EP4060250A1 - Cold heat source unit and refrigeration circuit device - Google Patents
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Abstract
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- The present disclosure relates to a cold source unit and a refrigeration cycle apparatus.
- In a conventional refrigerator or the like, for example, a large amount of liquid refrigerant in the unit may return into the accumulator upon start of operation after defrosting. At this time, a large amount of liquid refrigerant flows in an oil return circuit located in a lower portion of the accumulator, and an excessive amount of this liquid refrigerant may flow from the oil return circuit into the compressor, i.e., a liquid return phenomenon (hereinafter "liquid back") may occur. The liquid back during operation causes a pressure surge in the compressor, resulting a problem that the operating current for the compressor becomes overcurrent.
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Japanese Patent Laying-Open No. H06-034224 - PTL 1:
Japanese Patent Laying-Open No. H06-034224 - If the compressor is restarted with liquid refrigerant accumulated in the compressor due to the liquid back, increase of the load on a motor of the compressor for compressing the liquid may cause overcurrent to cause the compressor to be stopped temporarily. A technique disclosed in
Japanese Patent Laying-Open No. H06-034224 - The present disclosure is made to solve the problem as described above, and an object of the present disclosure is to provide a cold source unit and a refrigeration cycle apparatus that improve the probability of success of restart of the compressor when the compressor is stopped due to overcurrent.
- The present disclosure relates to a cold source unit connected to a load apparatus and serving as a component of a refrigeration cycle apparatus. The cold source unit includes a compressor, and a controller to control the compressor. When the controller detects overload on the compressor, the controller performs first start retry control of restarting the compressor after pausing the compressor for a first time period. When the number of times of performing of the first start retry control exceeds a first criterion value, the controller performs second start retry control of restarting the compressor after pausing the compressor for a second time period longer than the first time period.
- According to the present disclosure, when the compressor is not started successfully, the compressor is restarted after an increased waiting time, and therefore, liquid refrigerant in the compressor is discharged to improve the probability of success of the restart.
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Fig. 1 shows a refrigerant circuit of a refrigeration cycle apparatus 200 according to the present embodiment. -
Fig. 2 shows a relation between the pause time period of a compressor and the rate of change of the liquid amount in the compressor. -
Fig. 3 is a flowchart for illustrating control for performing compressor start retry. -
Fig. 4 is a flowchart for illustrating energization control for a heater when liquid discharge promotion control is started. - Embodiments of the present disclosure are hereinafter described in detail with reference to the drawings. In the following, a plurality of embodiments are described, and it is originally intended that characteristics described in connection with the embodiments each are combined as appropriate. In the drawings, the same or corresponding parts are denoted by the same reference characters, and a description thereof is not herein repeated. In the following drawings, the relation between components in terms of the size may be different from the actual one.
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Fig. 1 shows a refrigerant circuit of a refrigeration cycle apparatus 200 according to the present embodiment. As shown inFig. 1 , refrigeration cycle apparatus 200 includes acold source unit 100 and aload apparatus 110. "Cold source unit" may also be called "heat source unit." -
Load apparatus 110 includes anexpansion valve 3 and a first heat exchanger (hereinafter referred to as evaporator 4).Cold source unit 100 is connected to loadapparatus 110 and serves as a part of refrigeration cycle apparatus 200.Cold source unit 100 includes acompressor 1, a second heat exchanger (hereinafter referred to as condenser 2), aheater 40, and acontroller 30 to controlcompressor 1 andheater 40. -
Controller 30 includes a CPU (Central Processing Unit) 31, a memory 32 (ROM (Read Only Memory) and RAM (Random Access Memory)), and an input/output device (not shown) for allowing various signals to be input, for example.CPU 31 deploys a program stored in the ROM on the RAM for example and executes the program. The program stored in the ROM is a program in which a process procedure forcontroller 30 is specified. In accordance with the program,controller 30 controls each component ofcold source unit 100. This control is not limited to processing by software, but may be processing by dedicated hardware (electronic circuit). -
Compressor 1 is equipped with athermistor 5 that detects the suction temperature, athermistor 6 that detects the temperature of a lower portion of a housing shell ofcompressor 1 or the temperature of refrigeration oil remaining in the housing of compressor 1 (hereinafter referred to as "shell-bottom temperature"), and acurrent sensor 7 that detects overcurrent. - In refrigeration cycle apparatus 200,
compressor 1 compresses refrigerant gas into high-pressure gas, and the high-pressure gas refrigerant flows intocondenser 2. - In
