Thermostat, the Glossary
A thermostat is a regulating device component which senses the temperature of a physical system and performs actions so that the system's temperature is maintained near a desired setpoint.[1]
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104 relations: Air conditioning, Albert Butz, Alternating current, Ampere, Ancient Greek, Andrew Ure, Archimedes' screw, Attic, Automation, Bang–bang control, Baseboard, Basement, Bimetal, Bimetallic strip, Boiler, Building automation, Central heating, Chemical waste, Chiller, Clock, Clockwise, Closed-loop controller, Closet, Comfort, Coolant, Cornelis Drebbel, Degree (temperature), Digital data, Direct digital control, Electric battery, Electric current, Electrical code, Energy conservation, Energy harvesting, Fan (machine), Feedback, Forced-air, Heat, Heat exchanger, Heat pump, Heating element, Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning, Home automation, Honeywell, Hysteresis, Illusion of control, Incubator (culture), Incubator (egg), Internal combustion engine, Legionella, ... Expand index (54 more) »
- 17th-century inventions
- Temperature control
Air conditioning
Air conditioning, often abbreviated as A/C (US) or air con (UK), is the process of removing heat from an enclosed space to achieve a more comfortable interior temperature (sometimes referred to as 'comfort cooling') and in some cases also strictly controlling the humidity of internal air. Thermostat and air conditioning are American inventions and Dutch inventions.
See Thermostat and Air conditioning
Albert Butz
Albert Butz (1849–1905) was a Swiss-born American inventor and businessman who founded the Butz Thermo-electric Regulator Company that, through a series of re-organizations, name changes, and mergers, became Honeywell, Incorporated.
See Thermostat and Albert Butz
Alternating current
Alternating current (AC) is an electric current that periodically reverses direction and changes its magnitude continuously with time, in contrast to direct current (DC), which flows only in one direction.
See Thermostat and Alternating current
Ampere
The ampere (symbol: A), often shortened to amp,SI supports only the use of symbols and deprecates the use of abbreviations for units.
Ancient Greek
Ancient Greek (Ἑλληνῐκή) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC.
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Andrew Ure
Andrew Ure FRS (18 May 1778 – 2 January 1857) was a Scottish physician, chemist, scriptural geologist, and early business theorist who founded the Garnet Hill Observatory.
Archimedes' screw
The Archimedes' screw, also known as the Archimedean screw, hydrodynamic screw, water screw or Egyptian screw, is one of the earliest hydraulic machines named after Greek mathematician Archimedes who first described it around 234 BC, although the device had been used in Ancient Egypt.
See Thermostat and Archimedes' screw
Attic
An attic (sometimes referred to as a loft) is a space found directly below the pitched roof of a house or other building.
Automation
Automation describes a wide range of technologies that reduce human intervention in processes, mainly by predetermining decision criteria, subprocess relationships, and related actions, as well as embodying those predeterminations in machines.
Bang–bang control
In control theory, a bang–bang controller (hysteresis, 2 step or on–off controller), is a feedback controller that switches abruptly between two states.
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Baseboard
In architecture, a baseboard (also called skirting board, skirting, wainscoting, mopboard, trim, floor molding, or base molding) is usually wooden, MDF or vinyl board covering the lowest part of an interior wall.
Basement
A basement or cellar is one or more floors of a building that are completely or partly below the ground floor.
Bimetal refers to an object that is composed of two separate metals joined together.
A bimetallic strip or bimetal strip is a strip that consists of two strips of different metals which expand at different rates as they are heated.
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Boiler
A boiler is a closed vessel in which fluid (generally water) is heated.
Building automation
Building automation (BAS), also known as building management system (BMS) or building energy management system (BEMS), is the automatic centralized control of a building's HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning), electrical, lighting, shading, access control, security systems, and other interrelated systems.
See Thermostat and Building automation
Central heating
A central heating system provides warmth to a number of spaces within a building from one main source of heat.
See Thermostat and Central heating
Chemical waste
Chemical waste is any excess, unused, or unwanted chemical.
See Thermostat and Chemical waste
Chiller
A chiller is a machine that removes heat from a liquid coolant via a vapor-compression, adsorption refrigeration, or absorption refrigeration cycles.
Clock
A clock or chronometer is a device that measures and displays time.
Clockwise
Two-dimensional rotation can occur in two possible directions or senses of rotation.
Closed-loop controller
A closed-loop controller or feedback controller is a control loop which incorporates feedback, in contrast to an open-loop controller or non-feedback controller.
See Thermostat and Closed-loop controller
Closet
A closet (especially in North American English usage) is an enclosed space, with a door, used for storage, particularly that of clothes.
Comfort
Comfort (or being comfortable) is a sense of physical or psychological ease, often characterised as a lack of hardship.
