EP1344935A3 - A method and a system for controlling a plurality of compressors - Google Patents

A method and a system for controlling a plurality of compressors Download PDF

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EP1344935A3
EP1344935A3 EP03005703A EP03005703A EP1344935A3 EP 1344935 A3 EP1344935 A3 EP 1344935A3 EP 03005703 A EP03005703 A EP 03005703A EP 03005703 A EP03005703 A EP 03005703A EP 1344935 A3 EP1344935 A3 EP 1344935A3
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compressors
compressor
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fluid
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Süleyman Dag
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Intelligent Energy Networks AB
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F04—POSITIVE - DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS FOR LIQUIDS OR ELASTIC FLUIDS
    • F04C—ROTARY-PISTON, OR OSCILLATING-PISTON, POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; ROTARY-PISTON, OR OSCILLATING-PISTON, POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT PUMPS
    • F04C28/00—Control of, monitoring of, or safety arrangements for, pumps or pumping installations specially adapted for elastic fluids
    • F04C28/02—Control of, monitoring of, or safety arrangements for, pumps or pumping installations specially adapted for elastic fluids specially adapted for several pumps connected in series or in parallel
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F04—POSITIVE - DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS FOR LIQUIDS OR ELASTIC FLUIDS
    • F04B—POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS
    • F04B41/00—Pumping installations or systems specially adapted for elastic fluids
    • F04B41/06—Combinations of two or more pumps
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F04—POSITIVE - DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS FOR LIQUIDS OR ELASTIC FLUIDS
    • F04C—ROTARY-PISTON, OR OSCILLATING-PISTON, POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; ROTARY-PISTON, OR OSCILLATING-PISTON, POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT PUMPS
    • F04C23/00—Combinations of two or more pumps, each being of rotary-piston or oscillating-piston type, specially adapted for elastic fluids; Pumping installations specially adapted for elastic fluids; Multi-stage pumps specially adapted for elastic fluids
    • F04C23/001—Combinations of two or more pumps, each being of rotary-piston or oscillating-piston type, specially adapted for elastic fluids; Pumping installations specially adapted for elastic fluids; Multi-stage pumps specially adapted for elastic fluids of similar working principle
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F04—POSITIVE - DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS FOR LIQUIDS OR ELASTIC FLUIDS
    • F04C—ROTARY-PISTON, OR OSCILLATING-PISTON, POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; ROTARY-PISTON, OR OSCILLATING-PISTON, POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT PUMPS
    • F04C28/00—Control of, monitoring of, or safety arrangements for, pumps or pumping installations specially adapted for elastic fluids
    • F04C28/06—Control of, monitoring of, or safety arrangements for, pumps or pumping installations specially adapted for elastic fluids specially adapted for stopping, starting, idling or no-load operation
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F04—POSITIVE - DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS FOR LIQUIDS OR ELASTIC FLUIDS
    • F04D—NON-POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT PUMPS
    • F04D25/00—Pumping installations or systems
    • F04D25/16—Combinations of two or more pumps ; Producing two or more separate gas flows
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F04—POSITIVE - DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS FOR LIQUIDS OR ELASTIC FLUIDS
    • F04D—NON-POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT PUMPS
    • F04D27/00—Control, e.g. regulation, of pumps, pumping installations or pumping systems specially adapted for elastic fluids
    • F04D27/02—Surge control
    • F04D27/0269—Surge control by changing flow path between different stages or between a plurality of compressors; load distribution between compressors

Abstract

A device and a method for controlling a plurality of compressors (1-3) arranged for jointly producing a pressurized fluid, wherein each of the compressors comprises a valve (7-9), the position of the valve determining the size of the flow of the fluid and the compressor having at least three different states: a shut-off state in which the compressor has zero voltage and the valve is in a closed position, an unloaded state in which the compressor is under a voltage and the valve is in a closed position, and a loaded state in which the compressor is under a voltage and the valve is an at least partly open position. Information about each of the compressors regarding the power that the compressor consumes in the loaded and the unloaded states and which flow or flows that the compressor can deliver are stored. Information is received regarding the pressure of the fluid (P1-P4) and current valve positions for the compressors are received. The current need of fluid is estimated, based on the current valve positions of the compressors, the flow that the compressor can deliver and the pressure in the fluid. The valve positions of the compressors are adjusted with regard to the current need of fluid and the energy consumption of the compressors in a number of possible sets of valve positions, which meet the current need of fluid.
EP03005703A 2002-03-14 2003-03-13 A method and a system for controlling a plurality of compressors Withdrawn EP1344935A3 (en)

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SE0200752A SE521518C2 (en) 2002-03-14 2002-03-14 Method and system for controlling a number of compressors

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DE102008064490A1 (en) 2008-12-23 2010-06-24 Kaeser Kompressoren Gmbh Method for controlling a compressor system
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US4580947A (en) * 1984-01-11 1986-04-08 Hitachi, Ltd. Method of controlling operation of a plurality of compressors
JPS63239399A (en) * 1987-03-27 1988-10-05 Ishikawajima Harima Heavy Ind Co Ltd Parallel operation method and device for prural compressors
US5231846A (en) * 1993-01-26 1993-08-03 American Standard Inc. Method of compressor staging for multi-compressor multi-circuited refrigeration systems
EP0593225A1 (en) * 1992-10-13 1994-04-20 Ingersoll-Rand Company Method and apparatus for controlling a system of compressors to achieve load sharing
US6233954B1 (en) * 1999-04-28 2001-05-22 Ingersoll-Rand Company Method for controlling the operation of a compression system having a plurality of compressors

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US4580947A (en) * 1984-01-11 1986-04-08 Hitachi, Ltd. Method of controlling operation of a plurality of compressors
JPS63239399A (en) * 1987-03-27 1988-10-05 Ishikawajima Harima Heavy Ind Co Ltd Parallel operation method and device for prural compressors
EP0593225A1 (en) * 1992-10-13 1994-04-20 Ingersoll-Rand Company Method and apparatus for controlling a system of compressors to achieve load sharing
US5231846A (en) * 1993-01-26 1993-08-03 American Standard Inc. Method of compressor staging for multi-compressor multi-circuited refrigeration systems
US6233954B1 (en) * 1999-04-28 2001-05-22 Ingersoll-Rand Company Method for controlling the operation of a compression system having a plurality of compressors

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PATENT ABSTRACTS OF JAPAN vol. 013, no. 028 (M - 788) 23 January 1989 (1989-01-23) *

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