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公开(公告)号:US10761547B2
公开(公告)日:2020-09-01
申请号:US14694633
申请日:2015-04-23
Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company
Inventor: Michael J. Risbeck , Robert D. Turney , Christos T. Maravelias
Abstract: A building HVAC system includes a waterside system and an airside system. The waterside system consumes one or more resources from utility providers to generate a heated and/or chilled fluid. The airside system uses the heated and/or chilled fluid to heat and/or cool a supply airflow provided to the building. A HVAC controller performs an integrated airside/waterside optimization process to simultaneously determine control outputs for both the waterside system and the airside system. The optimization process includes optimizing a predictive cost model that predicts the cost of the resources consumed by the HVAC system, subject to a set of optimization constraints including temperature constraints for the building. The HVAC controller uses the determined control outputs to control the HVAC equipment of the waterside system and the airside system.
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公开(公告)号:US10655878B2
公开(公告)日:2020-05-19
申请号:US16029255
申请日:2018-07-06
Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company
Inventor: Robert D. Turney , Liming Yang , Yunrui Wang , Yasutaka Yoshida , Kazumoto Urata
IPC: F24F11/46 , F24F11/52 , F24F11/56 , F24F11/64 , F24F11/74 , F24F11/86 , G05B13/02 , F24F11/65 , F24F140/60 , F24F140/50
Abstract: A variable refrigerant flow (VRF) system for a building. The VRF system includes at least one outdoor VRF unit configured to heat or cool a refrigerant for use in heating or cooling the building. The at least one outdoor VRF unit includes a sub-cooler and a bypass expansion valve configured to control a flow of the refrigerant through the sub-cooler and an extremum-seeking controller configured to generate a sub-cooling temperature setpoint for the at least one outdoor VRF unit. The extremum-seeking controller is configured to determine a total power consumption of the at least one outdoor VRF unit, generate a sub-cooling temperature setpoint for the at least one outdoor VRF unit using an extremum-seeking control technique that drives the total power consumption toward an extremum, and use the sub-cooling temperature setpoint to operate the at least one outdoor VRF unit.
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公开(公告)号:US20200072543A1
公开(公告)日:2020-03-05
申请号:US16122399
申请日:2018-09-05
Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company
Inventor: Robert D. Turney , Liming Yang
Abstract: A variable refrigerant flow system includes one or more outdoor units and a first indoor unit of a plurality of indoor units configured to receive refrigerant from the one or more outdoor units. The first indoor unit is configured to serve a first building zone. The variable refrigerant flow system also includes a user input device configured to receive a user command requesting heating or cooling of the first building zone by the first indoor unit. The variable refrigerant flow system also includes a controller configured to receive the command from the user input device, receive an indication of a current price of energy, in response to receiving the command generate a constraint on a capacity of the one or more outdoor units based on the current price of energy, and control the one or more outdoor units to operate in accordance with the constraint.
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公开(公告)号:US10564612B2
公开(公告)日:2020-02-18
申请号:US15635754
申请日:2017-06-28
Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company
Inventor: Nishith R. Patel , Matthew J. Ellis , Michael J. Wenzel , Robert D. Turney , Brett M. Lenhardt
Abstract: A model predictive control system is used to optimize energy cost in a variable refrigerant flow (VRF) system. The VRF system includes an outdoor subsystem and a plurality of indoor subsystems. The model predictive control system includes a high-level model predictive controller (MPC) and a plurality of low-level indoor MPCs. The high-level MPC performs a high-level optimization to generate an optimal indoor subsystem load profile for each of the plurality of indoor subsystems. The optimal indoor subsystem load profiles optimize energy cost. Each of the low-level indoor MPCs performs a low-level optimization to generate optimal indoor setpoints for one or more indoor VRF units of the corresponding indoor subsystem. The indoor setpoints can include temperature setpoints and/or refrigerant flow setpoints for the indoor VRF units.
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公开(公告)号:US20190271978A1
公开(公告)日:2019-09-05
申请号:US16418686
申请日:2019-05-21
Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company
Inventor: Mohammad N. ElBsat , Michael J. Wenzel , Zhigang Wu , Yasutaka Yoshida , Robert D. Turney , Liming Yang
Abstract: An automatic work order generation system for model predictive maintenance (MPM) of building equipment including an MPM system including an equipment controller to operate the building equipment to affect an environmental condition of a building. The MPM system can perform a predictive optimization to determine a service time at which to service the building equipment. The automatic work order generation system includes an equipment service scheduler that can determine whether any service providers are available to perform equipment service within a predetermined time range of the service time. In response to determining that service providers are available to perform the equipment service, the equipment service scheduler can select a service provider and an appointment time based on one or more service provider attributes. The equipment service scheduler can generate a service work order and transmit the service work order to the service provider to schedule a service appointment.
