Exergy based evaluation of an infrastructure
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1. A method of evaluating an infrastructure having a plurality of components based upon exergy loss values, said method comprising:
- aggregating exergy loss values of the components;
determining whether the aggregated exergy loss values exceed target exergy loss values;
in response to the aggregated exergy loss values falling below the target exergy loss values, determining whether historical exergy loss values indicate a trend to remain below the target exergy loss values; and
in response to the historical exergy loss values trending to go above the target exergy loss values, determining whether the trend projects that the exergy loss values will exceed the target exergy loss values within a predefined time period.
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Abstract
In a method of evaluating an infrastructure having a plurality of components based upon exergy loss values, exergy loss values of the components are aggregated. In addition, at least one of the components in the infrastructure is controlled based upon the aggregated exergy loss values.
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1. A method of evaluating an infrastructure having a plurality of components based upon exergy loss values, said method comprising:
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aggregating exergy loss values of the components; determining whether the aggregated exergy loss values exceed target exergy loss values; in response to the aggregated exergy loss values falling below the target exergy loss values, determining whether historical exergy loss values indicate a trend to remain below the target exergy loss values; and in response to the historical exergy loss values trending to go above the target exergy loss values, determining whether the trend projects that the exergy loss values will exceed the target exergy loss values within a predefined time period. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A control apparatus for controlling an infrastructure based upon exergy loss values, said control apparatus comprising:
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a processor; and a memory storing machine readable instructions to cause the processor to; aggregate exergy loss values of components in the infrastructure, wherein to aggregate the exergy loss values, the machine readable instructions cause the processor to; generate a first representation of each of a plurality of different levels of components, wherein the first representations comprise target exergy loss values of the levels of the plurality of different levels of components; generate second representations of the components within each of the plurality of different levels, wherein the second representations comprise target exergy loss values of the components within each of the plurality of levels; and control at least one of the components based upon the aggregated exergy loss values. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium on which is embedded one or more computer programs that are to implement a method of evaluating a system having a plurality of components based upon exergy loss values, said one or more computer programs comprising a set of instructions that when executed by a processor cause the processor to:
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aggregate exergy loss values of the components in the system; determine whether the aggregated exergy loss values exceed target exergy loss values; in response to the aggregated exergy loss values falling below the target exergy loss values, determine whether historical exergy loss values indicate a trend to remain below the target exergy loss values; and in response to the historical exergy loss values trending to go above the target exergy loss values, determine whether the trend projects that the exergy loss values will exceed the target exergy loss values within a predefined time period. - View Dependent Claims (19)
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