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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 13, 2021
King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, SA;
Sami El Ferik, Dhahran, SA;
Mustafa Al-Nasser, Al-Khobar, SA;
Rached Ben Mansour, Dhahran, SA;
Mohammed Ahmed Mohammed Eltoum, Dhahran, SA;
KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS, Dhahran, SA;
Yokogawa Saudi Arabia Company, Al-Khobar, SA;
Abstract
This disclosure presents methods and systems of controlling a counter flow double pipe heat exchanger (DPHE) that includes a hot fluid pipe and a cold fluid pipe. In a method, a temperature error between a reference temperature and a temperature at an outlet of the hot fluid pipe of the counter flow DPHE is determined. A cold fluid mass flow rate is determined from an output of a proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controller based on the temperature error being input to the PID controller. The cold fluid mass flow rate is used for a cold fluid in the cold fluid pipe of the counter flow DPHE. The temperature error is controlled within a predefined range by utilizing parameters of the PID controller that are set by using a harmony search algorithm (HSA) to obtain a minimization of a cost function.