Practical Solution for Temperature Control for Inertial Object

Abstract:

The issue of temperature control in the research devices is well known and well described in the literature. Yet in the practical applications, in every-day engineering practice there are situations where theoretical knowledge is not applicable in a straight forward manner and the proper settings of the controller parameters constitutes a problem to be addressed and solved with and individual approach. This article presents an example of commissioning of a heated test chamber that is a part of a research apparatus for testing the erosive wear of materials, developed and built at the Institute for Sustainable Technologies – National Research Institute in Radom.The test apparatus is used for eroding the surface of the tested sample with a stream of a mixture of air and an abrasive medium. The test can be performed in room temperature and in raised temperature, both for the ambient of the sample as well as for the air used to make a mixture. The maximal temperature allowed in the machine is 600°C, so the test chamber is equipped with a hermetic door and heat insulation. The construction of the chamber makes it very inertial in terms of heating and cooling, which makes the temperature control a bit challenging.The system is controlled with a PLC with software PID controller implemented in Temperature Controller library. The use of standard set-up of PID parameters resulted in heating with significant overshoot and long settling time which was unacceptable. Trials to tune the parameters with use of built-in algorithm resulted in slower heating and still didn’t eliminate the overshoot. The literature research and tests were performed to identify the problem and to implement simple solution.The article presents the selected results of the literature research and details on the performed tests. The algorithm of the final solution is presented and the characteristics of the heating process after the modification of the control algorithm. The final solution of the issue is an algorithm that uses the standard available temperature controller and the temperature monitor to influence the actions of the controller. The difficulties in identification of the control object (the chamber) caused the inability to solve the problem analytically, but the practical and empirical approach and several trials and errors allowed for the almost optimal control characteristics, which allows no overshoot and as fast as possible heating of the object.

• Periodical: Solid State Phenomena (Volume 251)
• Pages: 146-151
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/SSP.251.146
• Online since: July 2016
• Authors: Jordan Mężyk*
• Keywords: Heating Chamber, PID Controller, Programmable Logic Controller, Temperature Control, Test Equipment

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