I think what he is talking about is a temp sensing valve, it senses air temp and controls water flow to each rad in the loop, in order to do this the rads need to be plumbed in parallel, the circ or mono flow tee would pump water through the supply and back the return, each rad would be connected to a tee on supply and another on the return, as the valve senses a drop in air temp it opens and allows water to flow from the supply through the path of least resistance ( the rad ) and back to the return.