Classifications

• • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
  • F24—HEATING; RANGES; VENTILATING
  • F24D—DOMESTIC- OR SPACE-HEATING SYSTEMS, e.g. CENTRAL HEATING SYSTEMS; DOMESTIC HOT-WATER SUPPLY SYSTEMS; ELEMENTS OR COMPONENTS THEREFOR
  • F24D19/00—Details
  • F24D19/10—Arrangement or mounting of control or safety devices
  • F24D19/1006—Arrangement or mounting of control or safety devices for water heating systems
  • F24D19/1009—Arrangement or mounting of control or safety devices for water heating systems for central heating
• • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
  • F24—HEATING; RANGES; VENTILATING
  • F24F—AIR-CONDITIONING; AIR-HUMIDIFICATION; VENTILATION; USE OF AIR CURRENTS FOR SCREENING
  • F24F11/00—Control or safety arrangements
  • F24F11/70—Control systems characterised by their outputs; Constructional details thereof
  • F24F11/80—Control systems characterised by their outputs; Constructional details thereof for controlling the temperature of the supplied air
  • F24F11/83—Control systems characterised by their outputs; Constructional details thereof for controlling the temperature of the supplied air by controlling the supply of heat-exchange fluids to heat-exchangers
• • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
  • F24—HEATING; RANGES; VENTILATING
  • F24F—AIR-CONDITIONING; AIR-HUMIDIFICATION; VENTILATION; USE OF AIR CURRENTS FOR SCREENING
  • F24F11/00—Control or safety arrangements
  • F24F11/70—Control systems characterised by their outputs; Constructional details thereof
  • F24F11/80—Control systems characterised by their outputs; Constructional details thereof for controlling the temperature of the supplied air
  • F24F11/83—Control systems characterised by their outputs; Constructional details thereof for controlling the temperature of the supplied air by controlling the supply of heat-exchange fluids to heat-exchangers
  • F24F11/84—Control systems characterised by their outputs; Constructional details thereof for controlling the temperature of the supplied air by controlling the supply of heat-exchange fluids to heat-exchangers using valves
• • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
  • F24—HEATING; RANGES; VENTILATING
  • F24F—AIR-CONDITIONING; AIR-HUMIDIFICATION; VENTILATION; USE OF AIR CURRENTS FOR SCREENING
  • F24F11/00—Control or safety arrangements
  • F24F11/62—Control or safety arrangements characterised by the type of control or by internal processing, e.g. using fuzzy logic, adaptive control or estimation of values
  • F24F11/63—Electronic processing

Definitions

• the invention relates to a method for heating and / or cooling a building, wherein a heating or cooling means is tempered with at least one heat and / or cold generator and wherein the heating or cooling medium is passed through heating lines through rooms of the building.
• the invention also relates to a device for carrying out this method. Tempering means heating and / or cooling.
• the inventive method and the device according to the invention is particularly preferably used for heating a building. Therefore, reference will be made below primarily to the heating of the structure. However, it is also within the scope of the invention that the method according to the invention and the device according to the invention for cooling a building are suitable. In particular, the method according to the invention or the device according to the invention also offers the possibility of switching from the heating mode to the cooling mode and vice versa. Below and in the claims is therefore meant by means of heating and coolant, with heat generator and cold generator meant meant with heat pipe and cooling line and meant with heating zone and cooling zone, etc.
• the heating medium used is preferably a fluid medium and preferably water, which is heated by means of the heat generator and is passed through the heating cables in the spaces of the building.
• the heating cables in particular a flat heating or cooling system is realized in the building.
• the invention the technical problem of providing a method of the type mentioned above, with a targeted demand-oriented and energy-optimized heat supply of the individual rooms of a building is possible.
• the invention is furthermore based on the technical problem of specifying a device for carrying out this method.
• the invention teaches a method for heating and / or cooling a building, wherein a heating or cooling means is tempered with at least one heat and / or cold generator, wherein the heating or cooling means via lines through rooms of the Building is directed the building having one or more tempering zones, wherein a tempering zone is assigned at least one space of the building, wherein a zone control device is provided for each tempering zone and wherein the heating or cooling agent quantity supplied to each room of the building is controlled or regulated in dependence on a plurality of predeterminable room parameters and / or measurable room parameters with the zone control device assigned to the room and / or the heating or coolant temperature of the heating or cooling medium supplied to this space is controlled and / or regulated as a function of a plurality of predefinable room parameters and / or measurable room parameters.
