Abstract
Chilled water systems have large time delays and large inertia, and the traditional PID controller has a poor control effect. In this paper, an improved sparrow search algorithm is proposed to optimize the control of chilled water systems. Firstly, the random walk strategy was used to randomly perturb the sparrows to improve the searching ability of the sparrows. Then, a Gauss mutation was added in the iteration process of sparrows to enhance the local search ability. Finally, the values of the PID parameters as obtained by the above methods were substituted into the controller for simulation. The simulation results show that the method proposed in this paper improves the search accuracy of the sparrow search algorithm and effectively solves the problems of large time delays and large inertia in the chilled water system. The method in this paper took the least amount of time for the system to reach the steady state at only 12.75 s. The control effect of the proposed method was also better than that of the improved ant colony optimization algorithm. The rise time was 2.713 s, and the adjustment time was 4.95 s.
Highlights
A chilled water system is the main part of an HVAC system
In a chilled water system, energy efficiency can be achieved by changing the equipment, control strategy, pipeline layout [4] or temperature control [5] or using other methods
Based on the above description, in order to solve the disadvantages of the sparrow search algorithm, this paper proposes an improved sparrow search algorithm and used it to optimize the control of a chilled water system
Summary
A chilled water system is the main part of an HVAC system. It consumes a significant amount of energy and has an important influence on the refrigeration effect [1]. The energy consumption of a chilled water system comprises about 30% of the energy consumption of air conditioning [2,3]. In a chilled water system, energy efficiency can be achieved by changing the equipment, control strategy, pipeline layout [4] or temperature control [5] or using other methods. A chilled water system is time-varying and has a time delay [6]. A chilled water system with a better control effect would be conducive to creating energysaving air conditioning systems [7].
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