Control strategies for the TSTA distillation column-I

Author

Brown, Shannon ; Sherman, R. ; Jones, Roy ; Nikolaou, M.

Volume

4

fYear

1995

fDate

21-23 Jun 1995

Firstpage

2653

Abstract

At the Tritium System Test Assembly (TSTA) of Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), column-I is the first in the train of four distillation columns designed to separate a feed of six components. This distillation operation is in downstream area with respect to the fusion cycle. In this report we discuss the process control issues related to the operation of column-I. We state the control problem and the goals to be achieved, present the results of the step tests on the column and discuss modeling issues, and use the system identification results of to design proportional-integral (PI) controllers for the plant. We propose and implement some advanced control strategies to improve performance of the control structure

Keywords

control system synthesis; distillation; fusion reactor fuel; isotope separation; process control; tritium handling; two-term control; Los Alamos National Laboratory; PI control; T₂; TSTA distillation column-I; Tritium System Test Assembly; advanced control strategies; process control issues; proportional-integral controller design; system identification; Error correction; Feeds; Internet; Laboratories; Open loop systems; Pi control; Proportional control; Steady-state; System identification; System testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

American Control Conference, Proceedings of the 1995

Conference_Location

Seattle, WA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2445-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ACC.1995.532329

Filename

532329