Title
Modeling a multipurpose water tank plant
Date Issued
20 October 2017
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Publisher(s)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Abstract
This work develops nonlinear and linear dynamic models of a multipurpose plant: a water tank fed by two flow rates (cold and hot water), which are mixed to produce an outflow rate. Such a plant is a MIMO (Multiple Input, Multiple Output) process with two inputs: cold and hot water flow rates, and two outputs: level and temperature of the water in the tank. This plant exhibits interaction between its inputs and outputs because the variation of one input affects the behavior of another output. Some experiments were performed to determine maximum values of the cold and hot flow rates, and to compute the discharge coefficient of the outflow rate. Applying the laws of physics and using the parameters obtanined experimentally, a MIMO nonlinear dynamic model of the plant was obtained. The corresponding state-space representation of the nonlinear model was linearized in order to generate its LTI (Linear Time-Invariant) state-space form. Nonlinear and linear models of the plant are necessary to implement, e.g., model-based control algorithms. For instance, a future work will use the developed LTI state-space model to design a FO (Fractional Order) MIMO controller.
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Sistemas de automatización, Sistemas de control
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85040007994
Source
Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE 24th International Congress on Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computing, INTERCON 2017
ISBN of the container
9781509063628
Conference
24th IEEE International Congress on Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computing, INTERCON 2017
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