scholarly journals Control System for the Mainline Gas Turbines and Crude Oil Pumps on the Saudi Arabian Petroline

Author(s):  
C. Stasiowski

The paper presents an overview of the system employed to control the mainline gas turbines and crude oil pumps used on the 747 mile East-West Petroline. Various operating modes such as starting, stopping and fuel transfers for normal and emergency operation are discussed. Particular attention is focused on the various fuel systems as well as a review of the major design problem areas and solutions. The results of a system test and the integration of each unit into the overall pipeline control scheme are included for completeness.

1980 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. W. Temple ◽  
F. L. Foltz ◽  
H. R. Jamalallail

The 747-mile East-West Crude Oil Pipeline across Saudi Arabia employs 60 gas turbines for pumping and power generation. Mainline pump drives are three United Technologies Corporation FT4A-9 modular industrial gas turbines at each of 11 pumping stations. Two of the three mainline gas turbines are required for maximum throughput, while the third is an operational spare. High reliability and availability constraints and the remote unmanned station concept underscore the need for a modern maintenance information system. This paper describes an independent multiple-fault diagnostic/prognostic system, employing a patented gas path analysis technique.


Author(s):  
A. I. Tatarinov

With the help of the general and structurally-information schemes of remote control, an analysis was made in the course of which the requirements for protection against unauthorized access of the complex system were clarified and established. In the article structural features of the remote control system of mobile measuring points of rocket and space equipment are considered. These features are represented by the requirements for information protection, as well as the operating modes of this system. The list of these regimes was obtained as a result of studies of structural and functional schemes of a remote control system for mobile measuring points.


Actuators ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 105
Author(s):  
Thinh Huynh ◽  
Minh-Thien Tran ◽  
Dong-Hun Lee ◽  
Soumayya Chakir ◽  
Young-Bok Kim

This paper proposes a new method to control the pose of a camera mounted on a two-axis gimbal system for visual servoing applications. In these applications, the camera should be stable while its line-of-sight points at a target located within the camera’s field of view. One of the most challenging aspects of these systems is the coupling in the gimbal kinematics as well as the imaging geometry. Such factors must be considered in the control system design process to achieve better control performances. The novelty of this study is that the couplings in both mechanism’s kinematics and imaging geometry are decoupled simultaneously by a new technique, so popular control methods can be easily implemented, and good tracking performances are obtained. The proposed control configuration includes a calculation of the gimbal’s desired motion taking into account the coupling influence, and a control law derived by the backstepping procedure. Simulation and experimental studies were conducted, and their results validate the efficiency of the proposed control system. Moreover, comparison studies are conducted between the proposed control scheme, the image-based pointing control, and the decoupled control. This proves the superiority of the proposed approach that requires fewer measurements and results in smoother transient responses.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (14) ◽  
pp. 6299
Author(s):  
Xiong Xie ◽  
Tao Sheng ◽  
Liang He

The distributed attitude synchronization control problem for spacecraft formation flying subject to limited energy and computational resources is addressed based on event-triggered mechanism. Firstly, a distributed event-driven controller is designed to achieve attitude coordination with the limitation of energy and computing resources. Under the proposed control strategy, the controller is only updated at the event triggering instants, which effectively reduces the update frequency. Subsequently, an event-triggered strategy is developed to further decrease energy consumption and the amount of computation. The proposed event-triggered function only requires the latest state information about its neighbors, implying that the trigger threshold does not need to be calculated continuously. It is shown that the triggering interval between two successive events is strictly positive, showing that the control system has no Zeno phenomenon. Moreover, the update frequency of the proposed controller can be reduced by more than 90% compared to the update frequency of the corresponding time-driven controller with an update frequency of 10 Hz by choosing appropriate control parameters and the control system can still achieve high-precision convergence. Finally, the effectiveness of the constructed control scheme is verified by numerical simulations.


Author(s):  
Shihuan Li ◽  
Lei Wang

For L4 and above autonomous driving levels, the automatic control system has been redundantly designed, and a new steering control method based on brake has been proposed; a new dual-track model has been established through multiple driving tests. The axle part of the model was improved, the accuracy of the transfer function of the model was verified again through acceleration-slide tests; a controller based on interference measurement was designed on the basis of the model, and the relationships between the controller parameters was discussed. Through the linearization of the controller, the robustness of uncertain automobile parameters is discussed; the control scheme is tested and verified through group driving test, and the results prove that the accuracy and precision of the controller meet the requirements, the robustness stability is good. Moreover, the predicted value of the model fits well with the actual observation value, the proposal of this method provides a new idea for avoiding car out of control.


2013 ◽  
Vol 706-708 ◽  
pp. 716-719
Author(s):  
Jian Chu ◽  
Gang Wang

This paper mainly introduced to the PLC as the core of stainless steel composite plate electric control part of the design. The system uses the converter +PLC+ man-machine interface, as the major part of roll welding machine control, because of the use of the PLC, so that the system can improve the automatic level, electrical components is reduced, reduce failure rate, improve the reliability of equipment operation. Based on the current control and speed control, so that the welding quality and welding speed has been greatly improved. In the article, mainly from the production process, and the control system hardware and software design, and the control scheme to introduce several aspects.


1991 ◽  
Vol 113 (2) ◽  
pp. 290-295 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Kumakura ◽  
T. Matsumura ◽  
E. Tsuruta ◽  
A. Watanabe

A control system has been developed for a high-quality generating set (150-kW) equipped with a two-shaft gas turbine featuring a variable power turbine nozzle. Because this generating set satisfies stringent frequency stability requirements, it can be employed as the direct electric power source for computer centers without using constant-voltage, constant-frequency power supply systems. Conventional generating sets of this kind have normally been powered by single-shaft gas turbines, which have a larger output shaft inertia than the two-shaft version. Good frequency characteristics have also been realized with the two-shaft gas turbine, which provides superior quick start ability and lower fuel consumption under partial loads.


2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan-xu Zhang ◽  
Yang-wang Fang ◽  
Peng-fei Yang ◽  
You-li Wu ◽  
Tong-xin Liu

This paper proposed a finite time convergence global sliding mode control scheme for the second-order multiple models control system. Firstly, the global sliding surface without reaching law for a single model control system is designed and the tracking error finite time convergence and global stability are proved. Secondly, we generalize the above scheme to the second-order multimodel control system and obtain the global sliding mode control law. Then, the convergent and stable performances of the closed-loop control system with multimodel controllers are proved. Finally, a simulation example shows that the proposed control scheme is more effective and useful compared with the traditional sliding mode control scheme.


1970 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. A. Prue ◽  
T. L. Soule

The next generation of free-turbine engines in the 2 to 5-lb/sec airflow class will undergo vast improvements in performance and efficiency. The improvements will be achieved concurrent with overall reductions in size and weight. Effort is required at optimization and miniaturization of the engine control system to keep pace with these improvements. This paper describes a conceptual design of an advanced engine control system for this class of engine. It provides gas generator and power turbine control with torque, temperature, load sharing and overspeed limiting functions. The control system was concepted to accommodate, with minimum hardware changes, such variants as regenerative cycle and/or variable power turbine geometry. In addition, considerations for closed and open loop modes of control and fluidic, electronic and hydromechanical technologies were studied to best meet a defined specification and a weighted set of evaluation criteria.


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