Ultra-precision temperature control of circulating cooling water based on fuzzy-PID algorithm

Abstract

Thermal pollution is one of the most urgent issues in the fields of ultra-precision measurement and manufacturing, which presents the demand of producing ultra-precision circulating cooling water (CCW) with the temperature stability up to millikelvin level and response time at hundred-second level. In this paper, an ultra-precision CCW producing method based on model identification and fuzzy-PID control is proposed and illustrated. A structure of circulating water loop with ultra-precision temperature control is proposed. A cooling module using of thermoelectric cooling device arrays as refrigerator and a heating module using electrical heating-tubes as heater are employed. A control algorithm based on fuzzy-PID is designed, and a variety of model identification experiments has been carried out to extract key parameters of the modules. Experimental results show that a temperature stability up to ±3mK is achieved, the temperature control resolution is better than 5mK, and the adjusting time of 1K step is 128s, satisfying the urgent need of ultra-precision measurement and manufacturing.