This paper proposes a robust design scheme for the control of surge phenomenon appearing in a centrifugal compressor. It is known the surge instability in compressor might lead to reduce the operating efficiency and even damage the machinery while both of unstable compressor characteristics and compressor load torque are hard to exactly measure in the practical application. Based on the assumpt...

Surge is one of the two main dynamic instabilities that can occur in compressor systems (the other is the rotating stall) preventing their satisfactory operation and being potential cause of serious damages. In this paper we consider a Close Coupled Valve (CCV) as actuator, and we suggest the use of a second-order sliding-mode (2-SM) technique for the active control of the surge phenomenon. We ...

the water hammer phenomenon in hydroelectric power plant’s penstock is one of the famous troubles which have been an interest for researchers. hence this phenomenon can cause many harmful effects on pipe lines and turbine, it is essential that effects of these surges along with line and turbine have been studied and suitable methods for controlling presented. in this way one of the most effecti...

The valves in reciprocating compressors use springs to control the timing of the valve closing. These springs are subjected to dynamic loading by the motion of the valve element. The element motion is periodic, but includes rapid acceleration and deceleration. It can therefore excite a wide range of frequencies in the spring. The resulting spring surge creates high stresses and is a major contr...

Abstract This paper describes the active control of the instabilities of an axial flow compressor using a fuzzy logic controller. The controller is designed using a genetic algorithm. The control variable is the throttle of the outlet valve, situated after the compressor. Simulation results show that the controller is able to control both the surge and the rotating stall in the critical operati...

This paper investigates the influence of voltage dips on large electric driven gas compressors (EDC) considering a typical application in the oil and gas industry. Voltage or power dips are electric disturbances encountered in EDC which are mainly caused by faults in the electrical grid and might last for durations up to 150ms. For gas compression applications, the loss of driver torque often p...

conclusions in this study, some characteristics that had a positive impact on the success of a manager in a hospital surge situation were identified. these characteristics ought to be taken into account when appointing hospital administrators and designing training programs for hospital administrators with the aim of being better prepared to face disasters. background hospital administrators pl...

In this article torque assisted anti-surge control (TASC), a compressor anti-surge control system based on model predictive control (MPC) is presented. TASC is implemented on an embedded system for the control of compressor stations with electrical variable-speed drives (VSD) which are used in applications such as natural gas transportation via pipelines. The manipulated variables of the propos...