Multi-Zone Climate Priority Control for Peak Load Conditioning
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing climate control systems often oversize equipment to handle peak loads, leading to inefficiencies, increased wear, higher energy bills, and difficulty in maintaining desired temperature ranges, especially when energy demands exceed average loads.
Innovation Solution
A climate control system that determines climate conditioning for multiple zones based on assigned priorities, allowing for dynamic redistribution of resources to prioritize zones with higher needs, ensuring efficient energy use and maintaining desired conditions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If equipment is oversized to handle peak loads, then the system can maintain desired temperature ranges during high demand, but energy consumption increases and equipment efficiency decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically adjusts the operation of climate control equipment across multiple zones based on real-time priority assignments. The controller continuously monitors zone priorities and redistributes equipment operation dynamically, allowing the system to adapt to changing load conditions without requiring oversized equipment capacity.
Solution Approach 2:
The building is divided into multiple zones with independently assignable priorities. This segmentation allows the control system to selectively direct climate control resources to high-priority zones during peak load conditions, rather than uniformly serving all zones, thereby reducing total energy consumption while maintaining reliability for critical areas.
2Reliability
If equipment is oversized to handle peak loads, then the system can meet high energy demands, but equipment wear and tear increases
Solution Approach 1:
The controller dynamically adjusts equipment operation based on zone priorities, preventing continuous full-capacity operation. By modulating equipment usage according to actual needs and priority assignments, the system reduces cumulative wear and tear while maintaining the ability to meet peak demands when necessary.
Solution Approach 2:
Instead of continuously operating equipment at full capacity to handle potential peak loads, the system applies partial action by selectively activating equipment for specific high-priority zones only when needed. This avoids unnecessary operation and wear on equipment while ensuring adequate capacity is available when required.
3Reliability
If equipment is oversized to handle peak loads, then the system can maintain temperature ranges during high demand, but installation and operational costs increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses dynamic priority-based control to optimize equipment operation in real-time. By continuously adjusting which zones receive climate control based on priority assignments, the system minimizes unnecessary energy consumption while ensuring temperature maintenance for high-priority zones, thereby reducing operational costs without sacrificing reliability.
Solution Approach 2:
The controller changes operational parameters by adjusting equipment runtime and capacity allocation based on zone priorities. This parameter adjustment allows the system to operate more efficiently under varying conditions, reducing energy consumption and operational costs while maintaining the ability to meet temperature requirements for prioritized zones during peak demand.
4Use of energy by moving object
If time-cycling control is used to match nominal load capacity, then equipment size can be optimized, but the system cannot sustain desired conditions when load exceeds average
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments zones into different priority levels, allowing nominal-capacity equipment to be time-cycled efficiently for low-priority zones while ensuring high-priority zones receive adequate service. This segmentation enables the system to maintain energy efficiency overall while preserving the ability to sustain desired conditions in critical areas even when total load exceeds average capacity.
Solution Approach 2:
The controller dynamically adjusts time-cycling patterns based on zone priorities and current load conditions. When overall demand is high, the system dynamically modifies operation schedules to ensure high-priority zones receive sufficient climate control while maintaining optimized energy usage for the nominal-capacity equipment through selective cycling.
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AI summary
A method and mechanism for performing a prioritized determining of a climate conditioning to be provided to a zone in a multiple zone structure. In one embodiment of the invention, the determining of a climate conditioning to be provided to a zone is to be a prioritized determining, where a climate control condition is determined to satisfy a priority condition of the first zone. In another embodiment, the first priority condition associated with the first zone is based at least in part on an assigning of a first priority to the first zone.