Influence of time constants on low energy buildings' heating control

Tuule Mall  Kull; Raimo Simson; Martin Thalfeldt; Jarek Kurnitski

doi:10.1016/j.egypro.2017.09.640

Influence of time constants on low energy buildings' heating control

Tuule Mall Kull, Raimo Simson, Martin Thalfeldt, Jarek Kurnitski

Department of Civil Engineering

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Abstract

This paper estimates the range of time constant values for buildings with different insulation, thermal mass, and heat emitters for efficient temperature control by PI controllers, and comparing heat emission efficiency of the systems. Detailed models of the room, the heat emitter and the control system were used for dynamic simulations. For one case, the results were compared with measurements in a test building. Large variance in time constant values was found depending on the heat emitter, building parameters and the method used for the calculation. Time constant values were in the range of 1.9 to 94 hours. PI control with calculated parameters resulted in up to 8% heating energy difference between the low temperature water radiator and underfloor heating. The measurements showed lower time constant values than the simulations

Original language	English
Title of host publication	11th Nordic Symposium on Building Physics, NSB2017, 11-14 June 2017, Trondheim, Norway
Publisher	Elsevier
Pages	75-80
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2017.09.640
Publication status	Published - 2017
MoE publication type	A4 Conference publication
Event	Nordic Symposium on Building Physics - Trondheim, Norway Duration: 11 Jun 2017 → 14 Jun 2017 Conference number: 11

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Name	Energy procedia
Publisher	Elsevier
Volume	132
ISSN (Electronic)	1876-6102

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Conference	Nordic Symposium on Building Physics
Abbreviated title	NSB
Country/Territory	Norway
City	Trondheim
Period	11/06/2017 → 14/06/2017

Keywords

low-energy building
heat emission efficiency
time constant
PI control parameters
low temperature heating
building automation

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Kull, TM, Simson, R, Thalfeldt, M & Kurnitski, J 2017, Influence of time constants on low energy buildings' heating control. in 11th Nordic Symposium on Building Physics, NSB2017, 11-14 June 2017, Trondheim, Norway. Energy procedia, vol. 132, Elsevier, pp. 75-80, Nordic Symposium on Building Physics, Trondheim, Norway, 11/06/2017. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2017.09.640

Influence of time constants on low energy buildings' heating control. / Kull, Tuule Mall; Simson, Raimo; Thalfeldt, Martin et al.
11th Nordic Symposium on Building Physics, NSB2017, 11-14 June 2017, Trondheim, Norway. Elsevier, 2017. p. 75-80 (Energy procedia; Vol. 132).

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