Journal
WATER SUPPLY
Volume 21, Issue 4, Pages 1552-1566Publisher
IWA PUBLISHING
DOI: 10.2166/ws.2021.032
Keywords
hydraulic transients; reverse osmosis; sliding mode control; water hammer; water quality
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This paper proposes a control strategy to stabilize a reverse osmosis desalination system against hydraulic shocks with enhancing productivity and sustainability. The active control is implemented based on the adaptive super-twisting sliding mode control algorithms to ensure robust performance despite disturbances. The control gains are adaptable to deal with large disturbances during desalination process, resulting in superior performances on controlling water production and eliminating shock waves.
This paper proposes a control strategy to stabilize a reverse osmosis desalination system against hydraulic shocks with enhancing productivity and sustainability. First, the effects of hydraulic transients on water quality have been reviewed. The transient waves are approximated by sinusoidal functions so that their effects are incorporated into the controlled system as external disturbances. Next, the active control is implemented based on the adaptive super-twisting (STW) sliding mode control (SMC) algorithms. Then, the robust performance is guaranteed whenever the sliding variables reach the sliding surfaces in finite time despite disturbances. The STW SMC scheme is to eliminate the chattering problems for protecting the valves and to improve the convergence precision for water production. The control gains are adaptable to enable formation of an effective controller for dealing with large disturbances such as water hammer during desalination process. The simulation results reveal the superior performances on controlling water product, while eliminating shock waves. Especially, the effect of hydraulic shocks has been dramatically attenuated, hence the plant components are protected to avoid fracture. Finally, the robust stability and performance of the desalination plants are guaranteed against large disturbances to ensure the population with quality water as well as system sustainability.
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