Smart Buildings

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Learning Outcomes

Resource management including water and energy saving, sustainable development, economic development, security, well-being, innovation either by adopting new technologies or using existing techniques are actual issues attracting the attention of academia and companies that are developing new solutions.

It is a concept that adapts to the local urban context, because it is not defined by its solutions but by objectives it seeks to achieve.

This module presents the problematic of energy management, describes the equipment and technology used to manage efficiently the electrical power distribution.

Main goals:

1. General concepts and definitions in the multi-source power systems;

2. Common bus for coupled sources with associated static converters;

3. Standalone multi-source renewable systems: structures, sizing and storage management;

4. Distributed and local management of networks using block chain.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

• SmartGrid, Microgrid network: to put forward the ongoing changes in electrical networks to account for the use of locally produced sustainable (solar or wind) energy;

• Renewable energy system: to have an overview of the different possible arrangements and to be aware of the impacts of the integration of the sustainable energy;

• Management system: to manage intermittent flow of power production, a centralized or distributed system is used to supervise and control each renewable plant system.