Coolant
A coolant is a substance, typically liquid, that is used to reduce or regulate the temperature of a system.
Cornelis Drebbel
Cornelis Jacobszoon Drebbel (1572 – 7 November 1633) was a Dutch engineer and inventor.
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Degree (temperature)
The term degree is used in several scales of temperature, with the notable exception of kelvin, primary unit of temperature for engineering and the physical sciences.
See Thermostat and Degree (temperature)
Digital data
Digital data, in information theory and information systems, is information represented as a string of discrete symbols, each of which can take on one of only a finite number of values from some alphabet, such as letters or digits.
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Direct digital control
Direct digital control is the automated control of a condition or process by a digital device (computer).
See Thermostat and Direct digital control
Electric battery
An electric battery is a source of electric power consisting of one or more electrochemical cells with external connections for powering electrical devices.
See Thermostat and Electric battery
Electric current
An electric current is a flow of charged particles, such as electrons or ions, moving through an electrical conductor or space.
See Thermostat and Electric current
Electrical code
An electrical code is a set of regulations for the design and installation of electrical wiring in a building.
See Thermostat and Electrical code
Energy conservation
Energy conservation is the effort to reduce wasteful energy consumption by using fewer energy services.
See Thermostat and Energy conservation
Energy harvesting
Energy harvesting (EH) – also known as power harvesting, energy scavenging, or ambient power – is the process by which energy is derived from external sources (e.g., solar power, thermal energy, wind energy, salinity gradients, and kinetic energy, also known as ambient energy), then stored for use by small, wireless autonomous devices, like those used in wearable electronics, condition monitoring, and wireless sensor networks.
See Thermostat and Energy harvesting
Fan (machine)
A fan is a powered machine used to create a flow of air.
See Thermostat and Fan (machine)
Feedback
Feedback occurs when outputs of a system are routed back as inputs as part of a chain of cause-and-effect that forms a circuit or loop.
Forced-air
A forced-air central heating system is one which uses air as its heat transfer medium.
Heat
In thermodynamics, heat is the thermal energy transferred between systems due to a temperature difference.
Heat exchanger
A heat exchanger is a system used to transfer heat between a source and a working fluid.
See Thermostat and Heat exchanger
Heat pump
A heat pump is a device that consumes work (or electricity) to transfer heat from a cold heat sink to a hot heat sink.
Heating element
A heating element is a device used for conversion of electric energy into heat, consisting of a heating resistor and accessories.
See Thermostat and Heating element
Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning
Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) is the use of various technologies to control the temperature, humidity, and purity of the air in an enclosed space.
See Thermostat and Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning
Home automation
Home automation or domotics is building automation for a home.
See Thermostat and Home automation
Honeywell
Honeywell International Inc. is an American publicly traded, multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Hysteresis
Hysteresis is the dependence of the state of a system on its history.
Illusion of control
The illusion of control is the tendency for people to overestimate their ability to control events.
See Thermostat and Illusion of control
Incubator (culture)
An incubator is a device used to grow and maintain microbiological cultures or cell cultures.
See Thermostat and Incubator (culture)
Incubator (egg)
An incubator is a device simulating avian incubation by keeping eggs warm at a particular temperature range and in the correct humidity with a turning mechanism to hatch them.
See Thermostat and Incubator (egg)
Internal combustion engine
An internal combustion engine (ICE or IC engine) is a heat engine in which the combustion of a fuel occurs with an oxidizer (usually air) in a combustion chamber that is an integral part of the working fluid flow circuit.
See Thermostat and Internal combustion engine
Legionella
Legionella is a genus of pathogenic gram-negative bacteria that includes the species L. pneumophila, causing legionellosis (all illnesses caused by Legionella) including a pneumonia-type illness called Legionnaires' disease and a mild flu-like illness called Pontiac fever.
Lever
A lever is a simple machine consisting of a beam or rigid rod pivoted at a fixed hinge, or fulcrum.
Liquid-crystal display
A liquid-crystal display (LCD) is a flat-panel display or other electronically modulated optical device that uses the light-modulating properties of liquid crystals combined with polarizers. Thermostat and liquid-crystal display are American inventions.
See Thermostat and Liquid-crystal display
Magnet
A magnet is a material or object that produces a magnetic field.
Manufacturing
Manufacturing is the creation or production of goods with the help of equipment, labor, machines, tools, and chemical or biological processing or formulation.
See Thermostat and Manufacturing
Measurement
Measurement is the quantification of attributes of an object or event, which can be used to compare with other objects or events.
See Thermostat and Measurement
Mechanism (engineering)
In engineering, a mechanism is a device that transforms input forces and movement into a desired set of output forces and movement.
