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Journal of Process Control 62 (2018) 5565Contents lists available at ScienceDirectJournal of Process Controljournal homepage: and implementation of an advanced controller in plantdistributed control system for improving control of non-linear beltweigh feederNayana P. Mahajana,1, Sadanand B. Deshpandeb,2, Sumant G. Kadwanea,3aDepartment of Electrical Engineering, Yeshwantrao Chavan College of Engineering, RTM University, Hingna Road, Wanadongri, Nagpur, Maharashtra,441110, IndiabDean R&D, Priyadarshini Institute of Engineering and Technology, RTM University, Hingna Road, Priyadarshini Campus, Digdoh Hills, Nagpur,Maharashtra, 440019, Indiaa r t i c l e i n f oArticle history:Received 28 May 2017Received in revised form21 December 2017Accepted 29 December 2017Keywords:Belt weigh feederDCSFuzzy logicModelling and simulationNon-linearitya b s t r a c tA Belt Weigh Feeder (BWF) is a flat belt conveyor designed for feeding bulk material into a chemicalprocess in a controlled fashion for better process control. The dynamic weight of bulk material is measuredwith a belt weigh bridge and the belt speed is controlled to compensate for any variation in the weightso that the mass feed rate is maintained as per the set feed rate. The problem of belt speed controlis challenging as the dynamic response of system is non-linear and there are frequent changes in beltload due to variation in bulk material characteristics. The control accuracy of belt weigh feeder is fullydependent on the controllers performance in providing precise control of speed of motor/belt. Any delayin achieving the set feed rate or frequent deviation between set and actual feed rate affects the quality andefficiency of downstream process. Conventional PI controller is unable to provide optimum control due tosystem non-linearity. To overcome this problem, in this paper first the operating data of the BWF systemis analysed and the nature and cause for the nonlinearity is investigated. The system is then modelledusing the design parameters of plant belt weigh feeder, which is then simulated to have a better insightinto its non-linear response. Subsequently, based on simulation results, a PI Fuzzy Logic (PI-FL) controlleris designed to improve the control accuracy of the system. Further, to ensure the stability of the system, anadaptive controller is introduced in cascade to fine tune the gains of PI-FL controller as per the operatingspeed of the BWF. Finally, an advanced PI-FL with cascade adaptive controller is implemented in theplant DCS (microprocessor based process control system). The actual test results indicate reduction inthe Integral of Absolute Error (IAE) of the system by about 34% using this controller. 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.1. IntroductionBelt Weigh Feeders (BWF) are used in many mineral/ore,cement, chemical, fertiliser and food industries to measure and con-trol the quantity of the bulk material going across the belt. The beltweigh feeder construction includes a small flat conveyor belt sup-ported on a steel frame which provides the mounting arrangementCorresponding author.E-mail addresses: nayana.mahajanvit.edu.in (N.P. Mahajan), (S.B. Deshpande), sgkadwaneycce.edu(S.G. Kadwane).1www.ycce.edu.2www.piet.edu.in.3www.ycce.edu.for feed and discharge end pulleys, weigh bridge rollers and sup-porting idling rollers. An endless rubber belt moves over the pulleysand idling rollers. A DC motor is coupled to discharge pulley via agear box as can be seen from Fig. 1(b). The material load is sensed byload cell based weigh-bridge (in kg/m) and accordingly speed of thebelt (in m/sec) is varied so that the material feed rate (in kg/min orMT/hr) remains constant at the discharge of the belt weigh feederas per (1).Mass flow rate?MTh?= Belt load?kgm? Belt speed?ms? 3.6(Numerical constant)(1)https:/doi.org/10.1016/j.jprocont.2017.12.0100959-1524/ 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.56 N.P. Mahajan et al. / Journal of Process Control 62 (2018) 5565Fig. 1. (a) Picture of Belt Weigh Feeder (BWF) System (b) Schematic Diagram of BWF construction.In order to sense the material weight accurately and allow forload cell time constant, weigh feeder belt is driven at a very lowspeed (less than 0.3 m/s) because of which gear box is required tocouple the drive pulley with DC motor.1.1. Problem statement and literature reviewThe belt weigh feeder system under study is designed for feed-ing Rock Phosphate (Tri-Calcium Phosphate) mineral, a key input inthe manufacture of fertilizers, into the reactor for reaction with 60%Nitric acid. Rock Phosphate, before being fed on the BWF, is groundinto a fine powder in Ball Mill to increase its surface area to achievebetter reaction rate. Rock Phosphate, being a mined mineral, hassome amount of impurities like silica and metal oxides in additionto moisture which leads to frequent changes in its bulk density. Thekey problem of BWF process is that feeding of powdered