A possibility of increasing interest for reducing the energy consumption in office and health care buildings consist in better exploiting the potential of the heat pump technology. This can be done by recovering heat at the condenser when the chiller is used to produce cold (simultaneous heating and cooling demands) or by using the chiller in heat pump mode (non-simultaneous heating and cooling...

This paper investigates the thermodynamic framework of a three-bed advanced adsorption chiller, where the mass recovery scheme has been utilized such that the performances of this chiller could be improved and a CFC-free-based sorption chiller driven by the low-grade waste heat or any renewable energy source can be developed for the next generation of refrigeration. Silica gel-water is chosen a...

Energy hub systems integrate various energy sources and interconnect different carriers in order to enhance the flexibility of system. In this paper, a cooperative framework is proposed which network hubs collaborate together share their resources reduce costs. Each has several including CHP, boiler, renewable sources, electrical chiller, absorption chiller. Moreover, storages are considered fo...

Based on the model-free adaptive control (MFAC) theory, temperature tracking problem of single-effect LiBr/H2O absorption chiller is explored. Due to complex nonlinearity and strong coupling characteristics refrigeration system, strategy designed for its control. Nevertheless, traditional has a slow speed poor denoising ability. In order improve effect, output error rate added objective functio...

More than half the energy to run a data center can be consumed by vapor-compression equipment that cools the center. To reduce consumption and recycle otherwise wasted thermal energy, this paper proposes an alternative cooling architecture that is heat driven and leads to a more efficient data center in terms of power usage effectiveness (PUE). The primary thermal source is waste heat produced ...

Chiller plants are the most energy consuming system during summer season in residential, commercial and hospital buildings. The highly variable cooling demand of buildings connected to a hybrid chiller plant included absorption vapor compression chillers achieve higher efficiencies is one important issues. Cooling load sharing strategies apply water flow have significant impact on consumption c...

The ventilation and air conditioning systems of large commercial buildings are typically driven by chilled-water plants with multiple chillers. Real-time optimization and sequencing of such plants is thus critical for building efficiency (AHRI 2011). Due to the complexity and cost for calibrating chiller plant in field operation, model-free control has become an attractive solution. In an earli...