Patents by Inventor Susanna Staubly Hanson
Susanna Staubly Hanson has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20240110732Abstract: A packaged heating and/or cooling unit for a production module for a heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and refrigeration (HVACR) system. The packaged unit includes a heat pump configured to provide heating and/or cooling; a connection to a piping distribution system to selectively connect to a hot fluid circuit and/or a cold fluid circuit; and a controller. The controller is configured to connect to and receive a signal from a building automation system for a heating requirement or a cooling requirement, and further configured to selectively control connection to either the hot fluid circuit or the cold fluid circuit and independently control the packaged heating and/or cooling unit based on the signal from the building automation system for either the heating requirement or the cooling requirement.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2022Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Lee R. Cline, Susanna Staubly Hanson
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Patent number: 11808483Abstract: 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.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2022Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: TRANE INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventors: Brian A. Kirkman, Susanna Staubly Hanson, Lee R. Cline
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Publication number: 20230332807Abstract: A heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and refrigeration (HVACR) system includes a heating fluid circuit, a cooling fluid circuit, and a storage fluid circuit. A thermal system of the HVACR system absorbs energy from the storage fluid circuit and rejects it to the heating fluid circuit. The storage fluid circuit includes thermal storage tanks containing thermal storage material that can provide energy for heating or absorb energy for cooling depending on the state of the thermal storage material. Heating can be provided using the heating fluid circuit and the heat provided by the thermal system. Cooling can be provided using the cooling fluid circuit by absorbing energy from the conditioned space using a cooling fluid and rejecting energy from the cooling fluid to the storage fluid circuit including the thermal storage tanks. The thermal storage tanks can also have heat added to them using an air source heat pump system to provide sufficient storage for heating operations.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2023Publication date: October 19, 2023Inventors: Mark Mitchell MacCracken, Susanna Staubly Hanson
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Patent number: 11680733Abstract: A heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and refrigeration (HVACR) system includes a heating fluid circuit, a cooling fluid circuit, and a storage fluid circuit. A thermal system of the HVACR system absorbs energy from the storage fluid circuit and rejects it to the heating fluid circuit. The storage fluid circuit includes thermal storage tanks containing thermal storage material that can provide energy for heating or absorb energy for cooling depending on the state of the thermal storage material. Heating can be provided using the heating fluid circuit and the heat provided by the thermal system. Cooling can be provided using the cooling fluid circuit by absorbing energy from the conditioned space using a cooling fluid and rejecting energy from the cooling fluid to the storage fluid circuit. The thermal storage tanks can have heat added to them using an air source heat pump system to support heating operations.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2020Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: TRANE INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventors: Mark Mitchell MacCracken, Susanna Staubly Hanson
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Publication number: 20220381525Abstract: 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.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2022Publication date: December 1, 2022Inventors: Brian A. Kirkman, Susanna Staubly Hanson, Lee R. Cline
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Patent number: 11408621Abstract: 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.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2020Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: TRANE INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventors: Brian A. Kirkman, Susanna Staubly Hanson, Lee R. Cline
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Publication number: 20220205686Abstract: A heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and refrigeration (HVACR) system includes a heating fluid circuit, a cooling fluid circuit, and a storage fluid circuit. A thermal system of the HVACR system absorbs energy from the storage fluid circuit and rejects it to the heating fluid circuit. The storage fluid circuit includes thermal storage tanks containing thermal storage material that can provide energy for heating or absorb energy for cooling depending on the state of the thermal storage material. Heating can be provided using the heating fluid circuit and the heat provided by the thermal system. Cooling can be provided using the cooling fluid circuit by absorbing energy from the conditioned space using a cooling fluid and rejecting energy from the cooling fluid to the storage fluid circuit including the thermal storage tanks. The thermal storage tanks can also have heat added to them using an air source heat pump system to provide sufficient storage for heating operations.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2020Publication date: June 30, 2022Inventors: Mark Mitchell MacCracken, Susanna Staubly Hanson
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Publication number: 20220186944Abstract: 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.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2020Publication date: June 16, 2022Inventors: Brian A. Kirkman, Susanna Staubly Hanson, Lee R. Cline
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Patent number: 10586192Abstract: A system and a method for calculating in real time, actual realized savings that a cooling system obtains from addition of a thermal storage capability to the cooling system, compared to a model of the system without the added thermal storage capability.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2019Date of Patent: March 10, 2020Assignee: TRANE INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventors: Susanna Staubly Hanson, William Nelson Devroy, Anthony Wayne Bruno, Joel Donald Monroe
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Publication number: 20190295021Abstract: A system and a method for calculating in real time, actual realized savings that a cooling system obtains from addition of a thermal storage capability to the cooling system, compared to a model of the system without the added thermal storage capability.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2019Publication date: September 26, 2019Inventors: Susanna Staubly Hanson, William Nelson Devroy, Anthony Wayne Bruno, Joel Donald Monroe
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Patent number: 10192183Abstract: A system and a method for calculating in real time, actual realized savings that a cooling system obtains from addition of a thermal storage capability to the cooling system, compared to a model of the system without the added thermal storage capability.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2013Date of Patent: January 29, 2019Assignee: TRANE INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventors: Susanna Staubly Hanson, William Nelson Devroy, Anthony Wayne Bruno, Joel Donald Monroe
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Publication number: 20140156335Abstract: A system and a method for calculating in real time, actual realized savings that a cooling system obtains from addition of a thermal storage capability to the cooling system, compared to a model of the system without the added thermal storage capability.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2013Publication date: June 5, 2014Applicant: TRANE INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventors: Susanna Staubly Hanson, William Nelson Devroy, Anthony Wayne Bruno, Joel Donald Monroe