Strategy for Controlling the Level in a Dissolved Air Flotation Chamber.pdfVIP

J．Chem．Chem．Eng．9352 doi：10．17265／1934．7375／2015．O5．006 r【 r【 3 1J m m S 1J StrategyforControllingtheLevelinaDissolvedAir FlotationChamber RodrigoAlmeidaGaldino，Alex Elton deMoura2一 ValdemirAlexandredosSantos，。andLeonieAsfora ， Sarubbo， ． CenterforSciencesandTechnology,CatholicUniversityofPernambuco，Recfie-PE50．050-900,Brazil 2．CenterforTechnoloygandGeosciences，FederalUniversiytofPernambuco，Recife-PE50．050-900，Brazil 3．Centerfo，Technoloyg andInnovationManagement,Recfie-PE50．050-900,Brazil Abstract：Theaim ofthepresentstudy wasto implantanem cientstrategY forcontrollingtheleveloftheeffluent．oily ofam interfaceinaDAF(dissolvedairfotation)chma berofapilot．scaleprototype．DAFhasbeensuccessfullyusedintherteatmentof oily water．which isoneofhtemainenvironmentalproblemsindifferentindustrialfacilities．Alongwith importantoperational parameters．suchasmicrobubblesizeandflow rate．thecontro1strategyforhteautomationofaDAFchambermaybeanimportnat toolofrincreasingefnciency．Controllingthelevelwasthestrategychosentoenhancetheseparationefficiencyinapilot．scaleDAF protoytpe，wiht monitoringperformedusingacomputationalprogram inLabVIEW (1aboratoryvirtualinstrumentengineering workbench)．Thefindingsdemonstratethatitispossibletomaintainthelevelofthefluidatareferencevalueestablishedbythe operatorusingthesoftwareprogram throughtheapplicationofclassicproportionalintergalderivativ