Optimization Control and Energy Conservation in Smart Heating Systems
A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Building Energy, Physics, Environment, and Systems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 29 August 2025 | Viewed by 1025
Special Issue Editors
Interests: district heating system; heat metering; heating control; energy economy; smart heating; Internet of Things (IoT) in energy engineering
Interests: heating system modeling; model calibration; heating control and optimization; energy efficiency; energy systems; energy storage
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Dear Colleagues,
District heating is an energy service based on customers directly moving heat from available heat sources to be immediately used. Today, the fundamental idea of district heating is to use local fuel or heat resources that would otherwise be wasted (such as excess heat from industrial processes or low-grade air and soil energy) to satisfy local customer demand for heating, using a heat distribution network of pipes as a local marketplace.
The industry generally believes that with the support of big data, AI, Internet of Things (IoT), and other technologies, smart heating that integrates more fluctuating renewable energy (such as wind and solar energy) will become the inevitable choice for urban smart management and clean heating. In fact, with the continuous developments and growth in district heating systems, the automatic operation represented by smart heating has begun to replace manual work and the remote control and automatic operation of heat substations have become a reality.
Many service and solution providers believe that smart heating should cover the "heat source, heating networks, heat substations, heat demand, and heat storage", and the existing isolated data system should be planned and integrated as soon as possible to form a complete smart heating data information system. This means that intelligent analysis, scheduling, and optimization can be implemented with reliable data and advanced algorithms. Academia and industry should work together to develop the conventional heating system into a new era of smart heating.
This Special Issue aims to gather significant research contributions focusing on and linking practical applications and scientific research on existing and new methods for smart heating, optimization control, advanced heat metering, and energy conservation in district heating systems. We also welcome all types of articles reporting original, pioneering research with experimental, theoretical, and numerical findings revealing pertinent aspects of smart heating.
Prof. Dr. Chengying Qi
Dr. Jinda Wang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- district heating system
- heat metering
- smart heating
- heat regulation and management
- optimal control of building energy systems
- building energy saving
- thermo-active building systems (TABSs)
- energy system modeling and simulation
- energy system planning and optimization
- renewable energy
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