Novel transport delay problem solutions for gas plant inlet pressure control

Abstract

The process of transferring the natural gas from the gas well to the gas separation plant encountered some delay time depending on the distance between this well and the factory, the cross section of the transport line, the geometry of this transport line, the well pressure and others. To control the factory inlet pressure by controlling the choke valve existing at the well head, the delay time makes the traditional control systems to fail. In this framework we aim to solve this problem by presenting a novel controller design and delay modeling technique. The presented technique is compared to the previous control system design and delay approximation techniques.

Keywords

• PID controller
• Control system design
• State space
• Transfer function