Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Thermal Systems, Ltd.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Limited

Central Glass Company, Limited

Noriyuki Matsukura

Kenji Ueda

Tatsuo Ishiguro

Katsuaki Morita

Satoshi Nikaido

Ryuji Ikeda

Hirotaka Oka

Sota Kogawa

Kenichi Nagahara

Yuki Nishizaki

Masumi Nomura

Yasushi Hasegawa

Naoya Miyoshi

Tatsuru Nagai

Naoki Kobayashi

Satoru Okamoto

Yoshio Nishiguchi

Yoshie Togano

Seiichi Okuda

Ryosuke Suemitsu

Akimasa Yokoyama

Norihisa Horaguchi

Hirotaka Tanimura

A monitoring device includes: an operation record acquisition unit configured to acquire operation records indicating a transition in a load factor or a load change factor with respect to operation time leading up to failure in failure cases; a threshold setting unit configured to set a threshold to be contrasted with the load factor or the load change factor in the operation records of the failure cases; a wear rate acquisition unit configured to acquire a wear rate that is a value derived from a relation between the load factor or the load change factor and the threshold and indicates a degree of progress of wear of a device according to operation time; and a failure rate cumulative frequency acquisition unit configured to acquire a transition in a failure rate cumulative frequency of the failure cases with respect to the wear rate.

Monitoring device and monitoring method

An estimation device includes an observation system constraint determination unit configured to determine data within constraints that is data within a first constraint based on time series data of each observation value of a first observation value observed by a first observation system and a second observation value observed by a second observation system, a model estimation unit configured to estimate parameters of a plurality of models including an observation model that is a model of each of the observation systems and a physical model that is a model within an apparatus provided with each of the observation systems based on the data within constraints, and a consistency determination unit configured to determine consistency of the models based on a deviation between a first predicted observation value predicted from the second observation system based on the estimated parameters and the first observation value.

Estimation device and estimation method

An abnormality diagnosis device includes an abnormality determination unit configured to determine whether or not there is an abnormality with respect to a state quantity acquired from equipment and a cause estimation unit configured to estimate a cause of the abnormality in the equipment from a state quantity determined to be abnormal by the abnormality determination unit using a cause correspondence table in which a cause of an abnormal mode of the equipment identified in fault tree analysis is associated with the state quantity that is abnormal when the cause has occurred.

Abnormality diagnosis device and abnormality diagnosis method

The purpose of the present invention is to achieve stable operation when using a low pressure, low GWP refrigerant. In the present invention, a control device () is provided with an estimation unit (), a determination unit (), and an activation control unit (). The estimation unit () estimates the amount of air entering using a degree of influence of air entering, which represents the ease with which air enters determined by the structure of the chiller, and a variable obtained by a function including pressure as a parameter. The determination unit () determines whether a total value for the amount of air entering is greater than or equal to a preset tolerance value. The activation control unit () activates a bleed device when the total value of the amount of air entering is equal to or greater than the tolerance value.

Control device and control method for bleed device

An object of the present invention is to provide a refrigerant circulation device and method that can suppress acid generation caused by decomposition of a refrigerant containing an HFO or HCFO. The refrigerant circulation device has a compressor, a condenser, expansion valves and an evaporator connected by a main pipe to form a refrigerant circulation circuit through which a refrigerant is circulated, the refrigerant circulation circuit being filled with a refrigerant containing a hydrofluoroolefin or a hydrochlorofluoroolefin having a carbon-carbon double bond within the molecular structure, wherein the refrigerant circulation device includes a drive that drives the compressor via a speed increaser, and a drive cooling unit that cools the drive with the refrigerant condensed in the condenser, and a desiccant that can trap moisture is disposed in the evaporator or the drive cooling unit.

Refrigerant circulation device, refrigerant circulation method, refrigerant filling method, and method for operating refrigerant circulation device

This refrigerating machine is equipped with: a turbocompressor which compresses a refrigerant; a condenser which is equipped with one or more pipe groups configured from a plurality of heat transfer pipes through which cooling water flows, and condenses the refrigerant compressed by the turbocompressor; an expansion valve which causes the refrigerant condensed by the condenser to expand; an evaporator which causes the refrigerant expanded by the expansion valve to evaporate; a temperature sensor which detects cooling water exit temperature, which is the temperature of the cooling water flowing from at least one of the heat transfer pipes constituting the pipe group(s); and a control unit which determines, on the basis of the detection temperature of the temperature sensor, air bleeding start conditions for starting an air bleeding operation to bleed and discharge air to the outside.