condenser 2, heat is released from the refrigerant and the high-pressure gas refrigerant is condensed into high-pressure liquid refrigerant. The high-pressure liquid refrigerant flows intoexpansion valve 3. Inexpansion valve 3, the pressure of the high-pressure liquid refrigerant is reduced and the resultant low-pressure liquid refrigerant flows into evaporator 4. In evaporator 4, the liquid refrigerant is evaporated to absorb heat from the environment, i.e., cooling is done. The evaporated gas refrigerant returns intocompressor 1. Thus, a refrigerant circuit is completed. - According to the present embodiment,
compressor 1 is paused when overload is detected, and a sufficient pause time period is ensured to reduce the amount of liquid incompressor 1 and thereby suppress unsuccessful start when the start retry is made. For example, when overcurrent is detected bycurrent sensor 7,controller 30 detects that load oncompressor 1 is overload. - Specifically, when
controller 30 detects overload oncompressor 1,controller 30 performs first start retry control, i.e., restartscompressor 1 after pausingcompressor 1 for a first time period. When the number of times the first start retry control is performed exceeds a criterion value,controller 30 performs second start retry control, i.e., restartscompressor 1 after pausingcompressor 1 for a second time period longer than the first time period. The first time period can be 3 minutes and the second time period can be 30 minutes. The pause time period, however, is not limited to the above-specified ones. -
Fig. 2 shows a relation between the pause time period of the compressor and the rate of change of the liquid amount in the compressor. In consideration of the relation shown inFig. 2 and increase of the internal temperature of a refrigerator compartment resultant from pause of the compressor, the compressor pause time period per liquid discharge promotion control is determined. - If the compressor is paused with the inside of the refrigerator compartment cooled by normal operation, the time for which increase of the internal temperature of the refrigerator compartment is permissible is approximately 60 minutes. If, however, the liquid amount has been reduced enough, before 60 minutes elapse, to cause no overcurrent when
compressor 1 is started, the pause time period should be as short as possible. According to the present embodiment, therefore, the liquid discharge promotion control is performed up to twice, and the compressor pause time period per liquid discharge promotion control is set to 30 minutes. -
Fig. 3 is a flowchart for illustrating control for performing compressor start retry. Based on this flowchart, improvement to avoid unsuccessful start due to overcurrent abnormality is described. - In step S1, initially
controller 30 determines whether or not the start retry control in response to overcurrent has been performed five times. - When the start retry control has been performed five times in total (YES in S1), controller proceeds to step S10 to give a notification of stoppage due to abnormality, so as not to perform the start retry control any more. For example, a light-emitting diode is lit to enable users to identify stoppage due to abnormality.
- When the start retry control has not been performed five times in total (NO in S1),
controller 30 proceeds to step S2 to determine whether or not the start retry control has been performed three times in total. - When the start retry control has not been performed three times in total (NO in S2),
controller 30 proceeds to step S11 to perform normal start retry control for the compressor. In this case, for example, compressor restart is attempted by energizingcompressor 1 after keeping the compressor paused for three minutes. The period of three minutes is a time period determined for preventing repeated start and pause ofcompressor 1 in which the amount of liquid refrigerant is small. - In contrast, when the start retry control has been performed three times in total (YES in S2),
controller 30 proceeds to step S3. - As a rule, when the answer is YES in step S2, control is performed from step S5 in which start of
compressor 1 is delayed more than before. It should be noted that, in order to prevent malfunction due to failure to cool resultant from long-time pause ofcompressor 1, or in order to perform another control of higher priority, start ofcompressor 1 may be repeated up to five times as before, without performing the process from step S5, in some cases. This situation may occur in the following cases, for example. - Priority has to be given to cooling, because the internal temperature of the refrigerator compartment is a certain threshold or more due to defrosting, or because the refrigeration capacity of the cold source unit is insufficient, for example.
- No liquid back occurs.
- Oil-return control is started due to shortage of refrigeration oil in
compressor 1. - The pressure at the discharge side and the pressure at the suction side of
compressor 1 may be reversed to each other. - Malfunction occurs due to open- or short-circuit detected by a low-pressure sensor.
- For each of all these cases, a determination may be made as to whether or not such a condition occurs. According to the present embodiment, however, the determination in each of steps S3 and S4 is made before proceeding to step S5.
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controller 30 determines whether or not any one of the superheat of the sucked refrigerant (suction SH), the shell-bottom temperature, and the superheat of refrigeration oil remaining in the shell of compressor 1 (hereinafter "shell-bottom SH"), measured bythermistor 5 andthermistor 6, is kept lower than a reference value associated to each for a certain period of time (three minutes, for example). In this way,controller 30 determines whether or not the liquid back occurs. - The superheat (SH) is a temperature difference between the actually measured refrigerant temperature and the saturated gas temperature at a measured pressure.
