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FISCHER~ TECHNICAL 53-3

ERLr-" lNFORMATION NOV. 1979

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ADAPTIVE SAMPLING CONTROL SYSTEM

FOR PROCESSES WITH VARYING RESPONSE TIME


In many ty pical processes, an additive is p o n.ding to the lowest expected flow rate.
intro d uced continuously in to a varying p ro- This would limit the performance of the
cess st re am at the entrance to some re action control ler wh en operating at all norma l
vessel which provides r e tention time. At f low rates higher than t ~ e expected minimum.
the v e ssel outlet the process stream is The refore, for processes having variable
analyzed for the condi ti'on or property time of response, the electric timer is not
affe cted by the additive. In many cases it u se d. Instead, an F&P F low Integrator is
is desirable to provide feedback control of co nnected to the main stre~~ flow signal
that propert y by automatically varying the and is used to gene rate pulses representing
ratio of additive to strea m flo w at the the totalized flow thr oug h the process. The
inlet of the process. pulses are then accumulated by a predeter-
mi ning coun te r which initiates the Sampling
Th e f i rst step is to install a r atio control Con troller action after a known volume of
system using f lowmeters on both in'let f luid has pa ss ed through the process, thereby
streams and an automati c valve on the addi- allowing the control ler to sample as soon as
tive stream. Now as the main stream f 10\v p os sible, but not before the new condition
rate varies up or down, the additi v e flow has reached the analyzer.
rate will al ways follow in exac tly the ratio
set _a t the control instrument . The output of the Sampling Controller is
used as an automatic setting of the ratio
The analyzer is installed at the v esse l ou~­ con trol system. Process flow variations
let or at a point wher e the reacti o n is cannot affect the proportion of additive to
known to be es sentiall y complete, eVen at main stream flow because of the rat io
the high e st t hrough-put rate . The analyzer controller , and optinu ~ =e sponse of the
se nd s i ts mea surement sig nal to an F&P anal yti ca l cont r ol l oop is s upe rimposed on
Sampling Co ntroller as described in TIS 53-9 t h e sy s t e m by mak ing s ~all i nte r mittent
or 57ESL-IO. This is an instrument which corrections to the r atio se tt i ng .
makes an incremental change to its ou tput
b a sed o n the exi sti ng e rror and maintains
tha t output for a period of tifile to a 110 \,0,' ~ ypical applica tions are:
the process response to oc c ur . 7hen it
once ag ain observes the e rr or a nd recorrects 1. Re sidual Cl2 control of water or treated
the output if necessary . sewage.

Usually th e waiting p e ri o d of a Sampling 2. pH control of waste wa ter.


Controller is determ ined by an electric
timer. In the case described above , the 3. Density control of solu tio ns or s lurries.
presence of a variabl e th rough-put rate
wou l d req u ir e that this t i mer be set for 4. ORP or di sso lved 02 in sewage aeration
the longest expected r espo n se time cor res- tank .

Pre det er t:'li~ing

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