materialon the belt is non-uniform as it is fed with the help feeding hop-per above BWF. Depending upon the bulk density of bulk material,scaling inside the hopper, moisture and lump content of the bulkmaterial, the feeding rate of material on BWF belt varies contin-uously. The feeding is coarsely controlled manually by adjustingthe gate opening of the feeding hopper and adjusting the vibratingmotors attached to feeding hopper to facilitate uniform feeding ofmaterial on the belt to the extent possible as shown in Fig. 2. This inturn leads to frequent changes in load cell signal that causes BWFmotor set-point to change in order to maintain the mass flow rateconstant as per (1). Further, finely ground Rock Phosphate some-times has a flushing tendency which often leads to abrupt changesin belt load. All these factors in addition to changes in operator set-point requires the BWF controller to continuously adjust the motorand belt speed to maintain the desired feed rate. For example, if theset feed rate is 10 MT/hr and the material load on the belt changesfrom 25 kg/m to 85 kg/m then the belt speed has to be reduced from0.111 m/sec to 0.0327 m/sec to maintain the same feed rate.The accuracy, stability and control performance of Belt WeighFeeder has a direct bearing on quality of the resulting slurry in thereactor. The slurry viscosity and its moisture content are depen-dent on the precise control of Rock Phosphate feed rate and directlyaffect the efficiency of downstream crystallization and filtrationprocess.Hence, from the point of view of process optimization, it is crit-ical that the plant BWF maintains feed rate as per the set feed ratewith excellent control accuracy.The features of the Belt Weigh feeder system are inertia, time-variant, non-linearity and frequent load disturbance. There are twounstable phenomena which affect the performance and precisionof the system, the first one is non-uniform material character suchas coarse size, moisture content, and so forth, and the second oneis variation of the feed rate set-point 1,2. The belt feeder exhibitsnonlinear behaviour because of motor friction, motor saturation,and sensor noise in the measurement system. The dynamics of theweigh belt feeder is dominated by the motor 3,4. The separatelyexcited DC motor employed in belt weigh feeders has dead bandand friction which affects dynamic response of the system. Theexperimental study on DC motor friction shows that Coulomb andStribeck friction causes non-linearity in DC motor model in com-parison with viscous friction 5. The usual practice, however, is tomodel DC motor with only viscous friction while ignoring Coulomband Stribeck friction. The constant belt load disturbance, frequentchanges in bulk material properties and system non-linearity posea great challenge on the PI controller which is provided for main-taining motor/belt speed. These factors affect the system inertia,gain and dynamic response at different operating conditions. Pro-portional plus integral (PI) controller when applicable to DC motorFig. 2. Schematic diagram of an industrial BWF system with feeding arrangement.N.P. Mahajan et al. / Journal of Process Control 62 (2018) 5565 57based system has superior performance as compared to the fuzzycontroller under steady state conditions, but being a linear con-troller it needs mathematical model of the system 6,7. Due toits fixed proportional gain (Kp) and integral time (Ti) settings, theperformance of the PI controller is affected by parameter varia-tions such as system gain, inertia and friction. Any steady stateerror or delay in achieving the set speed (i.e. poor control accuracy)shall lead to off-spec product or loss in process efficiency. Henceautomated tuning of PI controller is desired 8 to improve the con-trol performance of the system at all operating points. In recenttimes, several authors have suggested adaptive control techniquesfor weigh feeder application because of its non-linearity 913.It has been established through several research that Fuzzy LogicControl (FLC) is suitable for controller design when the plant modelis unknown or difficult to develop. It does not need an exact processmodel and has been shown to be robust with respect to distur-bances, large uncertainty and variations in the process behaviour3. Reference 3 has developed three types of Fuzzy logic based PIcontrollers for belt weigh feeder and demonstrated that the self-tuning PI-like FLC performed better than the gain scheduled PI-likeFLC (as per nomenclature in reference 21), however the PI FLC per-formed significantly better than the two kinds of PI-like FLCs. Theauthors have neither developed the model of the system nor inves-tigated the cause and nature of nonlinearity present in the BWFsystem. While designing the PI-FL controller, authors have devel-oped a relatively smaller 9 rule base for auto-tuning of Kpand Kiparameters of PI controller 3.In the present research, first the operating data of the BWF sys-tem is analysed and the nature and cause for