<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!DOCTYPE article  PUBLIC "-//NLM//DTD Journal Publishing DTD v3.0 20080202//EN" "http://dtd.nlm.nih.gov/publishing/3.0/journalpublishing3.dtd"><article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="3.0" xml:lang="en" article-type="research article"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">WJET</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>World Journal of Engineering and Technology</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="epub">2331-4222</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Scientific Research Publishing</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.4236/wjet.2019.72B009</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">WJET-92693</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Articles</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="Discipline-v2"><subject>Chemistry&amp;Materials Science</subject><subject> Engineering</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>
 
 
  Study on the Elman Neural Network Operation Control Strategy of the Central Air Conditioning Chilled Water System*
 
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Jianwei</surname><given-names>Li</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"><sup>1</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Qingchang</surname><given-names>Ren</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2"><sup>2</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Hai</surname><given-names>Long</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff3"><sup>3</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Zengxi</surname><given-names>Feng</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2"><sup>2</sup></xref></contrib></contrib-group><aff id="aff2"><addr-line>School of Information &amp;amp; Control Engineering, Xi’an University of Architecture &amp;amp; Technology, Xi’an, China</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff1"><addr-line>School of Civil Engineering, Xi’an University of Architecture &amp;amp; Technology, Xi’an, China</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff3"><addr-line>China Nuclear Power Operations Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, China</addr-line></aff><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>17</day><month>05</month><year>2019</year></pub-date><volume>07</volume><issue>02</issue><fpage>73</fpage><lpage>82</lpage><history><date date-type="received"><day>21,</day>	<month>February</month>	<year>2019</year></date><date date-type="rev-recd"><day>26,</day>	<month>May</month>	<year>2019</year>	</date><date date-type="accepted"><day>29,</day>	<month>May</month>	<year>2019</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement>&#169; Copyright  2014 by authors and Scientific Research Publishing Inc. </copyright-statement><copyright-year>2014</copyright-year><license><license-p>This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>
 
 
  
    The stable operation of the central air conditioning water system always is a major difficulty for the control profession. Paper focus on the water system with multi variable, strong coupling, nonlinear, large time delay characteristics, presented use feed forward coupling compensation method, to eliminate the coupling effect between temperature and pressure. In this paper, the Elman neural network controller is designed for the first time, and the simulation results show that the response time of Elman neural network controller is shorter, the system is more stable and the overshoot is small. 
  
 
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>Feed Forward Coupling Compensation</kwd><kwd> Central Air Conditioning Water  System Always</kwd><kwd> Temperature Difference Control</kwd><kwd> Pressure Difference  Control</kwd><kwd> Elman Neural Network</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><body><sec id="s1"><title>1. Introduction</title><p>For the operation control of the central air conditioning water system, generally control the temperature difference and pressure difference. More scholars have done a lot of experimental research and engineering verification on the control method for temperature difference and pressure difference [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.92693-ref1">1</xref>]. K. F. Fong optimization temperature setpoint of chilled water by EP genetic algorithm, water pump control strategy of air conditioning water system are analyzed and experimental by Brian J. Moore and Jamess B. [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.92693-ref2">2</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.92693-ref3">3</xref>]. For the control strategy and control algorithm of the control circuit 2 input −2 output water system, the research is very few, so this paper design a Elman neural network controller for controlling the air conditioning water system stable operation by feed forward coupling compensation [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.92693-ref4">4</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.92693-ref5">5</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.92693-ref6">6</xref>].