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TY - JOUR
T1 - Data-Based Mechanistic Modelling (DBM) and control of mass and energy transfer in agricultural buildings
AU - Price, Laura
AU - Young, Peter C.
AU - Berckmans, Daniel
AU - Janssens, Karl
AU - Taylor, C. James
PY - 1999
Y1 - 1999
N2 - This paper discusses the Data-Based Mechanistic (DBM) approach to modelling the micro-climate in agricultural buildings. Here, the imperfect mixing processes that dominate the system behaviour during forced ventilation are first modelled objectively, in purely data-based terms, by continuous-time transfer function relationships. In their equivalent differential equation form, however, these models can be interpreted in terms of the Active Mixing Volume (AMV) concept, developed previously at Lancaster in connection with pollution transport in rivers and soils and, latterly, in modelling the micro-climate of horticultural glasshouses. The data used in the initial stages of the research project, as described in the paper, have been obtained from a series of planned ventilation experiments carried out in a large instrumented chamber at Leuven. The overall objectives of this collaborative study are two-fold: first, to gain a better understanding of the mass and heat transfer dynamics in the chamber; and second, to develop models that can form the basis for the design of optimal Proportional-Integral-Plus, Linear Quadratic (PIP-LQ) climate control systems for livestock buildings of a kind used previously for controlling the micro-climate in horticultural glasshouses.
AB - This paper discusses the Data-Based Mechanistic (DBM) approach to modelling the micro-climate in agricultural buildings. Here, the imperfect mixing processes that dominate the system behaviour during forced ventilation are first modelled objectively, in purely data-based terms, by continuous-time transfer function relationships. In their equivalent differential equation form, however, these models can be interpreted in terms of the Active Mixing Volume (AMV) concept, developed previously at Lancaster in connection with pollution transport in rivers and soils and, latterly, in modelling the micro-climate of horticultural glasshouses. The data used in the initial stages of the research project, as described in the paper, have been obtained from a series of planned ventilation experiments carried out in a large instrumented chamber at Leuven. The overall objectives of this collaborative study are two-fold: first, to gain a better understanding of the mass and heat transfer dynamics in the chamber; and second, to develop models that can form the basis for the design of optimal Proportional-Integral-Plus, Linear Quadratic (PIP-LQ) climate control systems for livestock buildings of a kind used previously for controlling the micro-climate in horticultural glasshouses.
KW - Data-based modelling
KW - imperfect mixing
KW - forced ventilation
KW - micro-climate
KW - heat and mass transfer
KW - active mixing volume
KW - control volume
KW - optimal control
U2 - 10.1016/S1367-5788(99)90063-9
DO - 10.1016/S1367-5788(99)90063-9
M3 - Journal article
VL - 23
SP - 71
EP - 82
JO - Annual Reviews in Control
JF - Annual Reviews in Control
SN - 1367-5788
IS - 1
ER -