Title
Indirect feedback measurement of flow in a water pumping network employing artificial intelligence
Date Issued
01 January 2021
Access level
open access
Resource Type
letter
Author(s)
Flores T.K.S.
Gomes H.P.
Catunda S.Y.C.
Universidad Federal de Paraíba
Publisher(s)
MDPI AG
Abstract
Indirect measurement can be used as an alternative to obtain a desired quantity, whose physical positioning or use of a direct sensor in the plant is expensive or not possible. This procedure can been improved by means of feedback control strategies of a secondary variable, which can be measured and controlled. Its main advantage is a new form of dynamic response, with improvements in the response time of the measurement of the quantity of interest. In water pumping networks, this methodology can be employed for measuring the flow indirectly, which can be advantageous due to the high price of flow sensors and the operational complexity to install them in pipelines. In this work, we present the use of artificial intelligence techniques in the implementation of the feedback system for indirect flow measurement. Among the contributions of this new technique is the design of the pressure controller using the Fuzzy logic theory, which rules out the need for knowing the plant model, as well as the use of an artificial neural network for the construction of nonlinear models with the purpose of indirectly estimating the flow. The validation of the proposed approach was carried out through experimental tests in a water pumping system, fully automated and installed at the Laboratory of Hydraulic and Energy Efficiency in Sanitation at the Federal University of Paraiba (LENHS/UFPB). The results were compared with an electromagnetic flow sensor present in the system, obtaining a maximum relative error of 10%.
Start page
1
End page
15
Volume
21
Issue
1
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ciencias de la computación Sistemas de automatización, Sistemas de control Ingeniería del Petróleo, (combustibles, aceites), Energía, Combustibles
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85098798627
PubMed ID
Source
Sensors (Switzerland)
ISSN of the container
14248220
Sources of information: Directorio de Producción Científica Scopus