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An Educational plant based on the Quadruple-tank process
Autor/es | Alvarado Aldea, Ignacio
Limón Marruedo, Daniel García-Gabín, Winston Alamo, Teodoro Camacho, Eduardo F. |
Departamento | Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Ingeniería de Sistemas y Automática |
Fecha de publicación | 2006 |
Fecha de depósito | 2020-04-17 |
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ISBN/ISSN | 9783902661074 1474-6670 |
Resumen | This paper presents an experimental tank system developed at the University ofSeville for process control education. This plant is based on the well known quadruple-tank process and some modifications have been done ... This paper presents an experimental tank system developed at the University ofSeville for process control education. This plant is based on the well known quadruple-tank process and some modifications have been done in order to obtain a wide rangeof applications. The quadruple tank process is a multivariable laboratory plant of inter-connected tanks that can be easily configured to exhibit the effect of multivariable zero(minimum and non-minimum phase) on the system behavior, as well as the effect of nonlinear dynamics, saturation, constraints, etc.In the real plant implementation, the original structure of the process has been modifiedto offer a wide variety of uses for both educational and research purposes.Thus, differentplants can be configured such as one single tank, two or three cascaded tanks, a mixtureprocess and hybrid dynamics. Moreover the dynamics parameters of each tank can be setup by tuning the cross-section of the outlet hole of the tank. Furthermore, the real plant hasbeen implemented using industrial instrumentation and a PLC for the low level control.Supervision and control of the plant is carried out in a computer by means of OPC (Olefor Process Control) which allows one to connect the plant with a wide range of controlprograms such as LabView, Matlab or industrial SCADA. |
Identificador del proyecto | DPI 2004-07444 |
Cita | Alvarado Aldea, I., Limón Marruedo, D., García-Gabín, W., Alamo, T. y Camacho, E.F. (2006). An Educational plant based on the Quadruple-tank process. En IFAC Symposium on Advances in Control Education (82-87), Madrid, España: Elsevier. |
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