District heat supply plant controller

• US 6,223,101 B1
• Filed: 06/29/1998
• Issued: 04/24/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/1997
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Sakamoto, Yoshiyuki, Kobayashi, Shuichiro, Shinozaki, Tsutomu
• Primary Examiner(s): Lee, Thomas
• Assistant Examiner(s): Patel, Nitin
• Application Number:
  US09/106,117
• Time in Patent Office: 1,030 Days
• Field of Search: 700/44, 700/45, 700/47, 700/48, 700/49, 706/12, 706/13, 706/906, 706/907, 706/10
• US Class Current: 700/276
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 13/0265 the criterion being a learning criterion

Abstract

A district heat supply plant controller for efficiently and flexibly obtaining operation plans of a district heat supply plant includes a plant operation planning device responsive to a predicted thermal load value for a current day predicted by a thermal load prediction device to determine an operation plan of the district heat supply plant. The plant operation planning device has a genetic algorithm executing device applying genetic algorithms onto an individual having rows of genes representing ON/OFF states in each time unit by 1/0 for each of the heat source devices. In the plant operation planning device, a mathematical programming executing device 4 uses an operation plan obtained by the genetic algorithm executing device 3 as its initial value to determine the operation plan of the district heat supply plant 20.

Claims

1. A district heat supply plant controller for controlling operation of a district heat supply plant having a plurality of heat source devices, comprising:

storage means for storing past actual thermal load values of said district heat supply plant;

prediction means for predicting a thermal load value of a current day with reference to the past actual thermal load values stored in said storage means;

planning means for determining an operation plan of said district heat supply plant on the basis of said thermal load value of the current day predicted by said prediction means, said planning means including genetic algorithm executing means for determining an operation plan of said district heat supply plant by genetic algorithms minimizing objective functions about operation of said heat source devices and for applying genetic algorithms to an individual having rows of genes representing activated and stopped states for each predetermined time unit for each of said heat source device, said planning means further including genetic modification means for selecting rows of genes not satisfying predetermined constraint conditions from said rows of genes manipulated by said genetic algorithm executing means and for modifying states of genes not satisfying the constraint conditions among those contained in the selected rows of genes; and

control means for controlling said heat source devices on the basis of the operation plan of said district heat supply plant determined by said planning means.

2. The district heat supply plant controller according to claim 1, wherein said genetic algorithm executing means of said planning means divides an input and output characteristic of a heat source device having a variable capacity output characteristic among said heat source devices into a plurality of stages, virtually considers a plurality of virtual heat source devices corresponding to each of said divisional stages of the input and output characteristic, and applies genetic algorithms to an individual having said rows of genes for each of said virtual heat source devices.

3. The district heat supply plant controller according to claim 1 or 2, wherein said planning means further includes genetic manipulation designating means for designating an additional manipulation process for said rows of genes manipulated by said genetic algorithm executing means.

7. The district heat supply plant controller according to any one of claims 1 through 2 or 5 through 7, wherein said planning means determines said operation plan of said district heat supply plant for each predetermined divisional time zone made by dividing one day into a plurality of time zones.

4. A district heat supply plant controller for controlling operation of a district heat supply plant having a plurality of heat source devices, comprising:

storage means for storing past actual thermal load values of said district heat supply plant;

prediction means for predicting a thermal load value of a current day with reference to the past actual thermal load values stored in said storage means;

planning means for determining an operation plan of said district heat supply plant on the basis of said thermal load value of the current day predicted by said prediction means, said planning means including genetic algorithm executing means for determining an operation plan of said district heat supply plant by genetic algorithms minimizing objective functions about operation of said heat source devices, and mathematical programming executing means for determining an operation plan of said district heat supply plant by mathematical programming, said mathematical programming executing means using said operation plan determined by said genetic algorithm executing means as an initial value to determine said operation plan of said district heat supply plant; and

control means for controlling said heat source devices on the basis of the operation plan of said district heat supply plant determined by said planning means.

5. The district heat supply plant controller according to claim 4, wherein said planning means further includes operation selecting means for selecting one of said operation plan determined by said genetic algorithm executing means and said operation plan determined by said mathematical programming executing means by using said operation plan determined by said genetic algorithm executing means as the initial value thereof.

6. A district heat supply plant controller for controlling operation of a district heat supply plant having a plurality of heat source devices, comprising:

storage means for storing past actual thermal load values of said district heat supply plant;

prediction means for predicting a thermal load value of a current day with reference to the past actual thermal load values stored in said storage means;

planning means for determining an operation plan of said district heat supply plant on the basis of said thermal load value of the current day predicted by said prediction means, said planning means including genetic algorithm executing means for determining an operation plan of said district heat supply plant by genetic algorithms minimizing objective functions about operation of said heat source devices, mathematical programming executing means for determining an operation plan of said district heat supply plant by mathematical programming, and selecting means for selecting one of said operation plan determined by said genetic algorithm executing means and said operation plan determined by said mathematical programming executing means; and

control means for controlling said heat source devices on the basis of the operation plan of said district heat supply plant determined by said planning means.