Pulp and paper mills are high power consuming industries. Pulp and integrated mills produce power via steam turbines in recovery boilers. Due to high power prices and the fact that biomass combusted in the recovery boiler is considered as green energy, there is today a desire to always increase the power generation when investing in new recovery boilers. In order to increase power output from t...

A fifth-order turbine-governor and a third-order oil-firing boiler model for a steam power plant are developed and combined into a complete plant model. A classical PID controller and an Optimal Integral Controller are applied to the plant model, and the results are compared for two different load levels and different kinds of disturbances. Special attention is given to the turbine throttle pre...

The water level of boiler drum is one of the crucial control parameters for any process industry which reflects the control of mainly boiler load and feed water indirectly. If the level exceeds the limits, boiler water carryover into the superheater or the turbine may cause damage resulting in extensive maintenance costs. If the level is low, overheating of the water wall tubes may cause tube r...

The water level in boiler drum is the critical control parameter to be addressed for providing the efficient and safe operation of steam generators in power plants. The regulation is achieved by using the Artificial Intelligence (AI) technique, namely, Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS). It has the capability of self-learning as ANN with the linguistic expression function of fuzzy in...

Multi-input multi-output (MIMO) dynamic matrix control (DMC) technique is applied to control steam temperatures in a large-scale ultrasupercritical once-through boiler–turbine system. Specifically, four output variables (i.e., outlet temperatures of platen superheater, finish superheater, primary reheater, and finish reheater) are controlled using four input variables (i.e., two spray valves, b...

The present paper describes the energy and exergy analysis of a reheat regenerative vapor power cycle. The plant consists of one boiler feed pump, one supercritical boiler, two steam turbines with a reheater in between, two feed water heaters (one open and one closed) and a condenser. The energy and exergy balance study has been carried-out for each component of the plant. Energy efficiency, ex...

A Takagi-Sugeno (T-S) fuzzy model is used to express non-linear dynamic systems with time-delay in this paper, and an on-line identi® cation algorithm is presented regarding its parameters and structures. A multivariable fuzzy generalized predictive control approach is proposed based on the identi® ed fuzzy model by means of the generalized predictive control principle. The closed-loop stabilit...

This paper discusses the application of artificial intelligence based model predictive control of boiler-turbine systems. In particular, it is investigating how genetic algorithms can be used to develop an online optimal control taking the model’s nonlinear constraints such as input saturation and rate limits into consideration. It is shown that the difficulties experienced in conventional cont...

Boiler-turbine units are multivariable nonlinear systems. The control of such systems is not easy considering the practical tuning, implementing and maintaining problems. In this paper, the design of a linear controller for the Dalate No.4 unit is reported. Based on a nonlinear model of the unit, we analyze the nonlinearity of the unit and propose to choose the appropriate operating points so t...