Plug and play process control of a district heating system

The main idea of plug and play process control is to initialise and reconfigure control systems automatically. In this paper these ideas are applied to a scaled laboratory model of a district heating pressure control system. First of all this serves as a concrete example of plug and play control, secondly some of the first techniques developed for these problems are demonstrated by experiments. The main emphasis is on incremental modelling and control in order to make it possible to “plug” in a new sensor or actuator and make it “play” automatically.