Refrigerating machine and control method therefor

The purpose of the present invention is to install an economizer having a sufficient internal volume in a compact turbo refrigeration apparatus specifically using a low-pressure refrigerant, and reduce refrigerant pressure loss and enhance efficiency in the turbo refrigeration apparatus. The turbo refrigeration apparatus according to the present invention comprises: a turbo compressor which compresses a refrigerant; a condenser which condenses the compressed refrigerant; a control valve which causes the condensed refrigerant to expand; an evaporator which causes the expanded refrigerant to evaporate; and an economizer which is installed in such a manner as to be sandwiched between the condenser and the evaporator, and separates the refrigerant expanded by the control valve into gas and liquid. The economizer is installed adjacent to a curved wall, having a drum shell shape, of the condenser and/or the evaporator, the curved wall being shared with the structural wall of the economizer. The economizer has a height (H) greater than the maximum width (W) thereof when viewed in the longitudinal direction thereof.

Turbo refrigeration apparatus

The present invention has an object to suppress an overshoot in the outlet temperature of a heat medium. A heat source machine controlling apparatus includes a computing unit and a set temperature changing unit. The computing unit calculates a load change rate using a predetermined arithmetic expression. The set temperature changing unit determines whether or not the load change rate calculated by the computing unit exceeds a predetermined threshold value. In the case where the load change rate exceeds the predetermined threshold value, the set temperature changing unit changes a set chilled water outlet temperature so as to suppress a change in a chilled water outlet temperature. For example, in the case where the chilled water outlet temperature is on a falling trend, if the set chilled water outlet temperature is set to a relatively high value, the heat source machine load decreases, and the chilled water outlet temperature is controlled to coincide with the set chilled water outlet temperature after the change. Consequently, an overshoot can be suppressed.

Heat source machine and control method therefor

In a turbo chiller, pipe joint groups (to) provided to refrigerant cooling pipe systems (to) and lubricant pipe systems connected to a turbo compressor () and a motor (), as well as a joint group () of various replacement components () provided to the pipe systems, are intensively placed, and at least one refrigerant detection sensor () is arranged below the intensive placement region () of the joint groups (to) and at a pre-identified point at which a slight amount of refrigerant that leaks from each of the joint groups (to) and flows downward is distributed and pools at a high concentration, whereby the slight amount of refrigerant leakage can be detected by the refrigerant detection sensor ().

Simplified refrigeration leak detection structure for a turbo chiller

An object is to provide a turbo-refrigeration-unit control device capable of achieving stable operation and reducing the amount of refrigerant. Provided is a control device for controlling a turbo refrigeration unit that includes a centrifugal compressor, a first-non-refrigerant pump for supplying a first non-refrigerant, a condenser that performs heat exchange between the first non-refrigerant and a refrigerant, an expansion valve that expands the refrigerant, a second-non-refrigerant pump for supplying a second non-refrigerant, an evaporator that performs heat exchange between the second non-refrigerant and the refrigerant, a bypass circuit that is used to inject part of the refrigerant from a discharge port of the centrifugal compressor into a suction port of the centrifugal compressor, and a bypass-circuit control valve that controls the flow rate of the refrigerant.

Turbo refrigeration unit, control device therefor, and control method therefor

An oil separation device having an outer cylinder that extends in an axial direction; an inner cylinder that passes through the interior of the outer cylinder in the axial direction; a pair of end plates provided at both ends of the outer cylinder in the axial direction; an inlet port connected to the outer cylinder near one of the end plates and that introduces an oil-containing fluid discharged from a compressor into a space formed between the outer cylinder and the inner cylinder so as to swirl about the axis; an outlet port connected to the outer cylinder near the other end plate and that expels the fluid, from which the oil has been centrifugally separated, out of the space; and an oil discharge port, provided in the outer cylinder, for discharging the separated oil out of the space. A partition plate that extends over at least part of a cross-section perpendicular to the axial direction to partition the space in the axial direction is provided in the space.

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Noriyuki Matsukura