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Integrating scheduling and control for economic MPC of buildings with energy storage by Touretzky, Cara R., Baldea, Michael

“…•Application of economic MPC to buildings with active energy storage.•Novel computationally efficient formulation consisting of a scheduling and a control…”
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Optimal Process Operations in Fast-Changing Electricity Markets: Framework for Scheduling with Low-Order Dynamic Models and an Air Separation Application by Pattison, Richard C, Touretzky, Cara R, Johansson, Ted, Harjunkoski, Iiro, Baldea, Michael

“…Today’s fast-changing markets often require the granularity of production schedules to be refined to time scales comparable to the time constants of a chemical…”
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Moving horizon closed‐loop production scheduling using dynamic process models by Pattison, Richard C., Touretzky, Cara R., Harjunkoski, Iiro, Baldea, Michael

“…The economic circumstances that define the operation of chemical processes (e.g., product demand, feedstock and energy prices) are increasingly variable. To…”
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Nonlinear model reduction and model predictive control of residential buildings with energy recovery by Touretzky, Cara R., Baldea, Michael

“…•Propose physically meaningful aggregate models based on building design parameters.•Use singular perturbation theory to analyze building multiple time scale…”
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Dynamic models and fault diagnosis‐based triggers for closed‐loop scheduling by Touretzky, Cara R., Harjunkoski, Iiro, Baldea, Michael

“…Establishing an explicit feedback connection between production management and process control decisions is a key requirement for more nimble and cost…”
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Building-level power demand forecasting framework using building specific inputs: Development and applications by Touretzky, Cara R., Patil, Rakesh

“…•ARX models and physics based modeling approaches for power forecasting.•Compare sensitivity of input/output relationships and relevance to decision…”
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The effect of distributed electricity generation using natural gas on the electric and natural gas grids by Touretzky, Cara R., McGuffin, Dana L., Ziesmer, Jena C., Baldea, Michael

“…•Gas-fueled distributed generation increases dependency of electric grid on gas grid.•Optimal operation of group of 10kW and 50kW electric generators for load…”
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A Framework for Integrated Scheduling and Control using Discrete-Time Dynamic Process Models by Touretzky, Cara R., Harjunkoski, Iiro, Baldea, Michael

“…We address the integration of production scheduling and process control using discrete-time, data-driven process models. Our work is based on the…”
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A hierarchical scheduling and control strategy for thermal energy storage systems by Touretzky, Cara R., Baldea, Michael

“…•Hierarchical control design for managing active/passive thermal storage in buildings.•Fast control layer with frequent updating for passive storage.•Slow…”
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Nonlinear model predictive control of energy-integrated process systems by Baldea, Michael, Touretzky, Cara R.

“…Improving energy efficiency has become particularly important in chemical processes in view of recent increases in energy prices, growing environmental…”
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Optimal operation of phase-change thermal energy storage for a commercial building by Touretzky, Cara R., Salliot, Antoine A., Lefevre, Laurent, Baldea, Michael

“…In this work, we address the modeling and control challenges posed by optimizing the operation of phase change material (PCM) thermal energy storage (TES)…”
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Handling input dynamics in integrated scheduling and control by Baldea, Michael, Touretzky, Cara R., Park, Jungup, Pattison, Richard C., Harjunkoski, Iiro

“…Coordinating production scheduling decisions with the process control system requires considering the evolution of the process over multiple time scales and at…”
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Model reduction and nonlinear MPC for energy management in buildings by Touretzky, Cara R., Baldea, Michael

“…In this paper, we introduce a singular perturbations framework for the dynamic analysis and model reduction of building models. Working with a prototype…”
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Concurrent nonlinear predictive control and economic management of energy-integrated systems by Baldea, Michael, Touretzky, Cara R.

“…We consider a class of process systems with significant energy recovery. Revisiting our previous results concerning the two time scale dynamics of such…”
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