Water Flow Control Bench

Water Flow Control Bench

Teaching Objectives of

• Study of a pressure process control
• Study of a static answer
• Identification in open loop and closed-loop mode
• Answer to a disturbance
• Measure of the output power of the regulator on the control cabinet with the help of secured plugs

Technical specifications

• A water supply tank in transparent PVC
• A circulating pump
• A proportional pneumatic valve
• A converter P/I
• A diaphragm
• A differential pressure sensor with transducer, output 4-20 mA
• 2 flow meters
• A set of manual valves
• Filter regulator
• A pressure disturbance circuit
• A digital controller : universal input: mV, V, mA, T/L, RTD - output 4-20 mA
• Control Algorithm : P, PI, PID, auto adaptive.
• Shunt for the measure of the output power of the regulator and the signal of the pneumatic valve with the help of secured plugs for connecting recorder or other devices.

Options :

• Data acquisition module ref MAC composed with :
• A regulator with a RS485 communication card. In this case the reference number of the equipment equipped with the regulator with card become.
• A converter RS485/RS232.
• A data acquisition software under Windows allowing :
• Reading PID parameters.
• The drawing of the curves.
• The remote control of the regulator parameters.
• The storage of the values
• PC computer type Pentium IV

Dimensions

• 1 700 x 1 500 x 500 mm.

Essential requirements

• Power supply : 380 V three phases - 50 Hz – 0.37 kW (other voltages on inquiry)
• Compressed Air supply: 6 NL/h - 6 bars (not supply as standard)