Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Thermal Systems, Ltd.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Limited

Yoshie Togano

Kenji Ueda

Naoya Miyoshi

Yasushi Hasegawa

Minoru Matsuo

Tatsuo Ishiguro

Taichi Yoshii

Yoshiaki Ito

Koki Tateishi

Satoshi Nikaido

Masahiko Nagai

Noriyuki Matsukura

Nobuki Oka

Ryosuke Suemitsu

Ryo Kamito

Masanobu Sakai

Kazuki Wajima

Norihisa Horaguchi

Wenping Wu

An a purge device that includes an air purge pipe connected to a condenser and configured to extract a mixed gas containing a refrigerant gas and air from the condenser; a separation film provided to the air purge pipe and configured to separate, by a pressure difference, air from the mixed gas extracted by the air purge pipe; an exhaust pipe configured to externally guide a gas containing air separated by the separation film; a first valve provided to the exhaust pipe; a vacuum pump provided downstream of the first valve in the exhaust pipe and configured to externally discharge a gas present inside the exhaust pipe; and a control unit, the control unit activates the vacuum pump, opens the first valve, then closes the first valve to stop permeation of air caused by a pressure difference when detecting that a predetermined amount of air has permeated the separation film.

Air purge device

This refrigeration machine comprises a compressor that compresses a refrigerant, a condenser that condenses the refrigerant which has been compressed by the compressor, an expander that expands the refrigerant which has been condensed by the condenser, a liquid film type evaporator that evaporates the refrigerant which has been expanded by the expander, and an eductor that generates flow speed difference and pressure difference in the refrigerant which has been expanded by the expander and suctions refrigerant stored in the evaporator.

Refrigeration machine

In order to reduce the effect on a compressor caused by foaming in an oil tank, a control unit for controlling an oil pump starts the oil pump before a compressor is started (SA), starts the compressor (SA) when an oil supply differential pressure P satisfies a compressor startup condition during a reference time Tas from the starting of the oil pump ('Yes' in SA), and extends the operation of the oil pump for a prescribed time without starting the compressor (Step SA) when the compressor startup condition is not satisfied ('No' in SA).

Turbo refrigerator and startup control method therefor

A refrigeration machine control device according to an embodiment of the present invention serves to control a turbo refrigeration machine and is equipped with a pressure reduction rate identification unit for identifying a pressure reduction rate at which foaming does not occur in an oil tank, and a pressure adjustment unit for adjusting the pressure of an evaporator on the basis of the identified pressure reduction rate. The pressure reduction rate identification unit is equipped with: a refrigerant precipitation gas volume calculation unit for calculating the volume of refrigerant gas precipitated from lubricating oil when the pressure is reduced at a prescribed pressure reduction rate; and a determination unit for determining whether or not foaming is permissible on the basis of a comparison between the calculated volume and the volume on the surface of the oil in the oil tank.

Refrigeration machine control device, turbo refrigeration machine, refrigeration machine control method, and program

A purging device that includes a purging pipe for purging a gas mixture containing a coolant and a non-condensable gas from a chiller; a purging tank; a cooling device that has a cooling heat-transfer surface provided therein which condenses the coolant in the gas mixture and is oriented in the height direction inside the purging tank; a drainage pipe for discharging the liquid coolant inside the purging tank to the chiller; an exhaust; a purging tank pressure sensor for measuring the pressure inside the purging tank; and a control device which detects that an increase in the level of the liquid coolant inside the purging tank has occurred when the measured value from the purging tank pressure sensor decreases, and thereafter, increases to a prescribed value or higher, when condensing the coolant by cooling the interior of the purging tank using the cooling device.

Purging device, chiller equipped with same, and method for controlling purging device

A machine quantity controlling device which controls a quantity of a heat source device to operate in a heat source system including a first heat source device and a second heat source device, the first heat source device being a waste heat recovery type absorption chiller, the second heat source device other than a waste heat recovery type absorption chiller, the machine quantity controlling device including an acquisition unit that obtains a waste heat utilization maximum load which is a maximum load when the first heat source device receives only supply of the waste heat; a determination unit that determines a predetermined load range from the waste heat utilization maximum load to be a first optimal load range as an optimal load range of the first heat source device; and a machine quantity control unit that controls a quantity of the second heat source device to operate so that the sum of a total of minimum values of the optimal load range of the first heat source device to operate and a total of minimum values of a second optimal load range of the second heat source device to operate is smaller than or equal to a load required for the heat source system, and the sum of a total of maximum values of a first optimal load range and a total of maximum values of the second optimal load range is equal to or greater than the load required for the heat source system, the second optimal load range being an optimal load range of the second heat source device to operate.

Machine quantity controlling device, energy supplying system, machine quantity controlling method, and program

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

A calculating sectioncalculates a target COP that is a maximum COP that the centrifugal chiller can achieve using an arithmetic expression in which an actual device loss is given as a correction term to an expression that represents a COP characteristic under an ideal lossless environment. Since the arithmetic expression for calculating the target COP includes the heat exchange loss of the evaporator as a correction term, the heat exchange loss being calculated using a function having a load factor as a parameter, the heat exchange loss of the evaporator is reflected in the target COP.

Apparatus and method for evaluating performance of centrifugal chiller

A heat source system has a plurality of heat sources that can be utilized therein. The plurality of heat sources include unused heat such as sewage and wastewater generated in a facility in which an external load that receives a supply of heating medium heated or cooled by using the heat sources is installed. A system control device () of the heat source system determines potential temperatures and amounts of potential heat of the individual heat sources; and selects heat sources based on the potential temperatures and the amounts of potential heat.

Heat-source selecting device for heat source system, method thereof, and heat source system

An object is to sequentially calculate planned COPs. Provided is a performance evaluation device for a variable-speed centrifugal chiller that includes a data acquisition unit that acquires operating data of the variable-speed centrifugal chiller as input data; a storage unit that stores a first arithmetic equation derived on the basis of mechanical characteristics of the chiller and used for calculating a relative load factor that relatively expresses a relationship between a current load factor at a current coolant inlet temperature and a predetermined load factor at a predetermined coolant inlet temperature set as a reference operating point, a second arithmetic equation that expresses a relationship between the relative load factor and a correction coefficient, and a third arithmetic equation used for calculating a planned COP by using the correction coefficient to correct a COP calculation equation derived from a reverse Carnot cycle; and an arithmetic unit that calculates the planned COP under current operating conditions by using the operating data acquired by the data acquisition unit in the first, second, and third arithmetic equations stored in the storage unit.

Performance evaluation device for variable-speed centrifugal chiller

Design COP is iteratively computed. Provided is a centrifugal chiller performance evaluation system including a data acquisition section for acquiring operating data from a centrifugal chiller as input data; a storage section storing a design COP estimation formula obtained by adding correction values corresponding to losses occurring in an actual environment to a computational formula for ideal actual-machine COP expressed using COP characteristics of a reverse Carnot cycle; and a computing section for estimating a design COP at a current operating point using the operating data acquired by the data acquisition section and the design COP estimation formula stored in the storage section. The correction values include a first correction value calculated from a first computational formula including the load factor of the centrifugal chiller as a variable and a second correction value calculated from a second computational formula including a difference between cooling water outlet temperature and chilled water outlet temperature as a variable. The second correction value contains an offset from the first correction value depending on cooling water inlet temperature.

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Yoshie Togano