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Proceedings: The Second International Conference on Building Energy and Environment 2012 Topic 1. Building energy demand and energy performance of buildings, systems, and components Energy-saving by Optimizing Combination of Chillers with Different Capacities Haiwen Shu1, Xiangli Li1,*, Lin Duanmu1 1 Faculty of infrastructure engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China * Corresponding email: xianglili@126.com Keywords: Energy-saving, Cooling load, Combination of chillers, Optimal chiller loading SUMMARY The power consumption of chillers usually constitutes the largest part of energy consumption in an air-conditioning system. However different combination of chillers has different energy performance even for the same project. In order to find the most energy efficient scheme of chillers combination, the optimal chiller loading problem should be resolved properly first. As the main drawback of the current algorithms for searching the optimal loading strategy is that they often arrive at near optimal value or fall in the local optimal value instead of the global one, a new deterministic mathematical model based on the dynamic programming is put forward. Then a practical method is devised to find the most energy efficient scheme of chillers combination on the basis of the new model. In the end, the calculation results of a case study show that 7.4% energy-saving effect can be achieved by optimizing the combination of chillers. INTRODUCTION The energy consumption in buildings constitutes about one third of a nation’s total energy consumption in many countries these days. Within a building, the energy consumed by HVAC (heating, ventilation and air-conditioning) system usually takes up mor