Optimal control of pump rotational speed in filling and emptying a reservoir: minimum energy consumption with fixed time

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• 作者：Matti Lindstedt ; Reijo Karvinen
• 关键词：Energy efficiency ; Pumps ; Variable ; speed drives ; Process control
• 刊名：Energy Efficiency
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：December 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：9
• 期：6
• 页码：1461-1474
• 全文大小：1,592 KB
• 刊物类别：Earth and Environmental Science
• 刊物主题：Environment
  Environment
  Environmental Economics
  Energy Economics
  Renewable Energy Sources
  
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1570-6478
• 卷排序：9

文摘

An effective way to save energy in pumping systems with low static head is to control the pump’s rotational speed with a variable-speed drive (VSD), which allows changing of the rotational speed when necessary. VSDs can be utilized to control batch transfer systems, for example, in filling or emptying a tank or a reservoir. In the literature, such processes have been optimized only with respect to energy consumption, but the time limit has been ignored. This means that pumping time can be very long. Our paper deals with this optimization problem and considers both pumping time and energy demand, which are often conflicting criteria. We derived a general optimal control law for rotational speed, which can easily be implemented in existing VSDs in the market. Minimum energy and minimum time schemes are special cases of this general new scheme. A constant flow rate scheme, suggested in the literature, is verified to give an optimum solution if the efficiency of the pump remains constant during operation. In addition to energy consumption, rotational speed control can have a favorable effect on the pump’s lifetime, as pointed out in the paper.