- When the suction SH is kept lower by 10 K than a target value for three minutes, for example,
controller 30 detects occurrence of the liquid back. - When all the suction SH, the shell-bottom temperature, and the shell-bottom SH are not kept lower than the reference value for a certain period of time (NO in S3),
controller 30 performs the normal start retry control for the compressor in step S12. In this case, for example, compressor restart is attempted by energizingcompressor 1 after keeping the compressor paused for three minutes. - In contrast, when any of the suction SH, the shell-bottom temperature, and the shell-bottom SH is kept lower than the reference value for a certain period of time (YES in S3),
controller 30 proceeds to step S4. - In step S4,
controller 30 determines whether or not an evaporation temperature ET is lower than a target evaporation temperature ETm+10K (kelvin). When the difference between evaporation temperature ET and target evaporation temperature ETm is less than or equal to 10K, it is determined that the inside of the refrigerator compartment can be kept cooled even when the compressor is paused for some time. While evaporation temperature ET may be measured with a temperature sensor provided for evaporator 4, the temperature detected bythermistor 5 which detects the suction temperature may be used instead. - When ET < ETm+10K is not satisfied (NO in S4),
controller 30 performs the normal start retry control for the compressor in step S13. In this case, for example, compressor restart is attempted by energizingcompressor 1 after keeping the compressor paused for three minutes. This is for the following reason. If the internal temperature of the refrigerator compartment after defrosting is high, or if the internal temperature of the refrigerator compartment is high due to insufficient refrigeration capacity of the cold source unit to which a plurality of load units are connected, the pause time period of 30 minutes is too long. - When ET < ETm+10K is satisfied (YES in S4),
controller 30 starts, in step S5, the liquid discharge promotion control for delaying start ofcompressor 1. Then, measurement of the time from stoppage ofcompressor 1 is started. Such a measured time from the stoppage ofcompressor 1 to restart thereof is herein referred to as "delay time." In order to sufficiently reduce liquid refrigerant incompressor 1,controller 30 keeps stoppingcompressor 1 until the delay time reaches a second time period (30 minutes, for example). The second time period is set longer than the first time period (3 minutes, for example) that is the pause time period in steps S11, S12, and S13. At this time, the situation in which the liquid discharge promotion control is performed is determined by a user, and therefore, it is preferable to show "Lout" or the like on a liquid crystal display of a control panel mounted on the refrigeration apparatus. - In step S6, initially it is determined whether or not the delay time has reached the set time (30 minutes, for example). When the delay time has reached the set time (YES in S6), start retry for
compressor 1 is performed in step S14. - In contrast, when the delay time has not reached the set time (NO in S6), the process proceeds to step S7. In step S7, it is determined whether or not a request to start oil return control is made. The oil return control is requested when shortage of the refrigeration oil in
compressor 1 occurs, in order to prevent burning ofcompressor 1. - When a request to start the oil return control is made (YES in S7), start retry for
compressor 1 is performed in step S15. - In contrast, when the request to start the oil return control is not made (NO in S7), the process proceeds to step S8. In step S8, it is determined whether or not a request to start high-low pressure reverse prevention control is made. The high-low pressure reverse prevention control is requested when it is detected that the pressure at the suction port side of
compressor 1 is higher than the pressure at the discharge port side. - When the request to start the high-low pressure reverse prevention control is made (YES in S8), start retry for
compressor 1 is performed in step S16. - In contrast, when the request to start the high-low pressure reverse prevention control is not made (NO in S8), the process proceeds to step S9. In step S9, it is determined whether or not evaporation temperature ET is kept higher than or equal to target evaporation temperature ETm+10K (kelvin) for three minutes.
- When the relation: Et ≥ ETm+10K is kept satisfied for three minutes (YES in S9), start retry for
compressor 1 is performed in step S17, since increase of the internal temperature of the refrigerator compartment is not permissible. Because evaporation temperature Et may momentarily exceed the threshold, the fact that the above relation is kept satisfied for three minutes is used as a condition for stopping delay of start. - When Et ≥ target evaporation temperature ETm+10K (kelvin) is kept satisfied for less than three minutes (NO in S9), the process returns to step S6 and measurement of the delay time to the start of the compressor start retry is continued.