• Heating or coolant temperature means the temperature of the heating or cooling medium supplied to the rooms. It is within the scope of the invention that the heating or coolant temperature is controlled and / or regulated by cooperation or by coordination of the zone control devices with a central control device. This will be explained below.
• a heat pump is used as a heat and / or cold generator. It is within the scope of the invention that the heat pump is assigned in a conventional manner, a compressor.
• the invention preferably relates to a method for heating a building, wherein a heating means is heated with at least one heat generator, wherein the heating means is passed through heating lines through rooms of the building, wherein the building has one or more heating zones, wherein a heating zone at least a room is assigned, wherein for each heating zone a zone control device is provided and wherein the space supplied amount of heating or cooling agent is controlled or regulated in dependence on a plurality of predetermined and / or measurable room parameters with the associated zone control device and / or the heating medium temperature is controlled and / or regulated as a function of a plurality of predefinable room parameters and / or measurable room parameters.
• the structure is divided into a plurality of heating zones.
• the heating medium used is preferably water, which is heated by means of the heat generator and passed through the heating pipes of the building. It is recommended that the individual rooms of the building each have at least one separate heating circuit, which is also controlled and / or regulated separately from the associated zone control device.
• Lines or heating cables according to one embodiment, pipes or heating pipes. With lines or heating cables but also in particular surface by the heating medium flowed through heating elements are meant.
• a very preferred embodiment of the invention is characterized in that heating cables or underfloor heating pipes are used as heating cables.
• the application of the method or the device according to the invention for a floor heating is particularly preferred. It is recommended that the individual rooms of the building each have at least one separate floor heating circuit may be separately controlled and / or regulated with the associated zone control device.
• the invention is not limited to underfloor heating.
• heating systems in particular heating pipes or areal flowed through heating elements.
• These heating systems can be installed according to a variant in a load-bearing construction and load distribution layer (for example screed).
• the heating systems can according to another embodiment but also on, before or under a supporting structure (floor, wall or ceiling) can be used.
• the heating medium supply is controlled and / or regulated separately for each individual room as a function of the room parameters with a zone control device.
• Control or regulation of the heating means supply here means, in particular, the control or regulation of the quantity of heating medium supplied to the respective room or the quantity of heating medium supplied in the time unit.
• each room of the building or the heating circuit of each room a shut-off and / or control element for the heating medium supply, preferably associated with a valve for the heating medium supply.
• each valve is actuated via an actuator. By this actuation of the valve, the opening width of the valve and thus the amount of heating medium supplied to the space in the time unit can be controlled or regulated.
• a room may also be assigned a plurality of heating circuits.
• the heating circuits can be arranged differently, ie in the floor and / or in at least one room wall and / or in the ceiling.
• the number of heating circuits is expediently selected as a function of the respective room size.
• a zone control device for a heating zone of the building, this heating zone consists of several rooms.
• the zone control device has control units or channels, which are each assigned to a room.
• each control unit is expediently set according to the predeterminable and / or measurable room parameters assigned to the respective room.
• Specifiable room parameters means, in particular, room parameters that are entered by an operator / user. It is within the scope of the invention that each control unit of a zone control device for controlling or regulating the heating medium supply of each room preferably associated with separate heating circuit is provided.
• each room of a building is assigned a room priority as a predeterminable room parameters.
• the room priority is in particular dependent on the predetermined daily room setpoint temperature of the room and / or depending on the daily heating time or usage time of this room. The higher the given daily set room temperature of the room and / or the higher the daily heating time or usage time of this room, the higher is the room priority or the category of the room priority of this room.
• a living room or dining room may be assigned the highest room priority or category, a bathroom room or office room of the second highest room priority or category, and a bedroom or guest room only the third highest room priority or category.
• the graded categories of the room priority are preferably individually adjustable and parameterizable for the individual rooms.
• the supplied amount of heating medium of the respective room is preferably controlled with the zone control device assigned to this room or with the corresponding control unit of this zone control device and / or regulated.
• the heating medium temperature for this room is preferably controlled and / or regulated as a function of the predeterminable room parameter of the room priority.
• each room is assigned a predefinable room parameter, which is dependent on the heat storage capacity of the material penetrated by the heating pipes in this room.
• this predeterminable room parameter therefore depends on the heat storage capacity of the material or substrate penetrated by the underfloor heating pipes. Depending on the heat storage capacity of the material, this room parameter corresponds to a specific category.
