A three-pipe, multi-split system and a control method thereof. The three-pipe multi-split system includes an outdoor unit, a multi-split indoor unit, and a hydraulic module. By optimizing a refrigerant system, the phenomenon that a refrigerant is throttled before flowing through a refrigerant heat dissipation module or supercooled when passing through a plate heat exchanger which causes a relatively low temperature of the refrigerant entering the refrigerant heat dissipation module and consequent condensation on the refrigerant heat dissipation module to produce condensate water and then causes a damage to a compressor frequency conversion module can be avoided. In addition, more refrigerant is caused to flow through the refrigerant heat dissipation module to reduce the temperature of the module.

An air conditioner may include a case having a supply channel therein through which external air flows into an interior space; a first heat exchanger disposed on the supply channel and in which the air and refrigerant exchange heat; a second heat exchanger disposed at a downstream side of the first heat exchanger in the supply channel, and in which the air and refrigerant exchange heat; and a refrigerant distributor that sends refrigerant to the first heat exchanger or the second heat exchanger. The refrigerant distributor may include a liquid pipe connected with the first heat exchanger and through which liquid-state refrigerant flows; a first gas pipe connected to the first heat exchanger and the second heat exchanger and through which gas-state refrigerant flows; a second gas pipe through which gas-state refrigerant discharged from the first heat exchanger flows; a first gas pipe valve disposed on the first gas pipe and that sends refrigerant flowing through the first gas pipe to the first heat exchanger or the second heat exchanger; and a second gas pipe valve disposed on the second gas pipe and that opens and closes the second gas pipe.

An air conditioning and ventilating system S including: an air conditioning device A including a heat exchanger 22 configured to generate conditioned air by heat exchange with a refrigerant, and configured to send the conditioned air to an air conditioned space R; a ventilation device 30 configured to ventilate the air conditioned space R; a refrigerant sensor 24 configured to detect concentration of the refrigerant in the air conditioned space R; and a control unit 40 configured to control operations of the air conditioning device A and the ventilation device 30. On determination that the refrigerant concentration acquired from the refrigerant sensor 24 exceeds a first predetermined value, the control unit 40 sets an operation of a compressor 13 of the air conditioning device A to a stop state and sets the ventilation device 30 to an operating state. On determination that the refrigerant concentration that has exceeded the first predetermined value becomes equal to or less than the first predetermined value, the control unit 40 continues the stop state of the compressor 13 of the air conditioning device A and the operating state of the ventilation device 30 until predetermined timing.

Chiller control systems and methods for chiller control use iterative modeling of cooling towers, heat exchangers, and pumps to determine the feasibility of integrated free cooling and the ability to take advantage of free cooling. The control systems and control methods can further include selecting the parameters for operating in the free cooling or integrated free cooling mode to improve efficiency and/or reduce energy consumption when operating in these modes. The models can have inputs and outputs that feed into one another, and converge at a solution over multiple iterations. The feasibility of integrated free cooling can be based on providing cooling to a cooling load process fluid at a heat exchanger. The availability of free cooling can be based on the cooling provided at the heat exchanger achieving a target temperature for the cooling load process fluid.

An air-conditioning apparatus includes: a heat-source-side device that heats or cools a heat medium; a pump that sucks and transfers the heat medium; use-side heat exchangers; a heat medium circuit; flow rate control devices; indoor-side pressure sensors; a pump inlet-side pressure sensor and/or a pump outlet-side pressure sensor; a flow rate detection device that detects a pump flow rate; and a controller that performs a first operation in which the flow rate control devices are individually opened or closed and data regarding a flow passage resistance at a path related to each of the heat exchangers is obtained, and a second operation in which heat is supplied to indoor air, and calculates calculate flow rates of the heat medium that flows through the heat exchangers in the second operation, from pump flow rates and pressures detected by the pressure sensors in the first and second operations.

In an air-conditioning apparatus, an outdoor unit installed in an outdoor space and an indoor unit installed in an indoor space are connected by refrigerant pipes to form a refrigerant circuit. One or more pairs of valve kits are provided at the refrigerant pipes by which the outdoor unit and the indoor unit are connected, and allow a pair of additional refrigerant pipes on an inflow side and an outflow side to be connected to one of the one or more pairs of valve kits, the pair of additional refrigerant pipes being additionally provided to enable a new indoor unit to be added after installation of the air-conditioning apparatus. The valve kits of the one or more pairs of valve kits have respective distal end portions that are inclined upwards relative to a horizontal direction. The distal end portions each allow an associated one of the additional refrigerant pipe to be connected to the distal end portion.

An air conditioning apparatus is provided that may include an outdoor unit including a compressor and an outdoor heat exchanger and through which a refrigerant is circulated, an indoor unit through which a fluid, such as water is circulated, and at least one heat exchange device including a heat exchanger in which the refrigerant and the fluid are heat-exchanged with each other. The at least one heat exchange device may include a high-pressure guide tube that extends from a high-pressure gas tube of the outdoor unit so as to be connected to a first side of the heat exchanger, a low-pressure guide tube that extends from a low-pressure gas tube of the outdoor unit so as to be combined with the high-pressure guide tube, a liquid guide tube that extends from a liquid tube of the outdoor unit so as to be connected to a second side of the heat exchanger, and a solenoid valve installed in the high-pressure guide tube or the low-pressure guide tube to perform an opening and closing operation so as to allow the refrigerant to flow in a first direction. The high-pressure gas tube and the low-pressure gas tube may be connected to each other by a single gas tube, and when the indoor unit performs a cooling operation or a heating operation, flow of refrigerant in the first direction may be blocked in a state in which power is applied to the solenoid valve.

The present disclosure provides a control method, applied to a control device with a touch display unit, the control device is configured to control an air conditioner system to operate, the air conditioner system comprises one outdoor unit and at least two indoor units, and the control method includes following operations: obtaining historical operation records for the at least two indoor units; and determining control parameters of the at least two indoor units according to the historical operation records to control the at least two indoor units. The present disclosure also discloses an air conditioner system, a control device, and a computer-readable storage medium. The present disclosure solves the problem of how to facilitate the user to control an air conditioner system with multiple indoor units.

An air conditioning system and a control method thereof. The air conditioning system includes a main circuit and a first subcooling circuit, wherein the main circuit has: a main compressor and an injector; a gas cooler and a gas-liquid separator connected between the main compressor and the injector; and a main throttling element and an evaporator connected between the gas-liquid separator and the injector; and wherein the first subcooling circuit has: a first subcooling compressor, a first condenser, a first subcooling throttling element and a first subcooler connected in sequence; wherein the first subcooler is further disposed in a flow path between the outlet of the injector and the gas-liquid separator.

Provided is an air conditioning apparatus. The air conditioning apparatus includes a heat exchanger in which the refrigerant and the water are heat-exchanged with each other, a high-pressure guide tube extending from a high-pressure gas tube of an outdoor unit so as to be connected to one side of the heat exchanger, a low-pressure guide tube extending from a low-pressure gas tube of the outdoor unit so as to be combined with the high-pressure guide tube, a liquid guide tube extending from a liquid tube of the outdoor unit so as to be connected to the other side of the heat exchanger, a bypass tube configured to connect a bypass branch point of the high-pressure gas tube to a bypass combination point of the liquid guide tube to bypass a high-pressure refrigerant existing in the high-pressure tube to the liquid guide tube, and a bypass valve installed in the bypass tube.