INGAR   05399
INSTITUTO DE DESARROLLO Y DISEÑO
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
Flexibility Study for a MSF
Autor/es:
TARIFA ENRIQUE E; FRANCO SAMUEL; HUMANA DEMETRIO; MUSSATI SERGIO
Lugar:
King Hussein Bin Talal Convention Center, Dead Sea, Jordan
Reunión:
Conferencia; Euromed 2008: Desalination Cooperation among Mediterranean Countries of Europe and the MENA Region; 2008
Resumen:
This work addresses a flexibility study on a multi-stage flash (MSF) desalination plant. When any plant is designed, the engineers define the design for reaching optimal operation under nominal conditions. However, uncertain variables or disturbance can not be handled to obtain those nominal conditions. For this reason, the design contains control elements for compensating the disturbance effects. This compensation is only possible into a region defined by the characteristics of the process and the control elements. When the actual conditions are out of that region, the compensation is not enough, and the plant is not operable. A flexibility study determines the region into which the process is operable. This information can be useful for determining design modifications to improve the process flexibility. A flexibility study involves a complex mathematical model, which is even more complex for a MSF plant. To overcome that problem, in this work, a stationary simulator was developed for a real-world case study, and the region exploration was performed by Monte Carlo simulation. Results show, in terms of both robustness and speed of computation, that this approach can be a useful tool.