Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5016987 | International Journal of Refrigeration | 2017 | 33 Pages |
Abstract
For predicting the performance of variable refrigerant flow multi-split air conditioning (VRF) systems with arbitrary layouts under various operating conditions, a general simulation model for VRF systems based on graph theory was proposed. In the present study, the directed graphs and adjacent matrixes were established to describe the systems with arbitrary layouts under cooling and heating modes, and a diagonal matrix was developed to describe the operating number of indoor units; the general description matrix of VRF systems under various operating conditions was expressed as the multiplication of the adjacent matrixes and the diagonal matrix. The component models meeting the simulation accuracy requirement were presented. A tailor-made iteration algorithm using graph-based traversal method was developed to solve the system model. The proposed simulation model for VRF systems was validated experimentally, and the model deviations of the heat capacity, temperature and pressure are within 3%, ±3â°C and ±5%, respectively.
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Authors
Haoran Sun, Guoliang Ding, Haitao Hu, Tao Ren, Guanghui Xia, Guoming Wu,