A new control system

for high-rise elevators

Naveed Jabbar
BE (Elect), MIEEEP
Roland deSouza
BE (Elect), FIEEEP
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Passenger demand rate

in an office building
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Single-tenant buildings surveyed

NBP Building

¾ 40,000 m2 area
¾ Ground + 10 floors
¾ Seven elevators for3000 persons in 1963
¾ Increased population (about 6000) in mid-1990s
¾ Original elevator system has not yet been replaced

HBL Plaza

¾ 18,000 m2 area
¾ Ground + 22 floors
¾ Six elevators for 1300 persons in 1970
¾ Increased population (about 3000) in mid–1990s.
¾ Separate VIP/executive (observation) elevator
installed later
¾ Three elevators recently replaced
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Passenger arrival patterns

in office buildings

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Starting time
Theoretical

MCB
3.5 17%
NBP

HBL
( Percentage of population/5-minutes )

3
15%
Rate of Arrivals

2.5

8%

1.5

7%
0.5

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8:25 8:30 8:35 8:40 8:45 8:50 8:55 9:00 9:05 9:10 9:15 9:20 9:25 9:30 9:35 9:40
Time
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Effect of proportions
of MCB Tower

No of No of Elevators Comparative
floors elevators specifications cost index
G+3
2 1600kg/1.6 m/s 30%
floors
G+8
3 1600kg/2.0 m/s 45%
floors
G + 13
4 1600kg/2.0 m/s 65%
floors
G + 23
5 1250kg/3.15m/s 100%
floors
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Traffic Analysis
Data/assumptions
¾ Population of building = 935 persons
¾ Average attendance = 80% = 748 persons
¾ Shaft spaces available = 5 Nos. 2600mm x 2300mm
1 No. 1800mm x 2700mm
nd
¾ Mezzanine & mechanical (2 ) floors served by
service elevator only outside peak hours.

Solution adopted
¾ 5 general passenger elevators (1250kg/16-passenger, 3.15m/s)
◊ up-peak interval = 33.3 seconds
◊ handling capacity = 15.4 %
◊ during peak hours, no basement service
◊ outside peak-hours, one elevator for goods/service
(also serving two parking basements)
¾ 1 VIP/executive elevator (1000kg/13-passenger, 3.15m/s)
¾ Design fine-tuned by specifying:
◊ maximum acceleration = 1.4 m/s2
◊ maximum jerk/shock = 2.0 m/s3
◊ door opening/closing times = 0.8 s /2.7 s
◊ single-floor flight time < 5.0 s
◊ door pre-opening feature
◊ VVVF drives
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MCB Tower
Hasrat Mohani Road

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Destination Call Control

¾ Two fundamental uncertainties:
When an elevator is called:
¾ how many people are behind that call?

¾ what is each passenger’s destination?

Conventional Control Destination Call Control

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Destination Call Control Keypad

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Basis of
Destination Call Control
¾ Passengers with coincident destinations
directed to the same car
¾ Restriction of number of floors served on any trip
¾ Reduction in number of stops for each trip
¾ Reduction in car round-trip time
¾ Consequently,
¾ reduction in interval
¾ increase in handling capacity

So,
improvement in
performance of elevator system
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Proprietary systems

Variations of these sophisticated

algorithms include:

¾ Schindler Hall Call System

Miconic-10
¾ Mitsubishi Destination Oriented
Prediction System Σ AI-2200
¾ Thyssen Destination Selection Control
ETD
¾ Otis Channeling
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Advantages of
Destination Call Control system
¾ Advance knowledge of every passenger’s
destination before they even enter/reach the elevator
--- providing real-time data for advance planning of
traffic

¾ Reduced passenger journey times during up-peak

traffic (of up to 30%) against conventional group
control

¾ Elimination of crowding during heavy traffic,

avoiding competition by passengers for the first
available car

¾ Elimination of shoving and pushing inside the car to

reach the floor registration buttons.

¾ Greater flexibility for the layout of elevators and

building core configuration

¾ Other special/optional features