<div dir="ltr">I recommend that you first consider using a different Type of cooling coil that does internal flow control calculations (such as Type508c).<div><br></div><div>PID controllers are useful in real machines, where things may change every millisecond. In simulations with reasonable timesteps of 1 minute or longer, PI controllers, or even just proportional controllers should be enough.</div><div><br></div><div>There is also an iterative controller (Type 22), which will slow the model down, but is capable of controlling as you would expect a real PID to behave.</div><div><br></div><div>I have also had some luck in TRNSYS using simple feed-forward type controls, where you predict the output using a simple equation then adjust that output with a proportional controller. For example:</div><div>control signal = predicted signal f(input 1, input 2) + adjustment f(actual result - desired result)</div><div><br></div><div>Ben Heymer. PE</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 10:01 PM, 何磊 <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:swjtuhl822@126.com" target="_blank">swjtuhl822@126.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="line-height:1.7;color:#000000;font-size:14px;font-family:Arial"><div>Hi everyone,</div><div>I have encountered some problems when the PID controller(type23) was used for controling the outlet air temperature of cooling coil.</div><div><br></div><div>The fluid flow rate of cooling coil is conected with a outlet of flow diverter(type11), the fluid flow rate of cooling coil is determined by the control signal of the flow diverter. It is in order to model a cooling cooling with a bypass in fluid side.</div><div><br></div><div>Then, the PID control is used for keeping the outlet air temperature (Controlled variable) of cooling coil at a setpoint, the control signal is the fluid proportion of the flow diverter. </div><div><br></div><div>But no matter how to adjust the parameters of PID, the outlet air temperature oscillation cann't be eliminated.</div><div><br></div><div>so, I have two questions about this simulation.</div><div><br></div><div>1)How to determine the parameters of PID controller, sunch as Gain constant, Integral time and Derivative time, to avoid Controlled variable oscillation ? </div><div><br></div><div>2)is there some regular between the simulation time step and the parameters ? </div><div><br></div><div>If anyone has experience in this respect, could please tell me how to choose the simulation time step and the PID parameters ?</div></div><br><br><span title="neteasefooter"><span></span></span><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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