Method of improving air cooled packaged units performance for multi-packaged-units installations
AssigneeTrane International Inc.
InventorsWilliam B. Fox, Gang Wang, John S. Hausmann, Wei Wei Liang Sun
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Abstract
A heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and refrigeration (HVACR) system includes an array of packaged units; and a controller to obtain an operating condition of the array of packaged units, derive the operating condition to construct an operating pattern, select one or more packaged units to be adjusted to increase efficiency of the array of packaged units based on the operating pattern, and to adjust operation of the one or more packaged units selected by the controller.
Claims20
A heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and refrigeration HVACR) system, comprising:
- an array of packaged units, the packaged units being outdoor units;
- and
- a controller configured to:
- obtain an operating condition of the array of packaged units,
- derive an operating pattern from the operating condition, the operating pattern including a heat map,
- select one or more packaged units to be adjusted to increase efficiency of the array of packaged units based on the operating pattern, and
- adjust operation of the one or more packaged units selected by the controller,
- wherein the operating condition includes a shape of the array, a size of the array, a spacing between the packaged units, and an orientation of the array.
A method of operating a heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and refrigeration (HVACR) system, comprising:
- obtaining an operating condition of an array of packaged units, the packaged units being outdoor units;
- deriving an operating pattern from the operating condition, the operating pattern including a heat map;
- determining one or more packaged units in the array of packaged units to be adjusted to increase efficiency based on the operating pattern;
- and
- adjusting operation of the one or more packaged units selected by the controller,
- wherein the operating condition includes a shape of the array, a size of the array, a spacing between the packaged units, and an orientation of the array.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.