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Vlaamse Instelling Voor Technologisch Onderzoek

Reinhilde D'Hulst

Bert Claessens

Johan Driesen

Johan Van Bael

Koen Vanthournout

Sam Weckx

Method and system for distributing and/or controlling an energy flow to a cluster of a plurality of nodes in an electricity network, wherein each node has an associated status, taking into account constraints relating to the energy delivered to the nodes and constraints relating to the electricity network, comprised of:

Method and system for distributing and/or controlling an energy flow taking into account constraints relating to the electricity network

A method for buffering thermal energy comprises a thermal buffering medium contained by a thermal energy buffer. The volume of the thermal buffering medium is subdivided in one or more parts such that the different parts of the volume of the thermal buffering medium together form the total thermal buffering medium. The thermal energy buffer comprises a temperature sensor for each part. A controller has at least one signal representing at least one thermal energy value related to the thermal energy buffer. The thermal energy values comprise a predetermined minimum amount of thermal energy present in the thermal energy buffer. The controller controls a heater such that the amount of thermal energy present in the thermal energy buffer is higher than or equals the predetermined minimum amount of energy present in the thermal energy buffer.

Method and system for buffering thermal energy and thermal energy buffer system

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