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9780419209805

HVAC Control Systems: Modelling, Analysis and Design

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  • ISBN13:

    9780419209805

  • ISBN10:

    0419209808

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1999-01-29
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

HVAC Control Systemsbridges the gap between classical automatic control and process control and HVAC control. The book examines in particular the current developments in intelligent HVAC control.

Author Biography

C. P. Underwood is Reader in the Department of the Built Environment, University of Northumbria at Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.

Table of Contents

Preface ix
Acknowledgements xi
HVAC control systems
1(33)
Basic concepts
1(3)
HVAC control strategies
4(17)
Distributed control
21(5)
System configuration
26(8)
References
31(3)
Device technology
34(44)
Sensors
34(15)
Control elements
49(23)
PID (proportional/integral/derivative) controllers
72(6)
References
76(2)
System modelling
78(39)
Simple room modelling for control analysis
78(5)
Accounting for fabric in room modelling
83(10)
Heat emitter and non-linear modelling
93(4)
A coupled room and emitter model
97(10)
Component modelling
107(10)
References
115(2)
System stability
117(44)
Feedback control
117(9)
Stability tests
126(19)
Feedforward control
145(6)
Model reduction
151(10)
References
159(2)
Discrete-time systems
161(35)
The z-transform
161(1)
Representing discrete-time systems
161(5)
Stability tests in discrete-time systems
166(11)
The sampling interval
177(5)
Digital control algorithms
182(14)
References
194(2)
Multivariable control
196(36)
State-space representation of systems
196(4)
The transfer function matrix
200(1)
The multivariable control problem
201(17)
Design of multivariable compensators
218(14)
References
230(2)
System identification and controller tuning
232(32)
System identification
232(13)
Assessing the quality of response
245(2)
Fixed-parameter controller tuning methods
247(17)
References
262(2)
Adaptive control
264(27)
Adaptive controllers
264(1)
Direct and indirect adaptive control algorithms
265(14)
Model-reference adaptive control
279(5)
Gain scheduling
284(2)
Progress in HVAC adaptive control
286(5)
References
288(3)
Advanced methods
291(41)
Robust control
291(9)
Expert systems
300(1)
Fuzzy logic control
301(10)
Artificial neural networks
311(21)
References
328(4)
Index 332

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