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公开(公告)号:US20190032943A1
公开(公告)日:2019-01-31
申请号:US16048092
申请日:2018-07-27
Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company
Inventor: Graeme Willmott , John H. Burroughs , Mohammad N. ElBsat , Michael J. Wenzel , Matthew J. Asmus
Abstract: Disclosed herein are a system, a method, and a non-transitory computer readable medium for operating an energy plant. In one aspect, the system obtains thermal energy load allocation data indicating time dependent thermal energy load of the energy plant. The system determines, for a time period, an operating state of the energy plant from a plurality of predefined operating states based on the thermal energy load allocation data. The system determines operating parameters of the energy plant according to the determined operating state. The system operates the energy plant according to the determined operating parameters.
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公开(公告)号:US12104812B2
公开(公告)日:2024-10-01
申请号:US16512712
申请日:2019-07-16
Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company
Inventor: John H. Burroughs , Andrew J. Przybylski , Matthew J. Ellis , Mohammad N. Elbsat , Michael J. Wenzel
IPC: F24F11/47 , F24F11/54 , F24F11/56 , F24F11/64 , F24F11/65 , F24F11/83 , G05B19/042 , F24F110/10 , F24F110/12 , F24F140/50 , F24F140/60
CPC classification number: F24F11/47 , F24F11/54 , F24F11/56 , F24F11/64 , F24F11/65 , F24F11/83 , G05B19/042 , F24F2110/10 , F24F2110/12 , F24F2140/50 , F24F2140/60 , G05B2219/2614
Abstract: One implementation of the present disclosure is a controller for a variable refrigerant flow system. The controller includes processors and memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processors, cause the processors to perform operations including identifying zones within a structure, generating zone groupings defining zone groups and specifying which of the zones are grouped together to form each of the zone groups, generating metric of success values corresponding to the zone groupings and indicating a control feasibility of a corresponding zone grouping, selecting a zone grouping based on the metric of success values, and using the selected zone grouping to operate equipment of the variable refrigerant flow system to provide heating or cooling to the zones.
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公开(公告)号:US20210063976A1
公开(公告)日:2021-03-04
申请号:US16555591
申请日:2019-08-29
Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company
Inventor: John H. Burroughs , Andrew J. Przybylski , Michael J. Wenzel
Abstract: A system controlling equipment to serve energy loads of a building includes a cost function generator configured to obtain a cost function of decision variables representing an amount of resources consumed or produced by the equipment, an optimizer configured to perform a first optimization of the cost function subject to a first set of constraints defining first values of constraint variables to generate a first result defining first values of decision variables, a constraint modifier configured determine a cost gradient, recommend changes to constraint variables, and modify constraint variables to modified values in response to changes. The optimizer is configured to perform an optimization of the cost function subject to a second set of constraints to generate a second optimization result defining second values of the decision variables. The system includes a controller that operates equipment to consume or produce resources defined by second values of the decision variables.
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公开(公告)号:US20210055698A1
公开(公告)日:2021-02-25
申请号:US16549931
申请日:2019-08-23
Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company
Inventor: Andrew J. Przybylski , John H. Burroughs , Michael J. Wenzel
Abstract: A method for operating a subplant included in a central plant includes obtaining instruction-based equipment models associated with devices included in the subplant and comprises operating points that define an operation of the devices, generating, for each instruction-based equipment models, a geometric equipment model using the operating points from a particular instruction-based equipment model, the geometric equipment model defining at least one operating domain associated with the particular device, merging geometric equipment models to form a geometric subplant model, the geometric subplant model defining an operation of the subplant comprising devices associated with the geometric equipment models, receiving a desired operating point comprising a load value, determining, relative to the desired operating point, a nearest operating point on the geometric subplant model, setting the nearest operating point on the geometric subplant model as an actual operating point, and operating the subplant at the actual operating point for the subplant.
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公开(公告)号:US20210018211A1
公开(公告)日:2021-01-21
申请号:US16516076
申请日:2019-07-18
Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company
Abstract: An HVAC system for automatically adjusting setpoint boundaries of a space includes building equipment configured to provide heating or cooling to the space to affect an environmental condition of the space and a controller. The controller obtains occupant setpoint adjustment data indicating occupant setpoint increases or occupant setpoint decreases at multiple times during a time interval and partitions the occupant setpoint adjustment data into time period bins based on the multiple times associated with the occupant setpoint adjustment data, each of the time period bins containing occupant setpoint adjustment data characterized by a common time attribute. The controller determines a number of occupant setpoint increases and a number of occupant setpoint decreases indicated by the occupant setpoint adjustment data within each time period bin and adjusts a setpoint boundary of the space based on the number of occupant setpoint increases or the number of occupant setpoint decreases.