- When the start retry for
compressor 1 is performed in any of steps S1 to S17,controller 30 determines in step S18 whether or not the start ofcompressor 1 has normally been completed. - For example, when overcurrent is detected again, it is determined that the start of
compressor 1 is not in success (NO in S18), energization of the motor ofcompressor 1 is stopped, andcompressor 1 is thus stopped. In this case, in step S19,controller 30 increments, by one, the number of times the start retry is performed, and performs the process again from step S1. - When the start retry fails to start the compressor after the liquid refrigerant discharge promotion control is performed twice, operation is stopped in step S10. At this time, it is determined that the cause of detection of overcurrent abnormality is not liquid back.
- When overcurrent is not detected, it is determined that
compressor 1 is started successfully (YES in S18), and the count of the start retry is initialized in step S20, and the process returns to the control routine for the normal operating state ofnormal compressor 1 in step S21. - When the liquid discharge promotion control is started in step S5,
heater 40 may additionally be used for heating. When the outside air temperature is high, however,heater 40 may be stopped for saving energy. -
Fig. 4 is a flowchart for illustrating energization control for the heater when the liquid discharge promotion control is started. Referring toFig. 4 ,controller 30 obtains an outside air temperature Ta from an outsideair temperature sensor 8 and determines whether or not outside air temperature Ta is lower than a first threshold temperature Tth in step S51. - When Ta < Tth is satisfied (YES in S51),
controller 30 causesheater 40 to be energized to heat the liquid refrigerant incompressor 1 byheater 40 for a delay time of 30 minutes. In contrast, when Ta <Tth is not satisfied (NO in S51),controller 30 does not causeheater 40 to be energized, and waits until the liquid refrigerant incompressor 1 is warmed up by the outside air temperature while the heater is off in the delay time of 30 minutes. - In this way, whether to perform heating by the heater is determined depending on the outside air temperature so as not to heat the refrigerant more than necessary, and accordingly the power consumption can be reduced.
- As seen from the foregoing, the refrigeration cycle apparatus according to the present embodiment sets the pause time period of
compressor 1 for the fourth and subsequent start retries longer than the pause time period for the first start retry. Thus, even when the liquid amount incompressor 1 is increased due to the liquid back, the liquid refrigerant incompressor 1 can be heated byheater 40 or by the outside air temperature, and discharged sufficiently fromcompressor 1. In this way, the liquid amount incompressor 1 can be reduced to suppress unsuccessful start due to overcurrent abnormality at the time of the start retry. - Finally, the present embodiment is summarized with reference again to the drawings.
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Fig. 1 , the present embodiment relates tocold source unit 100 connected to loadapparatus 110 and serving as a component of refrigeration cycle apparatus 200.Cold source unit 100 includescompressor 1 andcontroller 30 to controlcompressor 1. Whencontroller 30 detects overload oncompressor 1,controller 30 performs first start retry control of restartingcompressor 1 after pausingcompressor 1 for a first time period. When the number of times the first start retry control is performed exceeds a first criterion value,controller 30 performs second start retry control of restartingcompressor 1 after pausingcompressor 1 for a second time period longer than the first time period. - Preferably, the second time period is a time period required for the amount of liquid in
compressor 1 to be reduced enough to enablecompressor 1 to be restarted. - Accordingly, when the second start retry control is performed, the amount of liquid refrigerant in
compressor 1 is expected to be smaller than that when the first start retry control is performed, and therefore, overload oncompressor 1 is removed to increase the possibility of success of restart ofcompressor 1. - Preferably,
cold source unit 100 further includesheater 40 to heat liquid refrigerant incompressor 1. Whencontroller 30 performs the second start retry control,controller 30 causes the liquid refrigerant to be heated byheater 40. - Thus, when the second retry control is performed, the amount of liquid in
compressor 1 is expected to be reduced by further promotion of evaporation of the liquid refrigerant incompressor 1 byheater 40, and therefore, the overload oncompressor 1 when started is removed to further increase the possibility of success of restart ofcompressor 1. - More preferably, as shown in
Fig. 4 , when outside air temperature Ta is less than or equal to first threshold temperature Tth,controller 30 performs the second start retry control while causing the liquid refrigerant to be heated byheater 40. When outside air temperature Ta is more than first threshold temperature Tth,controller 30 performs the second start retry control while stopping heating of the liquid refrigerant byheater 40. - Thus, when outside air temperature Ta is high and accordingly the amount of liquid refrigerant in
compressor 1 is reduced within the waiting time corresponding to the second time period, without requiring heating byheater 40,heater 40 is not energized and the power consumption can therefore be reduced. - Preferably, as shown in step S4 in
Fig. 3 , when a difference between refrigerant evaporation temperature ET and target refrigerant evaporation temperature ETm is less than a second threshold temperature (10 K for example),controller 30 performs the first start retry control. - Thus, when the internal temperature of the refrigerator compartment is high after defrosting or the refrigeration capacity of the cold source unit is insufficient to cause evaporation temperature ET to be higher than target evaporation temperature ETm to some extent, further increase of the internal temperature of the refrigerator compartment resultant from the start time delay can be avoided.