See Thermostat and Mechanism (engineering)
Mercury (element)
Mercury is a chemical element; it has symbol Hg and atomic number 80.
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Mercury switch
A mercury switch is an electrical switch that opens and closes a circuit when a small amount of the liquid metal mercury connects metal electrodes to close the circuit. Thermostat and mercury switch are switches.
See Thermostat and Mercury switch
Model predictive control
Model predictive control (MPC) is an advanced method of process control that is used to control a process while satisfying a set of constraints.
See Thermostat and Model predictive control
Natural gas
Natural gas (also called fossil gas, methane gas or simply gas) is a naturally occurring mixture of gaseous hydrocarbons consisting primarily of methane (95%) in addition to various smaller amounts of other higher alkanes.
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OpenTherm
OpenTherm (OT) is a standard communications protocol used in central heating systems for the communication between a central heating appliances and a thermostatic controller. Thermostat and OpenTherm are temperature control.
Operating temperature
An operating temperature is the allowable temperature range of the local ambient environment at which an electrical or mechanical device operates.
See Thermostat and Operating temperature
Oven
A double oven A ceramic oven An oven is a tool which is used to expose materials to a hot environment.
Overshoot (signal)
In signal processing, control theory, electronics, and mathematics, overshoot is the occurrence of a signal or function exceeding its target.
See Thermostat and Overshoot (signal)
Phase transition
In physics, chemistry, and other related fields like biology, a phase transition (or phase change) is the physical process of transition between one state of a medium and another.
See Thermostat and Phase transition
Physical system
A physical system is a collection of physical objects under study.
See Thermostat and Physical system
Placebo button
A placebo button is a push-button or other control that appears to have functionality but has no physical effect when pressed. Thermostat and placebo button are switches.
See Thermostat and Placebo button
Pneumatics
Pneumatics (from Greek πνεῦμα 'wind, breath') is a branch of engineering that makes use of gas or pressurized air.
Pound per square inch
The pound per square inch (abbreviation: psi) or, more accurately, pound-force per square inch (symbol: lbf/in2), is a unit of measurement of pressure or of stress based on avoirdupois units.
See Thermostat and Pound per square inch
Programmable thermostat
A programmable thermostat is a thermostat which is designed to adjust the temperature according to a series of programmed settings that take effect at different times of the day. Thermostat and programmable thermostat are temperature control.
See Thermostat and Programmable thermostat
Proportional–integral–derivative controller
A proportional–integral–derivative controller (PID controller or three-term controller) is a control loop mechanism employing feedback that is widely used in industrial control systems and a variety of other applications requiring continuously modulated control.
See Thermostat and Proportional–integral–derivative controller
Radiator
A radiator is a heat exchanger used to transfer thermal energy from one medium to another for the purpose of cooling and heating.
Radiator (engine cooling)
Radiators are heat exchangers used for cooling internal combustion engines, mainly in automobiles but also in piston-engined aircraft, railway locomotives, motorcycles, stationary generating plants or any similar use of such an engine.
See Thermostat and Radiator (engine cooling)
Refrigerator
A refrigerator, colloquially fridge, is a commercial and home appliance consisting of a thermally insulated compartment and a heat pump (mechanical, electronic or chemical) that transfers heat from its inside to its external environment so that its inside is cooled to a temperature below the room temperature.
See Thermostat and Refrigerator
Relay
A relay Electromechanical relay schematic showing a control coil, four pairs of normally open and one pair of normally closed contacts An automotive-style miniature relay with the dust cover taken off A relay is an electrically operated switch. Thermostat and relay are American inventions.
Resistance thermometer
Resistance thermometers, also called resistance temperature detectors (RTDs), are sensors used to measure temperature.
See Thermostat and Resistance thermometer
Reversing valve
A reversing valve is a type of valve and is a component in a heat pump, that changes the direction of refrigerant flow.
See Thermostat and Reversing valve
Semiconductor device
A semiconductor device is an electronic component that relies on the electronic properties of a semiconductor material (primarily silicon, germanium, and gallium arsenide, as well as organic semiconductors) for its function.
See Thermostat and Semiconductor device
Sensor
A sensor is a device that produces an output signal for the purpose of detecting a physical phenomenon.
Setpoint (control system)
In cybernetics and control theory, a setpoint (SP; also set point) is the desired or target value for an essential variable, or process value (PV) of a control system, which may differ from the actual measured value of the variable.
See Thermostat and Setpoint (control system)
Smart thermostat
Smart thermostats are Wi-Fi thermostats that can be used with home automation and are responsible for controlling a home's heating, ventilation, and air conditioning. Thermostat and Smart thermostat are American inventions and temperature control.