• a screed layer having a thickness of 65 mm and having a relatively high heat storage capacity is assigned the highest category
• a screed layer having a thickness of 45 mm and a slightly lower heat storage capacity is assigned to the second highest category
• a fiber cement having a thickness of 25 mm and an even lower heat storage capacity is assigned to a third category.
• Corresponding categories can also be assigned to a room ceiling or a room wall as a function of the heat storage capacity of the material penetrated by the heating pipes.
• the quantity of heating medium supplied to the respective room is expediently controlled and / or regulated with the zone control device assigned to this room or with the corresponding control unit of this zone control device.
• the heating medium temperature for this room is preferably controlled and / or regulated as a function of this specifiable room parameter or of the category.
• this predeterminable room parameter or the category can be adjusted according to a change in the material penetrated by the heating cables.
• each room is assigned a predefinable room parameter, which depends on the thermal conductivity of the covering on the penetrated by the heating cables material (floor, wall or ceiling).
• this covering is thus a floor covering.
• Flooring here means a covering on screed or on a corresponding surface.
• the floor covering may be in particular a covering of tiles, natural stone, plastic or wood.
• the floor covering may also be a carpet.
• each room is assigned a corresponding specifiable room parameter or a category. Tiles as a floor covering, for example, have a higher thermal conductivity than a plastic floor covering.
• this predeterminable room parameter is correspondingly adaptable when changing or when changing the covering or floor covering. It is recommended that the quantity of heating medium supplied to the relevant room be controlled and / or regulated as a function of this room parameter (category) with the zone control device assigned to this room or with the corresponding control unit of this zone control device. It is also recommended that depending on this room parameter (category) the heating medium temperature for this room be controlled and / or regulated.
• a zone control device has a plurality of control units or channels, which are each assigned to a single room, wherein the respective rooms of the heating zone belong to this zone control device. It is furthermore within the scope of the invention that measurable room parameters and predeterminable room parameters for the respective room are supplied to an input of a control unit and that the control unit controls the supplied heating medium quantity for this room or a valve for the heating medium supply of this room as a function of these supplied room parameters and / or regulates. In addition, the heating medium temperature of this room is suitably controlled and / or regulated by interaction or coordination of zone control device and central control device as a function of these control parameters of the control unit supplied room parameters.
• a zone control device with x control units is provided for the control and / or regulation of the heating medium supply for x spaces (one heating zone).
• the zone control device preferably has a microprocessor and preferably at least a part of the supplied room parameters can be stored in the zone control device.
• a zone control device or the control units of a zone control device be supplied with both measurable room parameters and predefinable room parameters.
• a feedable measurable room parameter is in particular the room actual temperature in a room. The measurement of the actual room temperature is preferably carried out via a room thermostat located in the room. Another feedable measurable room parameter is furthermore the return temperature of the heating circuit assigned to the respective room.
• an additional measurable room parameter that can be supplied is the flow temperature of the heating circuit assigned to the room.
• all rooms or all heating circuits of a heating zone have the same flow temperature. It is also within the scope of Invention that all heating zones can have the same flow temperature.
• another feedable measurable room parameter is the outside temperature outside the building. It is within the scope of the invention that, in coordination with this outside temperature, the flow temperature is calculated according to a heating characteristic, with further room parameters being included in this calculation.
• An additional deliverable measurable room parameter may be the measured room humidity, this room parameter being particularly relevant when the method according to the invention is used for cooling.
• a deliverable measurable room parameter is a sudden, abrupt temperature drop in the particular room that can be detected via a room thermostat located in the room. This abrupt drop in temperature is evaluated in particular as the opening of a window in the room and depending on this room parameter, the heating medium supply is reduced or preferably interrupted.
• the transition to the normal heating case is then expediently only after the actual room temperature in the room, due to the afterheating, rises again and preferably the room set temperature is not reached yet.
• Afterheating means the aftereffect of the heat stored in the heating system.
• Another deliverable measurable room parameter may be a presence signal that signals the presence of a person via a presence sensor located in the room, and accordingly, the amount of heating medium supplied and / or the heater temperature for that room may be controlled and / or regulated.
• a control unit of a zone control device the room actual temperature and / or the return temperature of the room heating circuit and / or the flow temperature of the room heating circuit and / or the outside temperature and / or the room humidity and / or an abrupt temperature drop and / or a presence signal as measurable room parameters are supplied.
