Research on energy-saving optimization method for central air conditioning system based on multi-strategy improved sparrow search algorithm

Abstract

Aiming at the problem of high energy consumption caused by the nonlinear, strong coupling, and large hysteresis characteristics of central air conditioning (CAC) system, an energy-saving optimization method based on WTD–CNN–LSTM and multi-strategy improved sparrow search algorithm (MISSA) is proposed, which works to minimize the total energy consumption during the operation of the CAC system. Firstly, minimize the sum of energy consumption of chillers, freezing pumps, cooling pumps, and cooling towers as the objective function, and use the range of operating parameters of each equipment as the basic constraint conditions to establish an energy-saving optimization model for the CAC system. Then, WTD–CNN–-LSTM is used to predict the future cooling load, and the predicted results are used as key constraint condition to achieve on-demand cooling. Finally, MISSA is proposed to improve the initialization, update and convergence stages of the CAC system operation parameter optimization process, accurately obtaining the optimal operating parameters. Compared with manual experience, MISSA reduces energy consumption by 15.32 % and improves energy efficiency ratio by 20.76 %. Meanwhile, compared with other optimization algorithms, MISSA reduces energy consumption by 4.85–13.26 % and improves energy efficiency ratio by 6.53–16.33 % after optimizing the CAC system. The experiment verifies that MISSA is more energy efficient when applied to the CAC system and has the advantages of accuracy, fast convergence, strong global search capability, and the ability to jump out of local optimization.