Multi-Loop PID Controller Design for PVA Degradation in a Tubular UV/H2O2 Photoreactor
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Abstract
Despite significant progress in advanced process control strategies and their performances, proportional-integral-derivative feedback (PID-FB) control remains one of the prevailing approaches in real applications. The popularity of PID controllers is attributed to their simplicity, straightforward implementation, and applicability, especially for single-input, single-output (SISO) systems. However, most industrial processes are multi-input multi-output (MIMO), with pronounced process interactions, necessitating multi-loop control. Identifying these interactions, choosing the optimal pairs of manipulated variables (MVs) and controlled variables (CVs) for MIMO control, and implementing strategies to mitigate system interactions are critical and challenging. This study investigates a multiple PID-FB loop control strategy for a UV/H 2 O 2 photoreactor utilized to degrade polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) in an aqueous solution. The control objective is to regulate the effluent total organic carbon (TOC) and residual H 2 O 2 concentrations (mg/L) while mitigating the impact of the inlet PVA concentration (mg/L) as a disturbance on CVs. The relative gain array (RGA) analysis is used to identify the interaction of control processes and determine the best MV/CV sets. Before controller design, the interaction between control loops is mitigated by designing the feedforward (FF) decouplers. Subsequently, PID controllers are tuned for each decoupled loop. The response of the decoupled system to setpoint trajectory and disturbance rejection affirms its excellent control performance. Additionally, the realizability of the designed decouplers is assessed. All simulations are conducted in MATLAB Simulink.
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| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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