Mapua Institute of Technology

School of Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering

EE113L

Instrumentation and Control

Laboratory
Experiment #6

Maintaining Pressure and

Level Control Using PID
Controller

November 24, 2015

December 1,

2015
Date Performed
Submitted

Date

Name: Bumanlag, Nexxus Von D.C.

Group No.: 4
Course and Section: EE113L/A6

GRADE

Engr. Catherine Salvador

Instructor
Objectives:
1. To demonstrate Pressure and Level Control Using PID controller.
2. To observe the behavior of the system when PID controller is varied.
3. To achieve stable and critical states at different selected gains of the controller.

Procedure
1. Start the program UCP.
2. Select control 3. Configure two parameters and indicate set point for one parameter.
Choose Level and Pressure.
3. Activate PID 1 and 2 controllers. Select combinations for P, PI, PD and PID that would
achieve steady state.
4. Activate single graph. Activate all the sensors.
5. Record data in table 1 for set point 1. Locate the proper combinations at which the system
is at critical state. Record data in table 1.
6. Observe the behavior of the system at different controller combinations for P, PI, PD and
PID.
7. Observe the error for each controller combination.
8. Repeat steps 2 to 7 for another set point. Record data in table 2.

Data

P
PD
PI
PID

Table 1
Set Point: 100mmHg, 130mm
STABLE
1, 5, 10
(1,1), (2,1), (1,2)
(1,1,1)

CRITICAL
(1,1), (5,5), (1,5)
(2, 2, 2), (1, 1, 2), (2, 1, 1)

P
PD
PI
PID

Table 2:
Set Point: 150mmHg, 180mm
STABLE
1, 5, 10
(1,1), (2,1), (1,2)
(1,1,1), (1, 2, 1)

CRITICAL
(1,1), (5,5), (1,5)
(2, 2, 2), (1, 1, 2), (2, 1, 1)

Graph:

(1,0,0)

(5,0,0)

(10,0,0)

(1,0,1)

(1,0,5)

(5,0,5)

(1,1,0)

(1,2,0)

(1,1,1)

(1,2,1)

(2,1,1)

(2,2,2)

Analysis/Discussion
Experiment 6 is all about Maintaining Pressure and Level Control Using PID Controller
just like the other experiment we use the control 3 for the PID usage, in this experiment there is
two variable, level and pressure. Maintaining pressure and level required two different PID
control for level and for the pressure, unfortunately there is only one control variable so we need
to choose for either level, flow or pressure. What we do is like the previous experiment the
pressure PID control but this time we are aware for the level where it settles the for pressure and
level. There is two tables to verify the answer with different trials for the set points.

For the first trial we set 100mmhg for pressure and 130 for the levefl so we determine the
P, PI, PD, and PID stability or criticality for the said values and analyze the graph it gives to the
monitor. When the graph is rise and contains few noise before it settles in short period of time it
is stable otherwise a lot of noise and it takes so much time to settles or not to become stable it is
the in critical. We analyze it by means of the graph shows with the different corresponding
combinational value for the PID control that affect the correcting factor.

Based from the data we gathered we set P and PI for different combination values and
find out that it will become stable, and also the PD that gives critical value but for the PID
control we set first it to (1, 1, 1) and it gives stable value with small noise same as (1, 2, 2) but
when we try different combination it gives critical so we decided to put it on critical table. So the
Program automatically adjust the %actuation value of the pump to correct it and gives result
according to the stability and criticality of the variable. We observed for the second part that is
just almost the same as part 1 but in here we have different set point from 150mmhg pressure and
180mm level we can get the same result. So in here we can analyze and determine how the gain
affects the value of
controller.

to achieve stable and critical states at different selected gains of the

Conclusion
After the experiment, the group were able to achieve the objectives which were to
demonstrate Pressure and Level Control Using PID controller, to observe the behavior of the
system when PID controller is varied, to achieve stable and critical states at different selected
gains of the controller. PID controllers are named after the Proportional, Integral and Derivative
control modes they have. They are used in most automatic process control applications in
industry.
From this experiment, the group were able to observe the behavior of the system when
the PID controller is varied. This is done through the various graph presented. The group were
able to accomplish the 2 parts of the experiments wherein they used PID to control pressure and
level at the same time. Despite the fact that the group were controlling pressure and level, still
the students were able to observe and to conclude that as the proportional gain increases, the
graph tend to have higher overshoot thus, the higher the chance of the system oscillating. Also,
as the integral gain increases, the faster the system moves to the set point which means that there
is an elimination in the steady state error. On the other hand, as the derivative gain increases, the
response of the system with the error increases gradually in a small unit of time. As for the 2
parameters being controlled, the pressure and the level, the system will be able to achieve the
desired value as it goes steady state. This will be true for the values of gain that will make the
system stable.
The students were also able to achieve the stable and critical state of the system at
different values of gains. The group were able to conclude that the proportional controller has a
stable response and drives the system to steady state as well as the proportional-integral
controller. Both the controller doesnt make the system unstable as it has no parameters that will
lead to critical state. The proportional-derivative controller makes the system critical which leads
to becoming unstable. The combination of proportional-integral-derivative controller has only

one parameter that will make the system stable and all other combination will lead the system to
critical and further become unstable.