Buildings.Electrical.Utilities

Model representing a voltage controller that unplugs a load when its voltage is outside of the accepted thresholds.

Name	Description
VoltageControl	Voltage controller
Controllers	Package that contains state machines and control models used by the utilities
Examples	This package contais tests for check the correctness of the models

The model contains a finite state machine controller that detects voltage deviations. If the voltage input V exceeds the nominal value V_nominal by more than 1+V_tr then the control signal y becomes zero for a period t = tDelay. If after this period the voltage is still higher than the thresholds the output remains equal to zero. The model has a parameter T that represents the time constant associated to the electrical switch. This time constant is used to parametrize a first order filter that represents such a dynamic effect. The presence of the first order filter avoids that the output of the finite state machine controller are differentiated (causing runtime errors).

Parameters

Connectors

Modelica definition

Type	Name	Default	Description
replaceable package PhaseSystem	Buildings.Electrical.PhaseSy...	Phase system
Voltage	V_nominal		Nominal voltage of the node to be controlled [V]
Real	vThresh	0.1	Threshold that activates voltage ctrl (ratio of nominal voltage)
Time	tDelay	300	Time to wait before plugging the load back [s]
Time	T	0.01	Time constant representing the switching time [s]
Real	y_start	1.0	Initial value of the control output signal
Terminal	terminal	redeclare Buildings.Electric...	Generalized terminal

Type	Name	Description
replaceable package PhaseSystem	Phase system
output RealOutput	y	Control signal
Terminal	terminal	Generalized terminal

model VoltageControl "Voltage controller" replaceable package PhaseSystem = Buildings.Electrical.PhaseSystems.PartialPhaseSystem constrainedby Buildings.Electrical.PhaseSystems.PartialPhaseSystem "Phase system"; parameter Modelica.SIunits.Voltage V_nominal "Nominal voltage of the node to be controlled"; parameter Real vThresh(min=0.0, max=1.0) = 0.1 "Threshold that activates voltage ctrl (ratio of nominal voltage)"; parameter Modelica.SIunits.Time tDelay = 300 "Time to wait before plugging the load back"; parameter Modelica.SIunits.Time T = 0.01 "Time constant representing the switching time"; parameter Real y_start = 1.0 "Initial value of the control output signal"; final parameter Modelica.SIunits.Voltage Vmin = V_nominal*(1-vThresh) "Low threshold"; final parameter Modelica.SIunits.Voltage Vmax = V_nominal*(1+vThresh) "High threshold"; Modelica.Blocks.Interfaces.RealOutput y(start = y_start, stateSelect = StateSelect.prefer) "Control signal"; replaceable Buildings.Electrical.Interfaces.Terminal terminal( redeclare replaceable package PhaseSystem = PhaseSystem) "Generalized terminal"; Buildings.Electrical.Utilities.Controllers.StateMachineVoltCtrl ctrl( V_nominal=V_nominal, vThresh=vThresh, tDelay=tDelay) "Model that implements the state machines voltage controller"; initial equation y = y_start; equation // Output of the control block y + T*der(y) = ctrl.y; // Voltage measurements ctrl.V = terminal.PhaseSystem.systemVoltage(terminal.v); // The controller does not consume current terminal.i = zeros(PhaseSystem.n); end VoltageControl;