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Lieve Helsen

Lieve Helsen

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Engineering and Technology

D-Index
53
Citations
11455
World Ranking
3374
National Ranking
43

Overview

Lieve Helsen is affiliated with KU Leuven in Belgium and specializes in engineering with a strong focus on building and construction, electrical and electronic engineering, as well as control and systems engineering. Their research portfolio includes significant contributions to renewable energy, sustainability, environmental engineering, and integrated energy systems.

Their main topics of work cover several areas, including:

  • Building Energy and Comfort Optimization
  • Advanced Control Systems Optimization
  • Integrated Energy Systems Optimization
  • Geothermal Energy Systems and Applications
  • Smart Grid Energy Management
  • Modeling and Simulation Systems
  • Wind and Air Flow Studies

Lieve Helsen has authored multiple recent papers, such as:

  • "All you need to know about model predictive control for buildings" (2020), published in Annual Reviews in Control
  • "Reinforced model predictive control (RL-MPC) for building energy management" (2022), published in Applied Energy
  • "Building optimization testing framework (BOPTEST) for simulation-based benchmarking of control strategies in buildings" (2021), published in Journal of Building Performance Simulation
  • "Cloud-based implementation of white-box model predictive control for a GEOTABS office building: A field test demonstration" (2020), published in Journal of Process Control
  • "Ten questions concerning reinforcement learning for building energy management" (2023), published in Building and Environment

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Helsen include:

  • Javier Arroyo
  • Iago Cupeiro Figueroa
  • Filip Jorissen
  • Wim Boydens
  • Jelle Laverge

Their publications appear primarily in venues such as:

  • Building Simulation Conference proceedings
  • Journal of Building Performance Simulation
  • Energy and Buildings
  • Linköping electronic conference proceedings
  • Applied Energy

Lieve Helsen has contributed to book publications, including a work published by Ghent University titled Renewable and Storage-integrated Systems to Supply Comfort in Buildings: pre-design and control for hybridGEOTABS projects (2021).

Best Publications

  • Anaerobic digestion in global bio-energy production: Potential and research challenges

    Lise Appels;Joost Lauwers;Jan Degrève;Lieve Helsen

  • All you need to know about model predictive control for buildings

    Ján Drgoňa;Ján Drgoňa;Javier Arroyo;Iago Cupeiro Figueroa;David Blum

  • The crucial role of Waste-to-Energy technologies in enhanced landfill mining: a technology review

    Anouk Bosmans;Ive Vanderreydt;Daneel Geysen;Lieve Helsen

  • Controlling district heating and cooling networks to unlock flexibility: A review

    Annelies Vandermeulen;Bram van der Heijde;Lieve Helsen

  • Assessing electrical bottlenecks at feeder level for residential net zero-energy buildings by integrated system simulation

    R. Baetens;R. De Coninck;J. Van Roy;B. Verbruggen

  • Reinforced model predictive control (RL-MPC) for building energy management

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  • Approximate model predictive building control via machine learning

    Ján Drgoňa;Damien Picard;Michal Kvasnica;Lieve Helsen

  • Integrated modeling of active demand response with electric heating systems coupled to thermal energy storage systems

    Dieter Patteeuw;Dieter Patteeuw;Kenneth Bruninx;Kenneth Bruninx;Alessia Arteconi;Erik Delarue;Erik Delarue

  • The impact of thermal storage on the operational behaviour of residential CHP facilities and the overall CO2 emissions

    Dries Haeseldonckx;Leen Peeters;Lieve Helsen;William D’haeseleer

  • Practical implementation and evaluation of model predictive control for an office building in Brussels

    Roel De Coninck;Lieve Helsen

  • Quantification of flexibility in buildings by cost curves – Methodology and application

    Roel De Coninck;Lieve Helsen

  • Dynamic equation-based thermo-hydraulic pipe model for district heating and cooling systems

    B. Van Der Heijde;M. Fuchs;C. Ribas Tugores;G. Schweiger

  • Study of the optimal control problem formulation for modulating air-to-water heat pumps connected to a residential floor heating system

    Clara Verhelst;Filip Logist;Jan Van Impe;Lieve Helsen

  • Reduction of heat pump induced peak electricity use and required generation capacity through thermal energy storage and demand response

    Brecht Baeten;Frederik Rogiers;Lieve Helsen

  • Control of heating systems in residential buildings: Current practice

    L. Peeters;J. Van der Veken;H. Hens;L. Helsen

  • Implementation and verification of the IDEAS building energy simulation library

    F. Jorissen;G. Reynders;R. Baetens;D. Picard

  • Review of disposal technologies for chromated copper arsenate (CCA) treated wood waste, with detailed analyses of thermochemical conversion processes.

    Lieve Helsen;Eric Van den Bulck

  • Ten questions concerning integrating smart buildings into the smart grid

    Thomas M. Lawrence;Marie-Claude Boudreau;Lieve Helsen;Gregor Henze

  • Plasma gasification of refuse derived fuel in a single-stage system using different gasifying agents

    N. Agon;M. Hrabovský;O. Chumak;M. Hlína

  • Comparison of load shifting incentives for low-energy buildings with heat pumps to attain grid flexibility benefits

    Dieter Patteeuw;Gregor P. Henze;Lieve Helsen

  • Active demand response with electric heating systems: Impact of market penetration

    Alessia Arteconi;Dieter Patteeuw;Dieter Patteeuw;Kenneth Bruninx;Kenneth Bruninx;Erik Delarue;Erik Delarue

  • OPENIDEAS - AN OPEN FRAMEWORK FOR INTEGRATED DISTRICT ENERGY SIMULATIONS

    Ruben Baetens;Roel De Coninck;Filip Jorissen;Damien Picard

Frequent Co-Authors

Johan Driesen
Johan Driesen KU Leuven
Erik Delarue
Erik Delarue KU Leuven
Michael Wetter
Michael Wetter Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Gerd Vandersteen
Gerd Vandersteen Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Weihong Yang
Weihong Yang Royal Institute of Technology
Colin N. Jones
Colin N. Jones École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Gregor P. Henze
Gregor P. Henze University of Colorado Boulder

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