Design PI controller for tank level in industrial process

Abstract EN

In today's chemical, refinery, and petrochemical sectors, separation tanks are one of the most significant separating processes.

one or more separation tanks must operate consistently and reliably for multiple facilities' safe and efficient operation.

therefore, in this paper, a PI controller unit has been designed to improve the performance of the tank level controller of the industrial process in basrah refinery station.

the overall system mathematical model has been derived and simulated by matlab to evaluate the performance.

further, to improve the performance of the tank level controller, optimal PI parameters should be calculated, which closed-loop PID autotuner has been used for this task.

several experiments have been conducted to evaluate the performance of the proposed system.

the results indicated that the PI controller based on the autotuner method is superior to the conventional PI controller in terms of ease to implement and configuration also less time to get optimal PI gains.