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Design and Control of a Twin Tank Water Process

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Conference

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Location

San Antonio, Texas

Publication Date

June 10, 2012

Start Date

June 10, 2012

End Date

June 13, 2012

ISSN

2153-5965

Conference Session

Instrumentation Applications

Tagged Division

Instrumentation

Page Count

16

Page Numbers

25.387.1 - 25.387.16

DOI

10.18260/1-2--21145

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https://216.185.13.131/21145

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826

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Trieu V. Phung University of Houston, Downtown

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Vassilios Tzouanas University of Houston, Downtown

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Vassilios Tzouanas is an Assistant Professor of control and instrumentation in the Engineering Technology Department at the University of Houston, Downtown. Tzouanas earned a diploma in chemical engineering from Aristotle University, a master's of science degree in chemical engineering/process control from the University of Alberta, and a doctorate of philosophy degree in chemical engineering/process control from Lehigh University. His research interests focus on process control systems, process modeling, and simulation. His industrial professional experience includes management and technical positions. He is a member of AIChE.

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Abstract

Design and Control of A Twin Tank Water Process AbstractThe paper is concerned with the design of a twin tank water process and experimental evaluationof feedback and cascade control structures to achieve a desired water level in the second tank byadjusting the water supply to the first tank (feedback only structure) and the water level setpointof the first tank (feedback/cascade structure). Detailed, first principles-based, dynamic models ofthis non-linear and interactive process have been developed and compared to experimental datawith high accuracy. Furthermore, this experimental study entails and discusses the design of thetwin tank process and associated instrumentation, real time data acquisition and control inLABView, process modeling, controller design, and evaluation of the performance of differentcontrol structures in a closed loop manner. It was found that a combined feedback and cascadecontrol structure outperforms the simpler feedback only control structure. This work wasperformed as partial fulfillment of the requirements of the Senior Capstone Project course incontrols and instrumentation. Student experiences are summarized and the need for effectiveproject management methods is emphasized.Note: this student led paper is to be considered for poster presentation.

Phung, T. V., & Tzouanas, V. (2012, June), Design and Control of a Twin Tank Water Process Paper presented at 2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, San Antonio, Texas. 10.18260/1-2--21145

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