US2025020376A1PendingUtilityA1

Refrigeration cycle control device, and refrigeration cycle device

Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPPriority: May 18, 2022Filed: Sep 30, 2024Published: Jan 16, 2025
Est. expiryMay 18, 2042(~15.8 yrs left)· nominal 20-yr term from priority
F25B 47/02F25B 2500/19F25B 49/00F25B 2700/2106F25B 2700/1933F25B 13/00F25B 49/02
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Abstract

A refrigeration cycle state predicting device according to the present disclosed technique is a refrigeration cycle state predictor constituting a refrigeration cycle device, and includes a predictor to calculate a prediction value of a future state of the refrigeration cycle device on the basis of an input provisional operation amount array.

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1 . A refrigeration cycle controller constituting a refrigeration cycle device, wherein,
 the refrigeration cycle device includes a plurality of indoor equipments having different refrigerant systems in the same room, or includes an indoor equipment having a plurality of heat exchangers having different refrigerant systems,   the refrigeration cycle controller comprising:   an operation amount calculator to calculate a provisional operation amount array by calculation in such a manner as to satisfy a constraint condition; and   a refrigeration cycle state predictor including a predictor to calculate a prediction value in a future state of the refrigeration cycle device by referring to the input provisional operation amount array,   wherein,   the operation amount calculator includes, an evaluator to calculate a value of an evaluation function used to calculate the provisional operation amount array, and an optimization calculator to obtain a solution of the provisional operation amount array minimizing the value of the evaluation function,   and wherein,   the evaluation function includes the following penalty term (V p ),   
       
         
           
             
               
                 
                   
                     
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         2 . A refrigeration cycle controller constituting a refrigeration cycle device, wherein,
 the refrigeration cycle device includes a plurality of indoor equipments having different refrigerant systems in the same room, or includes an indoor equipment having a plurality of heat exchangers having different refrigerant systems,   the refrigeration cycle controller comprising:   an operation amount calculator to calculate a provisional operation amount array by calculation in such a manner as to satisfy a constraint condition; and   a refrigeration cycle state predictor including a predictor to calculate a prediction value in a future state of the refrigeration cycle device by referring to the input provisional operation amount array,   wherein,   the operation amount calculator executes the following operation of,   (a) provisionally generates a provisional operation amount array indicating that all the refrigerant systems are in a normal operation mode at all times;   (b) initializes a defrosting operable time (t d );   (c) by defining a set R d  being the set of refrigerant systems in which the amount of frost is estimated not to exceed the upper limit of the amount of frost (F n ), checks whether or not R d  is an empty set, and,   
       if R d  is an empty set, the processing operation is ended, and if R d  is not an empty set, the processing operation proceeds to operation (d);
 (d) determines the period during which the defrosting operation is to be performed for a refrigerant system having the slowest time at which a frosting amount exceeds the frosting amount upper limit value (F n ) among the refrigerant systems included in R d ; 
 (e) updates the defrosting operable time (t d ) and updates R d . 
 
     
     
         3 . A refrigeration cycle device comprising the refrigeration cycle controller according to  claim 1 .

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