the nonlinearity isinvestigated and established. The system is then modelled usingthe design parameters of plant belt weigh feeder, which is thensimulated to have a better insight into its non-linear response.Subsequently, based on simulation results, a PI Fuzzy Logic Con-troller (PI-FLC) is designed incorporating 25 rule bases to improvethe control accuracy of the system. Further, to ensure the stabilityof the system, an adaptive controller is introduced in cascade to finetune the gains of PI-FL controller as per the operating speed of theBWF. Finally, this PI-FL with cascade adaptive controller (AdvancedBWF controller) is implemented in the plant DCS (microprocessorbased process control system) and tested with the plant BWF andthe test results indicate substantial improvement in BWF controlperformance with the Advanced BWF controller.This paper is organised as follows. Section 2 describes the math-ematical modelling of the system to better understand its dynamicbehaviour and the challenges posed by it for a conventional PIcontroller. Section 3 describes the design of PI-FLC with cascadedadaptive controller for the BWF system. Section 4 presents the com-parative performance of both types of controllers using simulation.Section 5 presents the actual implementation of the Advanced BWFcontroller for an industrial belt weigh feeder using the DistributedControl System (DCS) platform. Section 6 presents some discussionon the results and finally Section 7 provides the conclusion.2. Modelling of belt weigh feeder systemThe design parameters of the plant BWF system are as depictedin Table 1.2.1. Mathematical model of the weigh feeder systemThe Belt weigh feeder system can be modelled using followingmathematical equations.Total equivalent inertia of the system at the motor armature, Jeq, is given by(2)Table 1Parameters of Belt Weigh Feeder System.Sr. No. Design parameter Symbol Specifications1. Tag No/Service WIC-101 Rock Phosphate mineral2. Capacity/Max feed rate020 MT/h3. Pulley C-C length 3000 mm4. Pulley diameter D 200 mm5. Active belt length L 2500 mm of material bed6. Endless beltdimensionsLB6400 mm (L) X 1000 mm (W)7. Friction coefficientfactor? 0.38. Mechanical efficiency ? 0.99. Gear box ratio i.e.gear1/gear2I 1: 48 (N1/N2)10. Gear box transmissionefficiency?G0.6611. Rated motor speed 150 rad/s12 Maximum field voltage Ve210 V DC13. Field current Ie0.23 A DC14. Armature voltageVa240 V DC Max15. Armature current Ia15 A DC at Full load16. Armature resistance Ra5.98 ohm17. Armature inductance La0.276H18. Motor torque constant Kb/Kt1.219. Motor inertia Jm0.0221 kgm220. Motor viscous frictioncoefficientBm0.011 Nm sJeq= Jm+ Jgear1+?N1N2?2?Jgear2+ 2Jpulley+ (Mbelt+ Mmaterial) D24?(2)where Mbeltis the mass of belt (including idlers) and Mmaterialisthe mass of bulk material, which cause changes in system inertia toa large extent. Jgear1, Jgear2and Jpulleyare inertias of gear1, gear2andpulley respectively. Gear1and gear2are the internal gears of thegear box meshing with each other and having teeth ratio of 1:48.As the pulley employed is cylindrical hollow object with massMpulleywith inner Diameter Diits mass moment of inertia about itsshaft is given by (3)Jpulley=18Mpulley?D4 Di4?(3)The Load torque of the mechanical system before gear box andat motor shaft is given by (4) and (5) respectively.TL=?M(Belt+Material)gD2?(4)TLeq=TLI?G(5)where TLis the belt load torque before gear box and TLeqis theequivalent load torque seen by the DC motor and g is accelerationdue to gravity.The motor exerts an electromagnetic torque TMdue to the backemf induced in the armature and due to voltages supplied on thestator and armature. Eqs. (6) and (7) define back emf Eband TM.TM= KbIaandKb= KIe(6)where K is motor torque constant.The back emf Ebinduced in armature is proportional to fieldcurrent (or flux) and angular velocity.Eb= Kb i.e. Eb=TMIa?(7)The armature side can be modelled as (8).Va= Ladiadt+ Raia+ Eb(8)58 N.P. Mahajan et al. / Journal of Process Control 62 (2018) 5565Fig. 3. Actual BWF gains at different operating speeds.Electromagnetic torque TMis developed by DC Motor to over-come the equivalent load torque, TLeq, equivalent inertia, Jeq, andfriction as shown in (9).TM= TLeq+ Jeqddt+ Feq (9)where Feqis equivalent co-efficient of friction of BWF system.2.2. Identification of equivalent co-efficient of friction of BWFsystemThe BWF system is a multi-rotational system working at avery slow speed. The BWF motor typically operates at 2530% ofthe rated RPM at full load. Therefore, the effect of initial frictionbetween bearings of rotating parts that reduces as speed increasesand lubrication improves is expected to be prominent and nonlin-ear in the BWF system.The nonlinearity of BWF system can be established by record-ing and analysing its operating data armature voltage, armaturecurrent, belt load, motor RPM which are available on panel understeady state conditions.If we calculate the BWF system gain represented by /Volts andplot the same on Y axis versus corresponding