Abstract:Due the control system for the natural gas distribution site has a direct impact on the system safety and normal operation, the valve control method is of vital importance. For now, the common control strategy widely used in current field sites is the PID based control strategy using PLC controllers. For this control strategy, the low control precision and long tuning period is the major drawback, especially in the case of peak time and large disturbance in upstream and downstream flowrate and pressure. To improve the control effect, we analyze the root cause of the poor control performance and propose a feedforward and backward based control strategy. Moreover, to improve the robustness of the control strategy, an updating strategy for the feedforward control law is proposed to disperse the influence by the dynamic variation in control valve. Finally, a case study and simulation comparison is given based on the Stoner Pipeline Simulator platform. The simulation result shows that the proposed control strategy outperforms the traditional strategy in both control stability and stabilizing time. The proposed control strategy has a promising field application future.