Double pipe heat exchanger fouling compensation

    公开(公告)号:US12276991B2

    公开(公告)日:2025-04-15

    申请号:US17550444

    申请日:2021-12-14

    Abstract: This disclosure presents methods and systems of controlling a counter flow double pipe heat exchanger (DPHE) that includes a hot fluid pipe and a cold fluid pipe. In a method, a temperature error between a reference temperature and a temperature at an outlet of the hot fluid pipe of the counter flow DPHE is determined. A cold fluid mass flow rate is determined from an output of a proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controller based on the temperature error being input to the PID controller. The cold fluid mass flow rate is used for a cold fluid in the cold fluid pipe of the counter flow DPHE. The temperature error is controlled within a predefined range by utilizing parameters of the PID controller that are set by using a harmony search algorithm (HSA) to obtain a minimization of a cost function.

    Apparatus and method for failure detection

    公开(公告)号:US11435734B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-09-06

    申请号:US16502421

    申请日:2019-07-03

    Abstract: In a method for failure, detection, operational data from a plurality of components in a system are received. A bank of submodels is created based on the operational data. The bank of submodels corresponds to a normal mode and one or more faulty modes of the system and is valid in different operating regimes of the system. Each of the banks of submodels has a respective weight (validity) and a respective suboutput. An output of the system is a weighted sum of the suboutputs of the submodels. The operational data is therefore processed to generate a validity profile through a constrained Kalman Filter (KCF) based multimodel fault detection and diagnosis (FDD). Subsequently, the validity profile is output. The validity profile is indicative of an operation state of the system at a given time, and the operation state includes a normal state and a fault state.

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