A MODEL OF A MARINE CHILLED WATER PLANT FOR MICROPROCESSOR CONTROL DEVELOPMENT

Future naval vessels are likely to exploit recent advances in microprocessors in order to provide an integrated approach to plant control and surveillance for all major machinery systems, and in this connection an evaluation centre is now being developed at the National Gas Turbine Establishment. The complexity of the chilled water plant, which forms a part of this machinery, has led to considerable difficulty when commissioning the plant, and the paper describes and discusses a thermodynamically- based dynamic model of such a plant which has been developed for use at the evaluation centre. Certain improvements are needed in the model, and the article mentions that when the work is completed this thermodynamic approach will provide a simulation useful to the manufacturer for control system development and to the Ministry of Defence for hardware evaluation, and also useful for multi-plant chilled-water system studies and for diagnosing faults. Order from BSRA as No. 54,169.

• Corporate Authors:

  Maclaren Publishers Limited

  David House, 69-77 High Street
  Croydon C9 1QH,   England 
• Authors:
  • Hargreaves, MRO
  • JAMES, R W
• Publication Date: 1980-3

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 52
• Serial:
  • Refrigeration and Air Conditioning
  • Issue Number: 83
  • Publisher: Davis House

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Machinery; Microprocessors; Monitoring; Refrigeration (Vehicles); Refrigeration systems; Refrigerators
• Old TRIS Terms: Microprocessor applications
• Subject Areas: Bridges and other structures; Marine Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00323266
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: British Ship Research Association
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Feb 18 1981 12:00AM