• predeterminable room parameters can be supplied. These predeterminable room parameters are expediently entered manually.
• a predeterminable room parameter that can be fed to the zone controller is the desired room setpoint temperature. This desired room temperature is preferably input manually to a room thermostat present in the respective room or to an operating / display unit present in the room.
• room thermostat is used above and below is thus preferably also quite generally meant a control and / or display unit, in addition to the detection of the room temperature and / or the specification of the desired room temperature also fulfills other functions, such as (further) display functions (eg time, date and the like) and / or the possibility of carrying out further parameterizations.
• Other predeterminable room parameters which can be fed to the zone control device are preferably the room priority (category of room priority) and / or the heat storage capacity of the material penetrated by the heating lines in the room (category of heat storage capacity) and / or the thermal conductivity of the floor covering or room (category of the room) thermal conductivity).
• both the category of the room priority and the category of heat storage capacity and the category of thermal conductivity of the zone control device or a control unit of the zone control device are supplied as a predeterminable room parameters. These space parameters are expediently entered manually at the zone control device.
• further room parameters which can be supplied to the zone control device are the thermal insulation or category of the thermal insulation of the room and / or the tightness or the category of the tightness of the room.
• a predeterminable room parameters of the zone control device can also be Switching time from NormalCloud vulgar thought to the so-called Absenkmodus and / or the so-called holiday mode and vice versa are supplied.
• Absenkmodus and vacation mode means in particular an operation with reduced heating power, especially during the night or during vacation periods. It is recommended that the control unit of a zone control device as a predeterminable room parameters of a room, the desired room temperature and / or the category of room priority and / or the category of heat storage capacity and / or the category of thermal conductivity of the flooring and / or the category of thermal insulation of the room and / or the category of the tightness of the room and / or a switching time Normalterrorism horrus / holiday mode and vice versa are supplied. In response to these supplied predetermined room parameters, the control and / or regulation of the supplied amount of heating medium and / or the heating medium temperature for this room then takes place.
• predeterminable room parameters can be fed to an input of the control unit assigned to the respective room of a zone controller. It is also within the scope of the invention that these supplied predetermined spatial parameters in the zone control device or in the control unit are stored.
• the control unit of the zone control device controls or regulates the quantity of heating medium supplied to the respective room preferably continuously and preferably fully automatically.
• a valve assigned to the heating circuit of the relevant room for the heating medium supply or an actuator of this valve is expediently controlled by an output of the control unit.
• the opening width of the valve is influenced and so can the volume flow of the heating circuit this Room supplied heating medium can be adjusted.
• This allows a very specific control of the heating medium supply for the individual rooms and thus an optimal adaptation to the energy requirements of the individual rooms.
• preferably, depending on the measurable and predeterminable room parameters by interaction or coordination of zone control device and central control device and the heating medium temperature for the room in question expediently continuously and preferably fully automatically controlled and / or regulated.
• a continuous comparison with the measured room actual temperature of this room is performed and that the supplied amount of heating medium and / or the heating medium temperature adjusted for this room accordingly becomes.
• This adjustment is preferably carried out continuously and preferably fully automatically.
• the adjustment described above or the adjustment described above is expediently carried out for all rooms of the building in each case.
• the zones associated with the heating zones control devices are connected to a central control device and the Kirschmenge and / or the Schuffentemperatur of the zone control devices or the distributors of the zone control devices supplied heating medium is controlled and / or regulated by the central control device.
• Each zone controller is expediently associated with a distributor, which takes over the distribution of the heating means or the amount of heating medium to the heating circuits of the individual rooms.
• the central control device is responsible for the amount of heating medium and / or the heating medium temperature of the heating means supplied to the zone control devices or their distributors.
• This central control device expediently has a processor and is suitable for the storage of predefinable parameters.
• the central control device controls and / or regulates the heat generator, in particular the preferably used heat pump or the compressor of the heat pump.
• the volume flow and / or the temperature of the heating means supplied to the zone control devices or the distributors of the zone control devices is controlled and / or regulated in this way.
• This control and / or regulation takes place depending on the Schuffen catheter the individual heating zones. If a reduction or an increase in the energy requirement occurs in at least one heating zone (with associated zone control device), this information is expediently reported to the central control device and the central control device performs a comparison with the other zone control devices, which preferably takes place automatically.
