Development of supervisory control strategy for online control of central cooling water systems

Shengwei Wang, Zhenjun Ma, Xinhua Xu

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Abstract

This paper presents a model-based supervisory control strategy for online control of building central cooling water systems to enhance their energy efficiency. Simplified chiller and cooling tower models are developed and used to predict the system energy performance, environment quality as well as the system response to the changes of control settings. A novel and simple optimization technique, named as PMES method, is developed and used to seek the optimal control settings under the given working conditions. The performance of both simplified models is validated using the field measurement data and/or the factory performance test data while the performance of this model-based supervisory control strategy is evaluated by comparing with that of near optimal control strategies and other conventional control strategies for cooling water systems through simulations. The implementation issues of the supervisory control strategy for practical applications are also presented.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIBPSA 2007 - International Building Performance Simulation Association 2007
Pages1319-1326
Number of pages8
Publication statusPublished - 1 Dec 2007
EventBuilding Simulation 2007, BS 2007 - Beijing, China
Duration: 3 Sept 20076 Sept 2007

Conference

ConferenceBuilding Simulation 2007, BS 2007
Country/TerritoryChina
CityBeijing
Period3/09/076/09/07

Keywords

  • Energy efficiency
  • Optimization method
  • Simplified model
  • Supervisory control

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Science Applications
  • Building and Construction
  • Architecture
  • Modelling and Simulation

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