A supervisory control strategy for building cooling water systems for practical and real time applications

Energy Conversion and Management

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 2324-2336

  Ma, Zhenjun ^a   Wang, Shengwei ^a   Xu, Xinhua ^a   Xiao, Fu ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Air conditioning system; Computational cost; Control accuracy; Energy efficiency; Optimal control; Supervisory control

Indexed keywords

GENETIC ALGORITHMS; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; REAL TIME CONTROL;

COOLING WATER SYSTEMS; HYBRID OPTIMIZATION; SEMI-PHYSICAL CHILLER;

COOLING SYSTEMS;

EID: 44249088788     PISSN: 01968904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enconman.2008.01.019     Document Type: Article

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