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公开(公告)号:US20210018205A1
公开(公告)日:2021-01-21
申请号:US16513054
申请日:2019-07-16
Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company
Inventor: Matthew J. Ellis , Mohammad N. ELBSAT , Anas W. I. Alanqar , Michael J. Wenzel , John H. Burroughs
Abstract: A controller for performing automated system identification. The controller includes processors and non-transitory computer-readable media storing instructions that, when executed by the processors, cause the processors to perform operations including generating a predictive model to predict system dynamics of a space of a building based on environmental condition inputs and including performing an optimization of a cost function of operating building equipment over a time duration to determine a setpoint for the building equipment. The optimization is performed based on the predictive model. The operations include operating the building equipment based on the setpoint to affect a variable state or condition of the space and include monitoring prediction error metrics over time. The operations include, in response to detecting one of the prediction error metrics exceeds a threshold value, updating the predictive model.
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公开(公告)号:US20210018204A1
公开(公告)日:2021-01-21
申请号:US16512712
申请日:2019-07-16
Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company
Inventor: John H. Burroughs , Andrew J. Przybylski , Matthew J. Ellis , Mohammad N. ELBSAT , Michael J. Wenzel
Abstract: One implementation of the present disclosure is a controller for a variable refrigerant flow system. The controller includes processors and memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processors, cause the processors to perform operations including identifying zones within a structure, generating zone groupings defining zone groups and specifying which of the zones are grouped together to form each of the zone groups, generating metric of success values corresponding to the zone groupings and indicating a control feasibility of a corresponding zone grouping, selecting a zone grouping based on the metric of success values, and using the selected zone grouping to operate equipment of the variable refrigerant flow system to provide heating or cooling to the zones.
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公开(公告)号:US20200106385A1
公开(公告)日:2020-04-02
申请号:US16147349
申请日:2018-09-28
Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company
Inventor: Michael J. Wenzel , Kirk H. Drees , John I. Ruiz , Matthew J. Ellis , Mohammad N. ElBsat , John H. Burroughs , Juan Esteban Tapiero Bernal
Abstract: An energy storage system includes a photovoltaic energy field, a stationary energy storage device, an energy converter, and a controller. The photovoltaic energy field converts solar energy into electrical energy and charges the stationary energy storage device with the electrical energy. The energy converter converts the electrical energy stored in the stationary energy storage device into AC power at a discharge rate and supplies a campus with the AC power at the discharge rate. The controller generates a cost function of the energy consumption of the campus across a time horizon which relates a cost to operate the campus to the discharge rate of the AC power supplied by the stationary energy storage device. The controller applies constraints to the cost function, determines a minimizing solution to the cost function which satisfies the constraints, and controls the energy converter.
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公开(公告)号:US11592792B2
公开(公告)日:2023-02-28
申请号:US16775966
申请日:2020-01-29
Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company
Inventor: Andrew J. Przybylski , Michael J. Wenzel , John H. Burroughs , Matthew J. Ellis
Abstract: A method for controlling production of one or more refined resources by an energy provider includes predicting a demand for the refined resources by one or more consumers of the refined resources as a function of an incentive offered by the energy provider. The method further includes performing an optimization of an objective function subject to a constraint based on the predicted demand for the refined resources to determine an amount of the refined resources for the energy provider to produce and a value of the incentive at multiple times within a time period. The method also includes providing setpoints for equipment of the energy provider that cause the equipment to produce the amount of the refined resources determined by performing the optimization.
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公开(公告)号:US11209184B2
公开(公告)日:2021-12-28
申请号:US16246454
申请日:2019-01-11
Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company
Inventor: Michael J. Wenzel , Mohammad N. Elbsat , Matthew J. Ellis , Matthew J. Asmus , Andrew J. Przybylski , Ryan A. Baumgartner , John H. Burroughs , Kirk H. Drees , Robert D. Turney , Graeme Willmott
Abstract: A control system for a central energy facility with distributed energy storage includes a high level coordinator, a low level airside controller, a central plant controller, and a battery controller. The high level coordinator is configured to perform a high level optimization to generate an airside load profile for an airside system, a subplant load profile for a central plant, and a battery power profile for a battery. The low level airside controller is configured to use the airside load profile to operate airside HVAC equipment of the airside subsystem. The central plant controller is configured to use the subplant load profile to operate central plant equipment of the central plant. The battery controller is configured to use the battery power profile to control an amount of electric energy stored in the battery or discharged from the battery at each of a plurality of time steps in an optimization period.
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