Modeling and Control of a Single-Phase Marine Cooling System

This paper presents two model-based control design approaches for a single-phase marine cooling system. Models are derived from first principles and aim at describing significant system dynamics including nonlinearities and transport delays, while keeping the model complexity low. The two approaches investigated are: A baseline design for performance comparison, and a nonlinear robust control design. Performance and robustness of performance for the two control designs are evaluated through a simulation example. Both designs show good robustness towards parameter variations, while the nonlinear robust design performs better in terms of disturbance rejection.