| 摘要 |
<p>A chiller control apparatus increases or decreases chillers in order to efficiently operate an entire chiller system. When the number of chillers increases, an insufficient load value calculation unit calculates an insufficient amount of a load for a required load. Then, using a COP obtained according to an operating environment of the chiller, a chiller-to-be-operated selection unit selects, from among stopped chillers, a chiller having the highest COP when operated with an insufficient amount of a load, as the chiller to be subjected to stage increase. Further, when the number of chillers decreases, an operation pattern extraction unit extracts operation patterns that are combinations of chillers to be operated according to the required load. Then, a chiller-to-be-stopped selection unit obtains a COP of the entire chiller system for each operation pattern, using the COP obtained according to the operating environment of the chiller, and selects a chiller subjected to stage decrease based on the operation pattern corresponding to the highest COP.</p> |
