Tritium Removal Facility High Tritium Distillation Simulation

• Main Author: Zahedi, Polad
• Other Authors: Mostaghimi, Javad
• Language: en_ca
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: Modeling; Simulation; Thermodynamics; Nodalization; MATLAB; Simulink; Tritium; Distillation; Control; Cascade; PID; Tuning; 0548
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1807/35552

A dynamic model was developed for the distillation mechanism of the Darlington Tritium Removal Facility. The model was created using the commercial software package MATLAB/Simulink. The goal was to use such a model to predict the system behaviour for use in control analysis. The distillation system was first divided into individual components including columns, condensers, controllers, heaters and the hydraulic network. Flow streams were then developed to transfer enthalpy, pressure and mass flow rate between the components. The model was able to perform various plant transients for validation and analysis purposes. A comparison of the different controllers was made with the introduction of various disturbances to the system. Also, the effect of the system disturbances when isolated from the transients was studied using the same controllers. Studying different plant transients and disturbances under each controller enabled a comparative analysis.