Is Your Chilled Water Plant Ready For Adaptive Control?
Adaptive control is a proven, traditional control procedure that is at work on many diverse control applications. Adaptive control monitors actual system conditions and adjusts the control algorithm to fit those conditions. It can adjust points of transition of equipment such as chillers, cooling towers, and pumps.
Digital electronics has enabled a control engineer to apply adaptive control to central chilled water plants. Now, adaptive control can monitor actual conditions that exist in and around a chiller plant and adjust equipment operation to acquire the highest possible COP or lowest kW/ton.