An Intelligent Reference Governor for Primary Air Control System in a Circulating Fluidized Bed

Abstract:

In combustion of a circulating fluidized bed, primary air plays a key role in keeping materials fluidized and regulating bed temperature. This report provides a design of reference governor for primary air fans to amend their control commands. That will improve the combustion efficiency via regulating primary air flow rate timely according to the changes of coal feed flow rate and bed temperature. To deal with the large inertia and slow response feature of primary air fans, a rule-based control method was used to design the reference governor. Based on the experiences of technical experts and operation data analysis, an expert rules system with wide coverage range was developed, which composed of the logical relationships between the coal feed flow rate, bed temperature and the primary air flow rate in various operation conditions. Test results show that designed reference governor can improve the control performance of primary air flow rate obviously.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 719-720)
• Pages: 376-380
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.719-720.376
• Online since: January 2015
• Authors: Xu Sheng Zhuo*, Tong Li, Fan Yang, Dan Dan Wang
• Keywords: Anti-Windup, Circulating Fluidized Bed, Expert System Control, Primary Air System, Reference Governor

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