Study of a cooling system with air forced with monitoring of electrical energy consumption / Estudo de um sistema de resfriamento com ar forçado com monitoramento do consumo de energia eletrica

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2010

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This work is a study of a classical controller implementation using tuning method referred to as IMC (Internal Model Control), aimed at reducing electrical energy consumption that proceed the appropriate relation between this consumption and cooling time of the cooling process with forced air. For this, the supervisory system installed is able to manipulate the variable of frequency signal power of the exhaust fan engine (forced air module), to accelerate or decelerate the loss of heat from the product to be cooled through of air flow variation that passes through the mass of this product. The results demonstrated a reduction in energy consumption from 64% and an increase of only 8% in the cooling time to the system using PI/IMC (Proportional - Integral with IMC tuning method) compared with the system in its operating nominal condition. In other words, the system, in nominal condition, consumes 2.41 kWh to cool the product in 58 minutes, but when it employs the controller using the IMC method, the system consumes 0.87 kWh to cool the product in 63 minutes. This PI/IMC controller may be implemented directly in some frequency inverter, without the need to purchase a computer or PLC (programmable logic controller), making it more economically viable

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controle de processo process control refrigeration automation automação refrigeração

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