- Preferably, as shown in step S3 in
Fig. 3 , when liquid refrigerant is not sucked intocompressor 1,controller 30 still performs the first start retry control regardless of that the number of times the first start retry control is performed exceeds the first criterion value (three, for example).Controller 30 determines whether or not the liquid refrigerant is sucked intocompressor 1, based on at least one of superheat of refrigerant sucked intocompressor 1, shell-bottom temperature ofcompressor 1, and superheat of refrigerant incompressor 1. - When no liquid back occurs, overload is not removed even when start of
compressor 1 is delayed, and therefore, increase of the internal temperature of the refrigerator compartment due to delay of start ofcompressor 1 can thus be avoided. - Preferably, when
controller 30 is unsuccessful in startingcompressor 1 by the second start retry control,controller 30 repeats the second start retry control. When the number of times the second start retry control is performed exceeds a second criterion value,controller 30sets compressor 1 in a paused state. The first criterion value is 60% to a sum of the first criterion value and the second criterion value. - Specifically, according to the flowchart in
Fig. 3 , the first retry control is performed three times, and then the retry control is performed twice. When start ofcompressor 1 is still unsuccessful regardless of this,controller 30sets compressor 1 in the paused state. As seen from this, the first criterion value is 3, the second criterion value is 2, and the first criterion value is 60% to the sum of the first criterion value and the second criterion value. The maximum effect of liquid discharge is expected to be derived from a pause of 60 minutes (30 min × 2 times) in total, and therefore, liquid discharge is done when the start retry is done more than three times out of five times. - It should be construed that the embodiments disclosed herein are given by way of illustration in all respects, not by way of limitation. It is intended that the scope of the present invention is defined by claims, not by the above description of the embodiments, and encompasses all modifications and variations equivalent in meaning and scope to the claims.
- 1 compressor; 2 condenser; 3 expansion valve; 4 evaporator; 5, 6 thermistor; 7 current sensor; 8 outside air temperature sensor; 30 controller; 31 CPU; 32 memory; 40 heater; 100 cold source unit; 110 load apparatus; 200 refrigeration cycle apparatus
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- A cold source unit connected to a load apparatus and serving as a component of a refrigeration cycle apparatus, the cold source unit comprising:a compressor; anda controller to control the compressor, whereinwhen the controller detects overload on the compressor, the controller performs first start retry control of restarting the compressor after pausing the compressor for a first time period, andwhen the number of times of performing of the first start retry control exceeds a first criterion value, the controller performs second start retry control of restarting the compressor after pausing the compressor for a second time period longer than the first time period.
- The cold source unit according to claim 1, further comprising a heating apparatus to heat liquid refrigerant in the compressor, wherein
when the controller performs the second start retry control, the controller causes the liquid refrigerant to be heated by the heating apparatus. - The cold source unit according to claim 2, whereinwhen an outside air temperature is less than or equal to a first threshold temperature, the controller performs the second start retry control while causing the liquid refrigerant to be heated by the heating apparatus, andwhen the outside air temperature is more than the first threshold temperature, the controller performs the second start retry control while stopping heating of the liquid refrigerant by the heating apparatus.
- The cold source unit according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein when a difference between a refrigerant evaporation temperature and a target refrigerant evaporation temperature is less than a second threshold temperature, the controller performs the first start retry control.
- The cold source unit according to claim 1, whereinwhen liquid refrigerant is not sucked into the compressor, the controller still performs the first start retry control even if the number of times of performing of the first start retry control exceeds the first criterion value, andthe controller determines whether or not the liquid refrigerant is sucked into the compressor, based on at least one of superheat of refrigerant sucked into the compressor, shell-bottom temperature of the compressor, and superheat of refrigerant in the compressor.
- The cold source unit according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the second time period is a time period required for a liquid amount in the compressor to be reduced enough to enable the compressor to be restarted.
- The cold source unit according to any one of claims 1 to 5, whereinwhen the controller is unsuccessful in starting the compressor by the second start retry control, the controller repeats the second start retry control,when the number of times of performing of the second start retry control exceeds a second criterion value, the controller sets the compressor in a paused state, andthe first criterion value is 60% to a sum of the first criterion value and the second criterion value.
- A refrigeration cycle apparatus comprising the cold source unit according to any one of claims 1 to 7, and the load apparatus.
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