Evolutionary Split Range Controller for a Refrigeration System

Gerardo Soto, Jesús-Antonio Hernandez-Riveros

2019

Abstract

Every year more than 80 million units of domestic refrigerators are produced worldwide. Hundreds of millions are used continuously so the impact on electricity is significant. Typical initiatives in energy efficiency for refrigeration systems are aimed at: a) redesigns b) new materials and c) good use practices. A different approach in energy efficiency for Vapour Compression Refrigeration Systems (VCRS) is the implementation of control strategies that directly reduce energy consumption while guaranteeing operating conditions. The difficulty lies in the multiple energy domains of the system (electric/mechanical/hydraulic/thermal), high coupling, multiplicity of variables, strong non-linearity and non-stationary regime. This paper focuses on increasing the energy efficiency of a VCRS with the implementation of an optimal split range and multi-objective evolutionary control. The evolutionary control is expanded to variable speed compressors and electronic expansion valves. The effectiveness of the evolutionary method was demonstrated through the Benchmarking of the IFAC. Now, in the multi-domain model of the VCRS, the MAGO algorithm is applied to optimally tune a split range controller to achieve a more precise behaviour and multi-objective to save energy. The cases studied go from traditional control to multivariable and multivariable-multi-objective control, the results in energy saving are outstanding.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Soto G. and Hernandez-Riveros J. (2019). Evolutionary Split Range Controller for a Refrigeration System.In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO, ISBN 978-989-758-380-3, pages 341-351. DOI: 10.5220/0007930803410351

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icinco19,
author={Gerardo Soto and Jesús-Antonio Hernandez-Riveros},
title={Evolutionary Split Range Controller for a Refrigeration System},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO,},
year={2019},
pages={341-351},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0007930803410351},
isbn={978-989-758-380-3},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO,
TI - Evolutionary Split Range Controller for a Refrigeration System
SN - 978-989-758-380-3
AU - Soto G.
AU - Hernandez-Riveros J.
PY - 2019
SP - 341
EP - 351
DO - 10.5220/0007930803410351