The Galway aquarium have asked you to build an energy model for a new tropical f

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The Galway aquarium have asked you to build an energy model for a new tropical fish-tank that they propose installing. See Fig. 1. This model will be used to assess the total electrical energy requirements to maintain tank temperature over the course of a year. The following inputs/assumptions are known: Tank initial Temp T-tank = 25 C Tank desired temperature is between 24C and 26C -Predicted air temperature T_air for the aquarium building is to be modelled by a square wave where temperature is 21 C during the opening hours of 6am-18:00pm and 15 C otherwise. See below Fig.2. Mass of water in tank M kg, specific heat capacity of water c_water J/KgK Thermal Resistance for the tank structure = R equiv Heating system pump delivers M kg/sec of water at 35 C to heat tank as required (ignores density changes) Assumption: The electrical power (J/s) needed to drive the pump can be approximated as P = M g h where is efficiency (-0.7), M is mass flowrate of water, g is gravity (9.8 m/s, and h= head of water in m (=1) Develop a high level Simulink model of the system and show separately the details of any subsystem. You should also develop a script that sets model parameters. Explain how you will feed these parameters into the model. The primary output of your model will be the accumulated energy (thermalpump electrical) in kWHr, needed to maintain the tank at the desired temperature over the year

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