Control of thermal accummulative panels as active elements of heat accummulation in laboratory of intelligent building

Abstract

There was installed a laboratory system with the controlled thermal accumulation possibility for the purpose of simulation methods evaluation, in Faculty of Applied Informatics, UTB in Zlin. The whole system employs a progressive elements for electricity production, heating and cooling. The system is going through the tests at present. The systems consists of thermal accumulative panels with active heating a cooling means - photovoltaic panels. The communication of the control system used is based on LONworks field bus with PID controllers with adjustable individual parameters. The controlled thermal accumulation properties could substantially decrease the energy consumption for heating and cooling and to utilize the renewable source of energy (thermal pumps, solar energy etc.). The system as designed could be used as a experimental base for the above described application testing a validating the results of computer simulation of the complicated thermal systems.