Ways to improve the safety, availability and efficiency of MSF plants by using improved controll algorithms are described: state and adaptive PID (proportional intergral derivative) controller or a self-setting function for conventional controllers. The efficiency of a single desalination line or of a complete plant may be improved by introducing optimization algorithms. Software packages monitoring the thermal and mechanical conditions of the plant allow early detection of faults and immediate initiation of counter-measures to avoid unplanned shutdows, thus reducing costs and improving safety and availability of the hardware. Recent developments in diagnostic systems based on expert systems are discussed.
Improvement of operation and availability of MSF plants
Verbesserungsmöglichkeiten für den Betrieb und die Zuverlässigkeit von MSF- Anlagen
Desalination ; 107 , 1 ; 59-74
1996
16 Seiten, 14 Bilder, 17 Quellen
Article (Journal)
English
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