</p></sec><sec id="s2"><title>2. Chilled Water System Model</title><p>As <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig1">Figure 1</xref> show, for the operation control of the central air-conditioning water system, mainly through the control of chilled water supply and return water loop pressure and temperature to achieve. Chilled water supply and return water loop pressure is mainly through the bypass valve to achieve, the temperature difference is mainly through the control of chilled water flow to achieve. The specific control system diagram is shown in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig2">Figure 2</xref> and <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig3">Figure 3</xref> [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.92693-ref7">7</xref>].</p><p>As Fiure 2 show, for a given chilled water supply and return water loop pressure difference value, mainly through the opening of the regulating valve to achieve the loop of the chilled water supply and return water pressure control, when the chilled water supply and return water loop differential pressure differential pressure is lower than the setpoint, the bypass valve opening decreases. In order to increase the impedance of the pipeline, so as to achieve the stable pressure, and finally achieve the system running requirements.</p><p>As <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig3">Figure 3</xref> show, for a given temperature of chilled water supply and return water loop setpoints, mainly through adjusting the pump speed to change the operation flow of the chilled water system, to get the supply and return water temperature of chilled water loop control, when the temperature difference between chilled water supply and return water temperature is lower than the setpoint of the loop, by reducing the speed water pump. To reduce operation flow chilled water system, to achieve the temperature stability.</p><p>In fact, because of the strong direct coupling between the differential pressure regulating and the temperature regulating system, so it is very difficult to control</p><p>the system. As shown in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig4">Figure 4</xref>, when the different pressure regulating opening while changing the bypass valve, also changed the impedance of chilled water piping system, resulting in the chilled water system flow changes in the system under a certain load, the inevitable change of chilled water supply and return water temperature loop. Similarly, when the temperature difference is adjusted by changing the pump the rotational speed of the flow change at the same time, also cause the pressure difference on both sides of the chilled water bypass valve, and the impact of the water system pressure control.</p><p>In fact, to central air-conditioning chilled water control system, is a “2 input −2 output” control system. As show in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig5">Figure 5</xref>, G 11 ( s ) as the bypass valve opening-pipeline pressure control loop model, G 21 ( s ) as the bypass valve opening-supply and return temperature control loop model, G 12 ( s ) as the pump speed-line pressure control loop model, G 22 ( s ) for the “water pump speed for the return water temperature control loop model, y 1 for chilled water loop pipeline pressure, y 2 for chilled water supply and return temperature for the r 1 loop, chilled water loop pressure difference value, r 1 for chilled water supply and return temperature setting circuit. With the method of system identification (using MATLAB system identification toolbox), can get the mathematical model of each circuit module, as follows:</p><p>G ( s ) = [ G 11 ( s ) G 12 ( s ) G 21 ( s ) G 22 ( s ) ] = [ Y 1 ( s ) U 1 ( s ) Y 1 ( s ) U 2 ( s ) Y 2 ( s ) U 1 ( s ) Y 2 ( s ) U 2 ( s ) ] (1)</p><p>Y 1 ( s ) U 1 ( s ) = 0.0000274 s + 0.0002629 s 2 − 2.0043 s + 1.0054 e − 7.9 s</p><p>Y 2 ( s ) U 1 ( s ) = 0.0000025 s − 0.0000022 s 2 − 2.0043 s + 1.0054 e − 12.2 s</p><p>Y 1 ( s ) U 2 ( s ) = 0.1105 s + 0.5013 s 2 − 2.0043 s + 1.0054 e − 20.1 