of the quarters took between 3 and 4 days to finish. It is thus evident that ‘Green Build- ing’ can be used to economically analyze complex variants of building energy systems. Parallelization by using multi-core computing can further improve this aspect. Extensive engineering efforts yielded a compara- tively high numerical stability of the Green Building library [6]. That way, simulating even complex, cou- pled numerical systems (linear and nonlinear) does not affect convergence. The presented project, for instance, comprised complex quarter models with up to 3000 system states. Simulating these models for one year causes around one million event iterations. The presented results are part of a research study which is funded by KFW (Development Load Cor- poration) and communal as well as private investors. The complete research project includes theoretical, Fig.9: Pictures of residential buildings (top left), historic school (bottom left) and ancient Lohmen castle (right) Session 1C: Building Energy Applications 1 DOI 10.3384/ECP1409697 Proceedings of the 10th International ModelicaConference March 10-12, 2014, Lund, Sweden 105
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