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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 2026
Filed:
Feb. 05, 2021
Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Zhijia Ren, Tokyo, JP;
Norio Aoyagi, Tokyo, JP;
Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A gas compression system that can continue control of the number of operated pieces of a compressor even when an abnormality has occurred and a control method thereof are provided. The gas compression system includes compressors, a number-of-pieces controller that executes master control to control the number of operated pieces of the compressor, and a communication network that connects the compressors and the number-of-pieces controller with each other in a mutually communicable manner. Each compressor includes a compressor main unit that compresses a gas and a controller that executes slave control to control the compressor main unit in response to a command from the number-of-pieces controller. The respective controllers are configured to determine whether an abnormality of the number-of-pieces controller or an abnormality of communication with the number-of-pieces controller has occurred on the basis of whether a safety notification from the number-of-pieces controller is received and transmit a master declaration.