Butterfly Valve PID-Controller for Application in Individual Heating Substations

The reduction of the fossil fuels consumption is of great importance nowadays. The heating of residential apartments of domestic houses and hot water supply in the modern metapolicies arises challenges in application of modern technologies. The necessity for reliable regulation of temperatures inside the apartments requires quick-respond and accurate control techniques for the implied equipment. In the present work, the parametric model predictive control technique for water flowrate control of the butterfly type valve used for temperature and flowrate regulation in the individual heat substation of centralized heating system is proposed. The model improves the non-linear characteristics resulting in quality of flow control.

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The reduction of fossil fuels consumption is crucial today. The application of modern technologies for heating residential apartments and hot water supply poses challenges. Reliable regulation of temperatures inside apartments requires quick-respond and accurate control techniques for the equipment used. This study proposes a parametric model predictive control technique for water flowrate control of the butterfly type valve used in temperature and flowrate regulation of individual heat substations in centralized heating systems. The model improves non-linear characteristics, resulting in better flow control quality.