System and method of controlling environmental conditioning equipment in an enclosure
First Claim
1. A system for controlling environmental conditioning equipment for an enclosure or a set of enclosures, the system comprising:
- a computer operable to calculate in an anticipated manner, by simulation, at least one parameter selected from among the temperature and the chemical composition of the enclosure or set of enclosures, the energy consumption of the environmental conditioning equipment and the cost price of the consumed energy, forecast over a given time period, according to an explicit calculation formula associated with at least one command sequence sent to the environmental conditioning equipment during this time period;
the computer operable to perform this calculation by simulation for a randomly large number of explicit calculation formulas over a given time period; and
the computer operable to select from among the simulated calculation formulas the calculation formula, called optimum calculation formula, which respects the predefined constraints of temperature and chemical composition, and corresponds to the minimisation of a cost function relating to the energy cost price.
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Abstract
The invention relates to a system and device for controlling air-conditioning equipment, in particular to a method for controlling air-conditioning equipment in a chamber or the assembly of chambers consisting in pre-calculating at least one parameter selected between the temperature, chemical composition of the chamber or the assembly of chambers, the energy consumption of air-conditioning equipment and the energy production cost for a given time range by simulation carried out for an arbitrarily large number of explicit calculation formulae for a given time range and in selecting between said formulae the formulae called optimal explicit calculation formulae which meet predefined temperature and chemical composition restrictions and correspond to the minimisation of a cost function related to said energy production cost.
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26 Claims
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1. A system for controlling environmental conditioning equipment for an enclosure or a set of enclosures, the system comprising:
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a computer operable to calculate in an anticipated manner, by simulation, at least one parameter selected from among the temperature and the chemical composition of the enclosure or set of enclosures, the energy consumption of the environmental conditioning equipment and the cost price of the consumed energy, forecast over a given time period, according to an explicit calculation formula associated with at least one command sequence sent to the environmental conditioning equipment during this time period;
the computer operable to perform this calculation by simulation for a randomly large number of explicit calculation formulas over a given time period; and
the computer operable to select from among the simulated calculation formulas the calculation formula, called optimum calculation formula, which respects the predefined constraints of temperature and chemical composition, and corresponds to the minimisation of a cost function relating to the energy cost price. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. A method of controlling environmental conditioning equipment for an enclosure or a set of enclosures, the method comprising:
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calculating in an anticipated manner, by simulation, at least one parameter selected from among the temperature and the chemical composition of the enclosure or set of enclosures, the energy consumption of the environmental conditioning equipment and the cost price of the consumed energy, forecast over a given time period, according to explicit calculation formulas during this time period, the calculation being performed by simulation for a randomly large number of explicit calculation formulas over a given time period; and
selecting from among said explicit calculation formulas the explicit calculation formulas, called optimum explicit calculation formulas, which respect the predefined constraints of temperature and chemical composition, and correspond to the minimisation of a cost function related to the energy cost price. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24)
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25. A computer program stored in memory, the program comprising:
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a first set of instructions operable to obtain weather forecasts and energy prices;
a second set of instructions operable to acquire data relating to at least one enclosure;
a third set of instructions operable to determine energy consumption of environmental conditioning equipment associated with the enclosure;
a fourth set of instructions operable to calculate an anticipated amount of energy production needed; and
a fifth set of instructions optimizing, through automatic simulations, energy consumption for the environmental conditioning equipment. - View Dependent Claims (26)
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