Water circulation system for air conditioning system and control method thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10948211-B2
Application number	US-201916409544-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 10, 2019
Priority date	May 11, 2018
Publication date	Mar 16, 2021
Grant date	Mar 16, 2021

Abstract

A water circulation system for air conditioning system and a control method thereof, wherein the water circulation loop comprises: a main loop provided with air-conditioning indoor units, air-conditioning outdoor units and an actuator, and a bypass branch connected between upstream and downstream of the air-conditioning outdoor units and provided with a bypass valve; the control method comprises: S100, starting the water circulation system after receiving a start command; S200, executing a PID control step after initialization and a first preset time period of the water circulation system; S300, executing a feed forward control step when the operating states of the air-conditioning indoor units and/or the air-conditioning outdoor units are changed, and going back to execute the PID control step after a second preset time period; and S400, executing a shutdown step of the water circulation system after receiving a shutdown command.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A control method of a water circulation system for air conditioning system, wherein the water circulation loop comprises: a main loop provided with air-conditioning indoor units, air-conditioning outdoor units and an actuator, and a bypass branch connected between upstream and downstream of the air-conditioning outdoor units and provided with a bypass valve; and the control method comprises:
S 100 , starting the water circulation system after receiving a start command;
S 200 , executing a PID control step after initialization and a first preset time period of the water circulation system;
S 300 , executing a feed forward control step when the operating states of the air-conditioning indoor units and/or the air-conditioning outdoor units are changed, and going back to execute the PID control step after a second preset time period; and
S 400 , executing a shutdown step of the water circulation system after receiving a shutdown command.

2. The control method according to claim 1 , wherein the start step comprises: adjusting the actuator to a first preset frequency and/or adjusting the bypass valve to a first preset opening degree and maintaining the first preset time period.

3. The control method according to claim 1 , wherein the PID control step comprises: controlling the frequency of the actuator and/or the opening degree of the bypass valve and maintaining the pressure difference of the air-conditioning outdoor units in a preset range of pressure difference.

4. The control method according to claim 3 , wherein the temperature difference between inlet water and outlet water of the air-conditioning outdoor units corresponding to the preset range of pressure difference is 5° C.

5. The control method according to claim 1 , wherein the feed forward control step comprises: acquiring the operating states of the air-conditioning indoor units and the air-conditioning outdoor units and obtaining a feed forward rule through processing; and
controlling the operation of the actuator and/or the bypass valve based on the feed forward rule when the operating states of the air-conditioning indoor units and the air-conditioning outdoor units are changed, and maintaining a second preset time period.

6. The control method according to claim 1 , wherein the shutdown step comprises: adjusting the actuator to a second preset frequency and/or adjusting the bypass valve to a second preset opening degree.

7. The control method according to claim 1 , wherein the control method further comprises: S 500 , performing split range control over the actuator and the bypass valve in the PID control step, the feed forward control step and/or the shutdown step, with the actuator being controlled in the first range and the bypass valve being controlled in the second range.

8. The control method according to claim 7 , wherein the control method further comprises: providing nonlinear compensation for the split range control in the PID control step so that the frequency change of the actuator and the opening degree change of the bypass valve correspond to the pressure difference of the air-conditioning outdoor units.

9. The control method according to claim 7 , wherein the control method further comprises: in the PID control step, normalizing the frequency of the actuator and/or the opening degree of the bypass valve inputted and the pressure difference of the air-conditioning outdoor units outputted in the PID control step.

10. The control method according to claim 1 , wherein S 300 further comprises: executing the feed forward control step again and timing the second preset time period again if the operating states of the air-conditioning indoor units and/or the air-conditioning outdoor units are changed again.

11. The control method according to claim 1 , wherein the first preset time period is 5 s.

12. The control method according to claim 1 , wherein the second preset time period is 20 s.

13. A water circulation system for air conditioning system, comprising:
a main loop, provided with air-conditioning indoor units, air-conditioning outdoor units and an actuator;
a bypass branch, provided with a bypass valve and communicable to upstream and downstream of the air-conditioning outdoor units in a controlled manner; and
a state machine, which is used to execute the control method of claim 1 .

Assignees

• Carrier Corp

Inventors

• Chang Liang
• Sun Jingwei
• Sun Pei
• Wang Lishan
• Ni Jian
• Lu Qing

Classifications

• F24F5/0003 Primary

  Exclusively-fluid systems · CPC title

• F24F11/49 Primary

  ensuring correct operation, e.g. by trial operation or configuration checks · CPC title

• F24F11/61

  using timers · CPC title

• B60H1/00885

  Controlling the flow of heating or cooling liquid, e.g. valves or pumps (B60H1/00899 takes precedence; constructions of valves B60H1/00485) · CPC title

• F24F11/64

  using pre-stored data · CPC title