motor speeds onX axis, we obtain the X-Y plot in MS Excel as shown in Fig. 3.The scattered plot clearly indicates the nonlinear response whilethe solid line depicts the best fit trend-line with nonlinear cor-relation equation relating X and Y variables. It can be seen thatwhen the machine operates at lower speeds (1320 rad/s) the sys-tem exhibits lower gain of 0.40.5 rad/s/volts while it improves toaround 0.60.7 rad/s/volts at higher speeds (3040 rad/s). This phe-nomenon can be attributable to changing frictional forces which arehigher at lower speeds and decreases as speed increases.Next, let us try to identify the friction torque seen by the BWFmotor based on the operating data using steady state torque equa-tion given by (10).TM= KbIa= TLeq+ Tf(10)where Tfis the torque seen by the motor due to friction is given byTf= Feq (11)and TLeqis given by (5).The X-Y plot in Fig. 4 in MS Excel depicts the scatter plot of calcu-lated friction torque,Tf, at different BWF speeds. The plot highlightsthat the BWF system operates in the region where Stribeck frictionis prominent due to its low speed. The solid black line representsthe best fit curve showing negative exponential relation 14 whichexplains the nonlinear response obtained in Fig. 2. Stribeck frictionis primarily responsible for the increase in BWF gains at higherspeeds.Fig. 4. BWF friction torque at different operating speeds.It is projected that viscous friction shall become active if the sys-tem speed were to increase beyond the operating range. However,for the purpose of modelling, we can approximate the best fit expo-nential line by a straight line. The average coefficient of friction canthen be deduced by calculating the slope of this line, which gives,Feq= 0.026N-m-s/radCombining system Eqs. (2)(11), we can build the system modelas depicted in Fig. 5 below. The system is provided with conven-tional PI controller for speed control of belt/motor. The belt load,expressed in Kg/m, when multiplied with the belt length signifiesthe material load on the belt which in turn provides the load torqueto the model. Jeq, which is the total equivalent inertia of the systemat the motor armature, in the model is given by (2).2.3. Response with PI controllerThe model should be first tested without PI controller in lineby changing Vastep wise in order to obtain the open loop reactioncurve. In order to obtain the parameters of PI controller i.e. optimumvalue of Kp(Proportion gain) and Ki(Integral gain), Zeigler NicholsReaction curve method can be applied if we have the open loopS type response of the system 15. Based on open loop responsecaptured earlier for the step change of Vafrom 0 to 100 V DC, opti-mum PI controller parameters are calculated (Kp= 1.49 and Ki= 30)10,16. The dynamic response of the system for a step change inspeed reference from 0 to 22 rad/sec is captured as shown in Fig. 6for above PI controller parameters.From the step response it is seen that the system with PI con-troller shows two overshoots and settles at set point after 1.4 s. Theresponse indicates optimal controller tuning with quarter ampli-tude damping for the given plant (belt weigh feeder) gain. However,as observed in Fig. 3, the belt weigh feeder gain keeps on chang-ing with changes in operating speed. Based on this, we can predictthat PI controller tuned for lower set point/load shall cause higherovershoots for higher set-points/load and vice versa due to non-linear gain exhibited by belt weigh feeder system. Reference 17highlights that Ziegler-Nichols tuned PI controllers fail to providesatisfactory performance for higher order and/or nonlinear sys-tems.3. Development of PI fuzzy logic with cascade adaptivecontroller for belt weigh feederIn view of limitations of PI controller for BWF application, itis proposed to modify the conventional PI controller such that itsgains namely the Proportional gain Kpand Integral gain Kigetscontinuously adjusted as per fuzzy rules based on conditions ofspeed error, e, and change in speed error signal, ?e. Traditionally,N.P. Mahajan et al. / Journal of Process Control 62 (2018) 5565 59Fig. 5. Block Diagram representation of Belt Weigh Feeder System Model.Fig. 6. Step response of system with PI controller.the Fuzzy Logic Controller (FLC) works well under transient condi-tions, while proportional plus integral (PI) controller is more suitedto eliminate offset near the steady-state condition. Also, as the sys-tem exhibits variation in its gain, it is proposed to further adaptthe PI-FLC gains as per the operating points for stability. It is pro-posed to take the combined advantages of these three controllersby developing PI- FL with cascaded adaptive controller (AdvancedBWF controller) which can be fast and yet stable as depicted inFig. 7.Fuzzy logic is applied to inputs error (e) and change in error?e along with scaling factors Ge and G?e to develop triangularmembership functions NL, NS, ZE, PS, PL as shown in Table 2A. Tri-angular membe
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