s</p><p>Y 2 ( s ) U 2 ( s ) = 0.0053 s − 0.0047 s 2 − 2.0043 s + 1.0054 e − 16.8 s</p></sec><sec id="s3"><title>3. Decoupling of Water System of Central Air Conditioning System and Design of Controller</title><sec id="s3_1"><title>3.1. Control Model Decoupling of Chilled Water System</title><p>For the decoupling method of the chilled water control model, the traditional decoupling method mainly has the modern frequency method and the feed forward compensation method. The modern frequency method also includes time domain method. The pre compensation method includes the invariance of the contact, the matrix inversion and the inverse decoupling. In this paper, the decoupling network is designed by using the invariance principle of feed forward decoupling compensation method, as shown in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig6">Figure 6</xref>:</p><p>Order:</p><p>y 11 − y 12 = 0 ( m 2 ≠ 0 )</p><p>y 21 − y 22 = 0 ( m 1 ≠ 0 )</p><p>So:</p><p>G 12 ( s ) − D 12 ( s ) G 11 ( s ) = 0</p><p>G 21 ( s ) − D 21 ( s ) G 22 ( s ) = 0</p><p>So the mathematical model of the decoupling network:</p><p>D 12 ( s ) = − G 12 ( s ) G 11 ( s ) (2)</p><p>D 21 ( s ) = − G 21 ( s ) G 22 ( s ) (3)</p><p>Put expressions (1) input (2), (3):</p><p>D 12 ( s ) = 9.12 s − 8.03 s + 9.59 e − 4.3 s</p><p>D 21 ( s ) = 20.85 s − 94.59 s − 0.89 e − 3.3 s</p></sec><sec id="s3_2"><title>3.2. Elman Neural Network Controller</title><p><xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig6">Figure 6</xref> build the “2 input −2 output” decoupling network, although solved the problem of coupling between systems, but in order to ensure that the system output value satisfies the set value requirements, also need to set up the network controller based on feed forward compensation decoupling in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig6">Figure 6</xref>. In the control system, the PID controller is the most commonly used controller. Its principle block diagram is shown in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig7">Figure 7</xref>.</p><p>PID controller is based on the control deviation which on value Rin ( t ) and the Yout ( t ) :</p><p>Error ( t ) = Rin ( t ) − Yout (t)</p><p>u ( t ) = k p ( e r r o r ( t ) + 1 k i ∫ 0 t e r r o r ( t ) d t + k d d e r r o r ( t ) d t )</p><p>G ( s ) = U ( s ) E ( s ) = k p ( 1 + 1 k i s + k d s )</p><p>where:</p><p>K<sub>p</sub>: ratio coefficient;</p><p>K<sub>i</sub>: integral time constant;</p><p>K<sub>d</sub>: differential time constant.</p><p>In the actual project cases, k p k i k d control parameter values have great influence on the output of the system, because of the central air conditioning system of “multi input and multi output, strong coupling between the system</p><p>and other factors, resulting in the actual debugging of central air-conditioning system, control tuning parameters, k p k i k d has become very difficult. Therefore, the control loop of the water system of the central air conditioning system, the choice of the corresponding PID parameters becomes very important. If the parameter selection is not properly, it will not only lead to oscillation of the control loop, and even cause the instability of the control loop of the whole air conditioning system. The selection of control parameters k p k i k d in the actual air conditioning control case is also the difficulty of the project. In this paper, a new method of PID parameter k p k i k d is proposed, which uses the Elman neural network to adjust the parameters of the PID controller k p k i k d . As shown in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig8">Figure 8</xref>.</p></sec><sec id="s3_3"><title>3.3. Elman Neural Network Architecture</title><p><xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig9">Figure 9</xref> for the Elman neural network model structure, from <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig9">Figure 9</xref>, we can see that the model design of the algorithm for the 3 input, 3 output, the middle layer for the 5 layer structure.</p></sec><sec id="s3_4"><title>3.4. Model Training Steps</title><p>1) Initialization model: w j l w i j w k j θ l θ j ;</p><p>2) Input training values: x 1 , x 2 ⋅ ⋅ ⋅ x p the output value of the model: y 1 , y 2 ⋅ ⋅ ⋅ y p ;</p><p>3) estimate: | t p − y p | &lt; ε ;</p><p>4) If the step (3) is satisfied, the weight and the threshold value of the model are corresponding to the model, or the following steps:</p><p>5) The following values are calculated</p><p>E p l = 1 2 ∑ l = 0 m − l ( t l p l − y l p l ) 2 ;</p><p>E a l l = 1 2 ∑ p l = 1 p ∑ l = 0 m − l ( t l p l − y l p l ) 2 ;</p><p>w j l ( n + 1 ) = w j l ( n ) − η ∂ E a l l ∂ w j l ;</p><p>θ l ( n + 1 ) = θ l ( n ) − η ∂ E a l l ∂ θ l ;</p><p>w i j ( n + 1 ) = w i j ( n ) − η ∂ E a l l ∂ w i j ;</p><p>w k j ( n + 1 ) = w k j ( n ) − η ∂ E a l l ∂ w k j ;</p><p>θ j ( n + 1 ) = θ j ( n ) − η ∂ E a l l ∂ θ j ;</p><p>6) calculated the model again: w j l w i j w k j θ l θ j</p><p>7) Return step (2)</p><p>If the step (3) satisfies the condition and stops the training (step 5), the measured value is input to the model, and the predicted value is obtained.