Optimal on-off control of refrigerated transport systems

Control Engineering Practice

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1406-1417

  Li, Bin ^a   Otten, Richard ^a   Chandan, Vikas ^a   Mohs, William F ^b   Berge, Jeff ^b   Alleyne, Andrew G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b Climate Control Technologies   (United States)

Author keywords

Control; Emulation; Model; On off; Optimization; Refrigeration

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL TOOL; CARGO SPACE; CONTROL APPROACH; CONTROL DESIGN; EMULATION; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATIONS; LOAD EMULATION; NON-LINEAR DYNAMICS; NOVEL HARDWARE; ON-OFF; ON-OFF CONTROL; ON-OFF CYCLING; OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; REFRIGERATED TRANSPORT; REFRIGERATION SYSTEM; SET-POINT; SIMULATION EXAMPLE; SYSTEM EFFICIENCY; TEMPERATURE OSCILLATIONS; TEMPERATURE REGULATIONS; TEMPERATURE VARIATION;

COST FUNCTIONS; ENERGY UTILIZATION; OPTIMIZATION; REFRIGERATION; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ON-OFF CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 78349311902     PISSN: 09670661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conengprac.2010.08.001     Document Type: Article

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