Pump control system
First Claim
1. A pump control system used for pressurized water supply systems and provided with primary supply pumps that supply chilled water or hot water from a return header to a primary supply header via refrigerators, heat pump chillers, or boilers, secondary supply pumps that are provided with inverters and supply chilled water or hot water from said primary supply header to a secondary supply header, a flow sensor that measures the flow from said secondary supply header to said return header, and a pressure difference sensor that measures the pressure difference between said secondary supply header and said return header, further comprising a secondary pump controller that determines a supply pressure from the secondary supply pumps using a flow rate measured with said flow sensor, carries out prescribed calculations based on this supply pressure and a discharge pressure measured with said pressure difference sensor, and outputs a control signal corresponding to the calculated result to said inverters.
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Abstract
The present invention provides a system which comprises primary supply pumps and secondary supply pumps and controls pressurized water supply systems, air-conditioning systems, or the like that supply chilled water or hot water using these pumps. In the present invention, calculation is carried out based on measurement signals obtained by measuring pressure, flow rate, open rate of valves, etc. by providing sensors in supply channels.
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1. A pump control system used for pressurized water supply systems and provided with
primary supply pumps that supply chilled water or hot water from a return header to a primary supply header via refrigerators, heat pump chillers, or boilers, secondary supply pumps that are provided with inverters and supply chilled water or hot water from said primary supply header to a secondary supply header, a flow sensor that measures the flow from said secondary supply header to said return header, and a pressure difference sensor that measures the pressure difference between said secondary supply header and said return header, further comprising a secondary pump controller that determines a supply pressure from the secondary supply pumps using a flow rate measured with said flow sensor, carries out prescribed calculations based on this supply pressure and a discharge pressure measured with said pressure difference sensor, and outputs a control signal corresponding to the calculated result to said inverters.
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4. A pump control system used for pressurized water supply systems and provided with
primary supply pumps that supply chilled water or hot water from a return header to a primary supply header via refrigerators, heat pump chillers, or boilers, secondary supply pumps that are provided with inverters and supply chilled water or hot water from said primary supply header to a secondary supply header, a flow sensor that measures the flow from said secondary supply header to said return header, and a pressure difference sensor that measures the pressure difference between said secondary supply header and said return header, further comprising a secondary pump controller that contains an input-output processing portion which determines said inverter rotational frequency by performing calculations, based on said discharge pressure measured with said pressure difference sensor and a supply pressure calculated by selecting the fixed resistance K0 of the entire system, pipeline constants K1 and K2, and a constant n determined using the formula of head of friction loss using a signal obtained by the measurement with said flow sensor and an external input signal or using tables in the data storage portion.
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15. A pump control system used for air-conditioning systems and provided with
primary supply pumps that supply chilled water or hot water from a return header to a primary supply header via refrigerators, heat pump chillers, or boilers, secondary supply pumps that are provided with inverters and supply chilled water or hot water from said primary supply header to a secondary supply header, two-way type control valves provided between said secondary supply header and said return header, and a pressure difference sensor that measures the differential pressure of chilled water or hot water between said secondary supply header and said return header, further comprising a secondary pump controller containing an input-output processing portion that controls the rotational frequency of said inverters using an open rate signal from said two-way type control valves and a signal obtained by measurement with said pressure difference sensor.
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