</p></sec></sec><sec id="s4"><title>4. Simulation and Analysis of Water System Operation Control</title><sec id="s4_1"><title>4.1. Elman Neural Network Controller Program Simulation</title><p>According to the analysis of simulation program controller of central air conditioning water system, this paper uses MATLAB software as a simulation tool for research, program can be realized by MATLAB in Simulink, can be directly through the MATLAB program simulation directly.</p><p>As shown in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig1">Figure 1</xref>0, for the Elman neural network PID control algorithm simulation diagram, procedures in accordance with the Elman neural network</p><p>PID control structure based on given the formula (1), (12), (13) the corresponding coefficients corresponding simulation chart module. And the preparation of Elman PID1 and Elman PID2 corresponding to the Elman neural network PIDcontrol operation of the m file.</p></sec><sec id="s4_2"><title>4.2. Simulation Results of Elman 4.2. Neural Network Controller</title><p><xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig1">Figure 1</xref>1 shows the Elman neural network PID pressure control corresponding to the input-output simulation results, it can be seen from <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig1">Figure 1</xref>1, the Elman neural network PID control based on differential pressure, can be very good to achieve the central air conditioning water system pressure difference value of precision control, but the overshoot of Elman neural network PID differential pressure control based on the comparison, the output of the system in a short time quickly from the pressure difference of 0 m water column, up to 17.137 m water column, so the central air conditioning water system is bad, need to give enough attention in the subsequent engineering verification, but also need to see that the Elman neural network PID differential controllers based on the output of the system rise time is very short, the rise time is only 7S, the adjusting time is only 16S, and can be quickly to ensure the system output stable.</p><p><xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig1">Figure 1</xref>2 shows the Elman PID neural network temperature control corresponding to the input-output simulation results, it can be seen from <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig1">Figure 1</xref>2, the PID temperature control based on Elman neural network, the output of the system can not only quickly change follow the preset temperature value changes, and the system is stable, small overshoot. Thus, based on the Elman neural network PID temperature control, can achieve very good operating results.</p><p>In practical projects, for the regulation of central air conditioning water system operation, but also to adjust the temperature and pressure regulation by using the temperature difference, therefore, Elman neural network PID differential</p><p>pressure control, can realize the central air conditioning water system operation good regulation.</p></sec></sec><sec id="s5"><title>5. Summary</title><p>In view of the central air conditioning water system control “2 input −2 output” characteristics, using the invariance principle of feed forward decoupling compensation method, realize the decoupling network structure of the central air conditioning water system “2 input −2 output”, and the use of Elman neural network based on PID control algorithm, to achieve the precise control of the central air conditioning water system pressure difference the temperature difference, the simulation results show that Elman neural network control algorithm based on PID, not only can quickly respond to changes in input system, and the control precision is high, operation results are stable and have good application value.</p></sec><sec id="s6"><title>Conflicts of Interest</title><p>The authors declare no conflicts of interest regarding the publication of this paper.</p></sec><sec id="s7"><title>Cite this paper</title><p>Li, J.W., Ren, Q.C., Long, H. and Feng, Z.X. 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