Ladiyeva L.R., Stashkevych P.M., Novoselskyy Y.H.
National Technical University of Ukraine "KPI",Ukraine
Adaptive system of control process of membrane distillation

 

Is proposed solution of the problem of adaptive control of non-stationary heat-mass-transfer of process of contact type membrane distillation (CMD). We considered the synthesis of adaptive systems on the microcontroller Remikont P-130.

Setting of problem

Non-stationarity of properties of the membrane during CMD is the significant practical problem of automatic control. When there is a change of the properties of the membrane module, the system ensures the carrying out of technological process under optimum conditions. Changing these optimal conditions is carried out with the use of adaptive control systems.

 Interest in the problem of adaptive control of time constantly increasing, due to the constant increase in demands for quality management systems, and the availability on the market of means of automation programmable controllers and their relatively low cost. The use of such controllers in control systems allows providing efficient management of objects in non-stationary settings. Therefore, the promising structures of adaptive control system can be considered as such, which consists of PID controller and block of adaptation (BoA), whose parameters are set in the process (Fig. 1).

Fig. 1. The general block diagram of the adaptive control system

The use of control systems with adaptation unit allows you to keep the stability and the necessary quality control of objects, which parameters in the process of are undergoing significant changes.

Statement of the main material

Processes of membrane distillation belong to the class of non-stationary because over time change their characteristics of the membrane, which influences the development of the process of heat mass transfer. This leads for depravation of quality of control, even in optimally tuned to a particular mode SAR. In conducting the processes of heat objects it is essential that a time of transition process was minimal. When using a conventional controller, this is achieved by increasing its transmission coefficient. However, this caused undesirable oscillatory processes in the system of regulation. These undesirable changes can be avoided if you make a transfer ratio regulator depending on the magnitude and speed of change of error of control (derivative). Devices, which achieve this goal, should have a block of adaptation of coefficient transmission controller depending on the fault of control.

As such a device can be offered adaptive controller, which consists of a conventional PID controller and block of adaptation having a transfer function [1].

                                                                                          (1)

Block of adaptation selects the required transmission coefficient of controller based on the error management and its derivative. We create a regulator on the Remikont P-130 microcontroller. To do this, first create a standard PID controller.

To create the PID analog controller we used an algorithm PAH (code 20). Additionally, this algorithm can compute the deviation signal, to carry out his filtering, can bring the dead zone and limit the output signal as for a maximum or minimum. In the algorithm of the adaptive controller is created node of setup that allows changes the settings of the regulator automatically. The structure of the controller includes several sections.

Section of deviation (definition of error control) generates a signal:

                                                ,                                          (2)

Where X1 - not scalable technical signal; KM - scalable coefficient, X2 - scalable of input signal.

The input signal - X2 before the adder is pre-filtered and inverted. With this filter implements a first-order equation with constant time TF.

PID section from a standard regulator converts signal according to the transfer function

                                            ,                                 (3)

where K, Ti, Td - in accordance with the proportionality factor, the time constant of integration and the sustainable time of differentiation.

Complement the PID controller by block adaptation, which was created from the following : a signal of error equal to the difference between the current and the preset value of the measured parameter, fed to the threshold element (code 59), where the two thresholds are calculated error signal. If the error signal is within of the first threshold value, on the output of algorithm-block appears discrete 1 if within the second threshold - discrete 2. Then these signals what determines a value of the error signal in discrete form, coming the node summation of scaling , which are converted to the value of the control signal , which in turn goes to the switch node numbers (code 85) which directly determines what  coefficient transfer of regulator at given time should be. This coefficient of the controller comes on the node of dynamic transformation, on which also comes the signal of variable (on another input). Sector of dynamic conversion found a derivative variable and multiplicating the original signal with a factor of transmission of the controller and added to that factor. Signal, what is formed at the output, consist of the coefficient transmission of the regulator and the same coefficient that multiplicating with the derivative of parameter what when is a constant signal value assignment, task replaces the original signal from the derivative of the error. Then this total signal fed to the input of transmission coefficient PID controller, which is a coefficient that depends on the error of regulation and of its derivative.

So this adaptive controller selects a regulating effect depending on changes of the properties of the object control, and improves the quality of the transition process in the control system.

Experimental study of the adaptive control system was conducted. For the process of contact-membrane distillation by channel "amount of coolant - temperature of solution of the output" was received approximation in the form of the transfer function. Object management that looks like membrane module was simulated object of the second order and technically implemented on pneumatic means.

As a result of this adaptive controller was obtained graphs transients control systems that subject to second order at different values of T1.

Conclusions

Past studies indicate that the transitional process in a control system, which is implemented using the adaptive controller, has a much higher quality than the transitional process of management system that is carried out using a conventional controller. This fact is clearly illustrates with help of the transient response shown in Fig. 3, 4, 5. The result of work is obtaining industrially applicable SAR with adaptive properties that can effectively control equipment meeting the requirements for the course of the process.

Literature
1.Zaytsev G.F. "Automatic Control Theory and Regulation" s.335 - 338.