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Model predictive building climate control for mitigating heat pump noise pollution

Li, Yun
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Shi, Jicheng  
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Jones, Colin N.  
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2025
European Journal of Control

Noise pollution from heat pumps (HPs) has been an emerging concern to their broader adoption, especially in densely populated areas. This paper explores a model predictive control (MPC) approach for climate control of buildings, aimed at minimizing the noise nuisance generated by HPs. By exploiting a piecewise linear approximation of HP noise patterns and assuming linear building thermal dynamics, the proposed design can be generalized to handle various HP acoustic patterns with mixed-integer linear programming (MILP). Additionally, two computationally efficient options for defining the noise cost function in the proposed MPC design are discussed. Numerical experiments on a high-fidelity building simulator are performed to demonstrate the viability and effectiveness of the proposed design. Simulation results show that minimizing the excess of HP noise over ambient noise is effective in mitigating the HP noise nuisance. Further, compared with the conventional MPC-based building climate control scheme, the proposed approach can effectively reduce the HP noise pollution with only a minor energy cost increase.

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research article
DOI
10.1016/j.ejcon.2025.101323
Scopus ID

2-s2.0-105012836792

Author(s)
Li, Yun

Delft Center for Systems and Control

Shi, Jicheng  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Jones, Colin N.  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Yorke-Smith, Neil

Delft University of Technology

Keviczky, Tamas

Delft Center for Systems and Control

Date Issued

2025

Published in
European Journal of Control
Article Number

101323

Subjects

Building climate control

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Heat pump noise pollution

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Model predictive control

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Noise mitigation

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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EPFL

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LA3  
FunderFunding(s)Grant NumberGrant URL

Dutch grant programme for Mission-Driven Research, Development and Innovation

MOOI

Swiss National Science Foundation

51NF40_180545

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August 20, 2025
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/253006
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