The application of advanced control technologies in air conditioning system – a review

ABSTRACT As the guarantee of comfort to people, healthy air conditioning (AC) system has been widely used in modern architecture. Meanwhile, AC system needs automatic control technology to ensure that equipment economically runs and indoor environment also gradually improves by the advance of science and technology. There are enormous challenges in automatic control technology; therefore, AC technology is effectively supported by advanced control algorithm, which can produce a variety of advanced AC control systems, and save energy at the same time. In this paper, there is a classified exposition according to the control types, system type and equipment of the AC system; also, the current research studies are analysed.

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