CHEM ENG 3P4

ASSIGNMENT 6

DUE 5:00pm Fri 04/01/11

QUESTION 1

Use Simulink to generate the required dynamic responses in the questions below.

QUESTION 2

(a) Cascade control is a popular strategy for dealing with the control problems created by such steam pressure uctuations. Draw a block diagram for this process under such a cascade control strategy; include all the given transfer functions (and controllers), and label all the signals. (b) Consider the cascade control system in (a). Determine the oset to a unit step change in the steam supply pressure, if proportional controllers were used in both the primary and secondary loops, with the controller gains (Kc ) in both controllers set to 2. (c) Because the steam supply pressure is measured, it is also possible to congure this process for feedforward/feedback control instead of cascade control. Recongure the process for this new control structure, draw a block diagram showing this new conguration, and obtain an expression for the feedforward controller to be implemented. (d) Show the (i) cascade control scheme of part (a) and (ii) feedforward/feedback control scheme of part (b) on replicas of the process ow diagram of Fig P16.3.

QUESTION 3

The model for a 2 2 subsystem derived from a heavy oil fractionator column presented by Prett and Garcia is given as

y1

y2

4.05e 50s + 1 4.06e 13s + 1

27s

1.20e 45s + 1 1.19 19s + 1

27s

8s

u1

u2

The unit of time is minutes, and the steady-state gains are dimensionless. The subsystem variables are dened as follows: y1 y2 u1 u2 = = = = Top end point Intermediate reux temperature Top draw rate Intermediate reux duty

(a) Use the relative gain array to select an appropriate loop pairing for this system. (b) Do you expect signicant control loop interaction in this system? Why/why not? (c) Draw a block diagram of the complete feedback control system, with variables labelled and transfer functions in the blocks. (d) Design a decoupler for this system, and show the decoupler on the block diagram. Is the decoupler realizable? Explain.