See Thermostat and Smart thermostat
Solenoid
An illustration of a solenoid Magnetic field created by a seven-loop solenoid (cross-sectional view) described using field lines A solenoid is a type of electromagnet formed by a helical coil of wire whose length is substantially greater than its diameter, which generates a controlled magnetic field.
Steam
Steam is a substance containing water in the gas phase, often mixed with air and/or an aerosol of liquid water droplets.
Switch
In electrical engineering, a switch is an electrical component that can disconnect or connect the conducting path in an electrical circuit, interrupting the electric current or diverting it from one conductor to another. Thermostat and switch are switches.
Temperature
Temperature is a physical quantity that quantitatively expresses the attribute of hotness or coldness.
See Thermostat and Temperature
The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), also referred to simply as the Journal, is an American newspaper based in New York City, with a focus on business and finance.
See Thermostat and The Wall Street Journal
Thermistor
A thermistor is a semiconductor type of resistor whose resistance is strongly dependent on temperature, more so than in standard resistors.
Thermocouple
A thermocouple, also known as a "thermoelectrical thermometer", is an electrical device consisting of two dissimilar electrical conductors forming an electrical junction. Thermostat and thermocouple are temperature control.
See Thermostat and Thermocouple
Thermopile
A thermopile is an electronic device that converts thermal energy into electrical energy.
Thermostatic mixing valve
A thermostatic mixing valve (TMV) is a valve that blends hot water with cold water to ensure constant, safe shower and bath outlet temperatures to prevent scalding. Thermostat and thermostatic mixing valve are temperature control.
See Thermostat and Thermostatic mixing valve
Thermostatic radiator valve
A thermostatic radiator valve (TRV) is a self-regulating valve fitted to hot water heating system radiator, to control the temperature of a room by changing the flow of hot water to the radiator. Thermostat and thermostatic radiator valve are temperature control.
See Thermostat and Thermostatic radiator valve
Touchscreen
A touchscreen (or touch screen) is a type of display that can detect touch input from a user. Thermostat and touchscreen are American inventions.
See Thermostat and Touchscreen
Toxicity
Toxicity is the degree to which a chemical substance or a particular mixture of substances can damage an organism.
Transformer
In electrical engineering, a transformer is a passive component that transfers electrical energy from one electrical circuit to another circuit, or multiple circuits.
See Thermostat and Transformer
TRIAC
A TRIAC (triode for alternating current; also bidirectional triode thyristor or bilateral triode thyristor) is a three-terminal electronic component that conducts current in either direction when triggered.
Valve
A valve is a device or natural object that regulates, directs or controls the flow of a fluid (gases, liquids, fluidized solids, or slurries) by opening, closing, or partially obstructing various passageways.
Volt
The volt (symbol: V) is the unit of electric potential, electric potential difference (voltage), and electromotive force in the International System of Units (SI).
Voltage
Voltage, also known as (electrical) potential difference, electric pressure, or electric tension is the difference in electric potential between two points.
Warren S. Johnson
Warren Seymour Johnson (November 6, 1847 – December 5, 1911) was an American college professor who was frustrated by his inability to regulate individual classroom temperatures.
See Thermostat and Warren S. Johnson
Water heating
Water heating is a heat transfer process that uses an energy source to heat water above its initial temperature.
See Thermostat and Water heating
Wax thermostatic element
The wax thermostatic element was invented in 1934 by Sergius Vernet (1899–1968). Thermostat and wax thermostatic element are temperature control.
See Thermostat and Wax thermostatic element
Wire
Overhead power cabling. The conductor consists of seven strands of steel (centre, high tensile strength), surrounded by four outer layers of aluminium (high conductivity). Sample diameter 40 mm A wire is a flexible, round, bar of metal.
Wisconsin
Wisconsin is a state in the Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest of the United States.
Zone valve
A zone valve is a specific type of valve used to control the flow of water or steam in a hydronic heating or cooling system.
See also
17th-century inventions
- Barometer
- Corkscrew
- Piano
- Reflecting telescope
- Slide rule
- Spatula Mundani
- Swedish torch
- Thermostat
- Vacuum pump
Temperature control
- Cold chain
- Digital perm
- Heat exchangers
- Honeywell T87
- Humidistat
- Insulated shipping container
- KMC Controls
- Liquid droplet radiator
- Nest Thermostat
- OpenTherm
- Programmable communicating thermostat
- Programmable thermostat
- Smart thermostat
- Spacecraft thermal control
- Temperature control
- Thermal bag
- Thermocouple
- Thermoregulation
- Thermostat
- Thermostatic mixing valve
- Thermostatic radiator valve
- Thermowell
- Time temperature indicator
- Wax thermostatic element
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermostat
Also known as Chronothermostat, Pneumatic thermostat, Thermorelay, Thermostatic heat control, Thermostatically controlled load, Thermostatically controlled loads, Thermostats.
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