QUALIFICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CHILLED WATER PLANT OPERATIONS
First Claim
1. A computer program product fixed in a tangible medium for determining one or more effects of changes to a chilled water plant comprising:
- machine readable code fixed on the tangible medium, the machine readable code comprising one or more instructions for;
receiving specification data for one or more components of a chilled water plant;
receiving load data indicating the load on the one or more components for one or more periods of time;
determining one or more summarized load values from the load data for the one or more periods of time;
receiving representative log data from one or more logs of the chilled water plant, wherein the representative log data has an attribute of being log data from the one or more logs having a load value closest to at least one of the one or more summarized load values; and
determining an idealized power utilization for the chilled water plant from the specification data and the representative log data.
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Abstract
A qualification system for determining the effects of one or more upgrades or modifications to a chilled water plant is disclosed herein. The qualification system my collect various data from operating logs of a chilled water plant. The data may be collected in stages, where at least one first stage may be used to collect data used to identify representative log data. The representative log data may then be used to perform an accurate analysis to determine the effects of one or more upgrades or modifications. In this manner, the qualification system provides accurate analysis while reducing data entry. In addition, the qualification system may accept varying amounts of data such as to reduce percentage error or the like in its analysis.
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1. A computer program product fixed in a tangible medium for determining one or more effects of changes to a chilled water plant comprising:
machine readable code fixed on the tangible medium, the machine readable code comprising one or more instructions for; receiving specification data for one or more components of a chilled water plant; receiving load data indicating the load on the one or more components for one or more periods of time; determining one or more summarized load values from the load data for the one or more periods of time; receiving representative log data from one or more logs of the chilled water plant, wherein the representative log data has an attribute of being log data from the one or more logs having a load value closest to at least one of the one or more summarized load values; and determining an idealized power utilization for the chilled water plant from the specification data and the representative log data. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A qualification system for determining one or more effects of one or more chilled water plant upgrades comprising:
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a processor; a memory device; and machine readable code executable by the processor and stored on the memory device; one or more first data input fields generated by executing the machine readable code, the one or more first data input fields configured to accept empirical log data for a chilled water plant for one or more periods of time; one or more first data processing units configured to generate at least one numerical value summarizing the empirical log data for the one or more periods of time, the one or more first data processing units implemented by the machine readable code; one or more second data input fields generated by executing the machine readable code, the one or more second data input fields configured to accept representative log data, the representative log data comprising data selected from one or more logs of the chilled water plant having a value closest to the at least one numerical value of at least one of the one or more periods of time; one or more third data input fields generated by executing the machine readable code, the one or more third data input fields configured to accept specification data for the chilled water plant; one or more second data processing units configured to calculate at least an idealized power utilization and a current power utilization for the chilled water plant with at least the specification data and the representative log data, the one or more second data processing units implemented by the machine readable code. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A method of determining the effect of one or more chilled water plant upgrades utilizing a qualification system comprising:
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inputting specification data for one or more components of a chilled water plant into one or more data inputs of the qualification system; inputting chiller load data indicating the load on one or more chillers for one or more periods of time into the one or more data inputs to calculate an average chiller load from the chiller load data for the one or more periods of time; identifying representative log data from one or more logs of the chilled water plant, wherein the representative log data has an attribute of being data from the one or more logs having a chiller load value closest to the average chiller load of at least one of the one or more periods of time; inputting the representative log data identified from the one or more logs of the chilled water plant into the one or more data inputs to calculate a power utilization of the chilled water plant from the representative log data; and initializing an analysis to compare the power utilization of the chilled water plant to an idealized power utilization of the chilled water plant, wherein the idealized power utilization is calculated with at least the specification data. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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