• the central control device controls the heat generator, preferably the compressor of the heat pump with the proviso that a higher power of the heat generator and the compressor of the heat pump results. If a reduction in energy consumption occurs in at least one heating zone and as a result reduces the difference between flow temperature and return temperature at the relevant distributor of the heating zone below the predetermined setpoint, this information is reported to the central control device and preferably by the central control device, a comparison with the rest zone controllers.
• a power adjustment of the heat generator or the compressor of the heat pump is caused by the central control device. If, in the opposite case, the difference between flow temperature and return temperature at least one distributor of a zone control device rises above the predetermined setpoint, appropriately via the central control device a corresponding power adjustment or an increase in the performance of the heat generator or the compressor of the heat pump and that until reaching the predetermined setpoint.
• the central control device connected to the zone control devices controls and / or regulates the heat generator, in particular the preferably used heat pump or the heat pump, with the proviso that the power of the heat generator or the temperature level of the heat generator is as low as possible is held. Thereafter, there is an interaction or interaction between the central control device and zone control devices with the proviso or with the aim to keep the power of the heat generator or the temperature level on which this works as low as possible.
• the invention is based on the finding that a particularly efficient operation can be ensured in this way.
• the temperature of the heating means is kept as low as possible, wherein the Realization of this goal, the mass flow or Schuschstrom can be increased to supply the individual rooms.
• the basis of the power control and / or temperature control of the heat generator or the compressor of the heat pump preferably form preset variable heating characteristics for the flow temperature. These heating characteristics are preferably formed as a function of the outside temperature and as a function of a further variable variable.
• the aforementioned further variable size is preferably calculated from the room parameters or from the determined requirements of the rooms and the heating zones.
• the monitoring of the flow and return temperatures influenced by the heat generator or by the compressor of the heat pump takes place via the central control device with the aid of sensors at predetermined points in the heating water circuit of the heat generator or the heat pump.
• the data communication between the room thermostats of the individual rooms and the associated zone control devices preferably takes place via a data bus.
• the data communication between the zone control devices and the central control device is routed via a data bus.
• the aforementioned data communications can also be wireless.
• the central control device also takes over the regulation of hot water.
• the invention also relates to a device for carrying out the method according to the invention, wherein the device comprises a heat generator, preferably a heat pump, and a central control device controlling the heat generator, and furthermore a plurality of zone control devices connected to the central control device is provided and wherein guided through the rooms of the building heating cables are available.
• the device comprises a heat generator, preferably a heat pump, and a central control device controlling the heat generator, and furthermore a plurality of zone control devices connected to the central control device is provided and wherein guided through the rooms of the building heating cables are available.
• the invention is based on the finding that, according to the invention, optimal energy use or optimized energy generation is ensured.
• the invention is based in particular on the knowledge that with the method according to the invention and with the device according to the invention, a very specific demand-oriented energy supply of the individual rooms of a building can be regulated in an energy-optimized manner.
• the relevant room parameters of each room are inventively included and evaluated.
• the provision of heating energy is based on the actual momentary requirements of the rooms to be supplied.
• the actual demand for heating heat in the individual rooms can be determined precisely with the method according to the invention and converted into an energy-optimized power adaptation of the energy generator or heat generator.
• both an effective energy supply of the individual rooms is achieved as well as a simple optimum power adjustment of the energy generator or heat generator.
• the method according to the invention or the device according to the invention can be realized with relatively simple and inexpensive means.
• a more efficient energy-optimized heating or cooling operation is achieved in a relatively inexpensive and simple manner.
• the invention is particularly advantageous for a floor heating used and especially for underfloor heating, which cooperates with a heat pump for heat generation.
• the energy supply of a room is not achieved in particular with a short-term at elevated temperature level reheating, but preferably with the aid of a predetermined time from the parameters of the respective room with a preferably low temperature level of the heating medium. It is expediently desired to determine an optimized period by regulating and determining the specific room parameters, in which it is possible to ensure the desired room temperature set by the user at a time predetermined by him with the lowest heating medium temperature.
• the measures known from the prior art also normally operate with a room control which is separate from the generator control.
• the corresponding components are often supplied by different manufacturers.
• the coordination of the spatial regulation and the producer regulation therefore leaves much to be desired.
• the space requirements are evaluated and ultimately it can be achieved that the heat generator can be operated in an optimized range.
• a combined space and generator control is preferably carried out according to the invention.

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