Rapid development of an aircraft cabin temperature regulation concept
Alexander Pollok, D.J. Bender, Ines Kerling, Dirk Zimmer · Linköping electronic conference proceedings · 2017
The air in aircraft cabins is controlled for pressure, temperature and humidity.The number of temperature zones is generally kept low, for reasons of necessary ducting space.We devise a new ducting concept, which enables a large number of temperature zones.Controllability of the system is however predicted to be a potential obstacle.For a quick resolution of this question, a Modelica model is created.Model creation is focused on a short development time as well as usefulness for controller synthesis.A workflow is presented that enables a quick iteration time between controller synthesis in Matlab and controller testing in a Modelica environment.Finally, the impact of this new concept on the energy consumption of the air generation unit is discussed.