Controller for a radiant heating system.
The controller tracks the room temperature set point TRooSet
by
adjusting the supply water temperature set point TSupSet
linearly between
TSupSetMin
and TSupSetMax
based on the output signal y
of the proportional controller.
The pump is either off or operates at full speed, in which case yPum = 1
.
The pump control is based on a hysteresis that switches the pump on when the output of the
proportional controller y
exceeds 0.2, and the pump is commanded off when the output falls
below 0.1. See figure below for the control charts.
For systems with high thermal mass, this controller should be left configured as a P-controller, which is the default setting. PI-controller likely saturate due to the slow system response.