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公开(公告)号:US20190206000A1
公开(公告)日:2019-07-04
申请号:US16352612
申请日:2019-03-13
Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company
Inventor: Mohammad N. ElBsat , Michael J. Wenzel , Robert D. Turney
CPC classification number: G06Q50/06 , G05B13/041 , G06Q10/06315 , H02J3/14 , H02J3/32 , H02J3/383 , H02J2003/003 , H02J2003/007
Abstract: A building energy system includes a controller configured to obtain representative loads and rates for a plurality of scenarios and generate a cost function comprising a risk attribute and multiple demand charges. Each of the demand charges corresponds to a demand charge period and defines a cost based on a maximum amount of at least one of the energy resources purchased within the corresponding demand charge period. The controller is configured to determine, for each of the multiple demand charges, a peak demand target for the corresponding demand charge period by performing a first optimization of the risk attribute over the plurality of the scenarios, allocate an amount of the one or more energy resources to be consumed, produced, stored, or discharged by the building equipment by performing a second optimization subject to one or more constraints based on the peak demand target for each of the multiple demand charges.
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公开(公告)号:US10190793B2
公开(公告)日:2019-01-29
申请号:US15247875
申请日:2016-08-25
Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company
Inventor: Kirk H. Drees , Michael J. Wenzel , Robert D. Turney
IPC: F24F11/65 , G05B15/02 , H02J3/14 , H02J3/28 , H02J15/00 , F24F11/30 , G05B13/02 , G05B19/042 , H02J3/38 , H02J7/00 , G05B13/04 , H02J3/00 , H02J3/32 , H02J7/35 , H02J13/00
Abstract: A central plant that generates and provides resources to a building. The central plant includes an electrical energy storage subplant configured to store electrical energy purchased from a utility and to discharge the stored electrical energy. The central plant includes a plurality of generator subplants that consume one or more input resources. The central plant includes a controller configured to determine, for each time step within a time horizon, an optimal allocation of the input resources and the output resources for each of the subplants in order to optimize a total monetary value of operating the central plant over the time horizon. The total monetary value includes revenue from participating in incentive-based demand response programs as well as costs associated with resource consumption, equipment degradation, and losses in battery capacity.
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公开(公告)号:US20180341255A1
公开(公告)日:2018-11-29
申请号:US15895836
申请日:2018-02-13
Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company
Inventor: Robert D. Turney , Sudhi R. Sinha
Abstract: A model predictive maintenance (MPM) system for building equipment includes an equipment controller configured to operate the building equipment to affect a variable state or condition in a building and an operational cost predictor configured to predict a cost of operating the building equipment over a duration of an optimization period. The MPM system includes a maintenance cost predictor configured to predict a cost of performing maintenance on the building equipment over the duration of the optimization period and an objective function optimizer configured to optimize an objective function to predict a total cost associated with the building equipment over the duration of the optimization period. The objective function includes the predicted cost of operating the building equipment and the predicted cost of performing maintenance on the building equipment.
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公开(公告)号:US20180313557A1
公开(公告)日:2018-11-01
申请号:US15625830
申请日:2017-06-16
Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company
Inventor: Robert D. Turney , Matthew J. Ellis , Michael J. Wenzel , Mohammad N. EIBsat , Juan Esteban Tapiero Bernal , Brennan H. Fentzlaff
IPC: F24F11/00 , G05D23/19 , G05B19/048 , G05B19/042
CPC classification number: F24F11/30 , F24F11/00 , F24F11/46 , F24F11/47 , F24F11/52 , F24F11/58 , F24F11/62 , F24F11/64 , F24F11/65 , F24F11/89 , F24F2110/10 , F24F2110/12 , F24F2140/50 , F24F2140/60 , G05B19/0426 , G05B19/048 , G05B2219/2614 , G05D23/1904 , G05D23/1917 , G05D23/1923
Abstract: A thermostat includes an equipment controller and a model predictive controller. The equipment controller is configured to drive the temperature of a building zone to an optimal temperature setpoint by operating HVAC equipment to provide heating or cooling to the building zone. The model predictive controller is configured to determine the optimal temperature setpoint by generating a cost function that accounts for a cost operating the HVAC equipment during each of a plurality of time steps in an optimization period, using a predictive model to predict the temperature of the building zone during each of the plurality of time steps, and optimizing the cost function subject to a constraint on the predicted temperature of the building zone to determine optimal temperature setpoints for each of the time steps.
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公开(公告)号:US10088814B2
公开(公告)日:2018-10-02
申请号:US14970187
申请日:2015-12-15
Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company
Inventor: Michael J. Wenzel , Robert D. Turney
Abstract: A controller for a building system receives training data that includes input data and output data. The output data measures a state of the building system affected by both the input data and an extraneous disturbance. The controller performs a two-stage optimization process to identify system parameters and Kalman gain parameters of a dynamic model for the building system. During the first stage, the controller filters the training data to remove an effect of the extraneous disturbance from the output data and uses the filtered training data to identify the system parameters. During the second stage, the controller uses the non-filtered training data to identify the Kalman gain parameters. The controller uses the dynamic model with the identified system parameters and Kalman gain parameters to generate a setpoint for the building system. The building system uses the setpoint to affect the state measured by the output data.
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