Improved economic operation of MSWC plants with a new model based PID control strategy

M. Leskens; P.P. van 't Veen; L.B.M. van Kessel; O.H. Bosgra; P.M.J. van den Hof

doi:10.3182/20100705-3-BE-2011.00109

Improved economic operation of MSWC plants with a new model based PID control strategy

M. Leskens, P.P. van 't Veen, L.B.M. van Kessel, O.H. Bosgra, P.M.J. van den Hof

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Abstract

Municipal solid waste combustion (MSWC) plant operators are currently under an increasing pressure to optimize the economic performance of their plants. A route with high potential for optimizing this performance is by improving the performance of the MSWC plant combustion control system, which typically is of the PID-type. In this paper, motivated by the industrial need to improve the overall economic MSWC plant performance, a model based approach is taken to optimize this control system, using recently derived black and white box MSWC plant models. More specific, from a closer analysis of the dynamics of these models a new PID-type of MSWC plant combustion control strategy is derived. It is shown that this new control strategy has improved setpoint tracking properties compared to PID-type of combustion control strategies typically encountered in the industry. As a result, a significant improvement of the economic performance of an MSWC plant will be obtained when replacing such a control strategy for the new one. However, no improvement of the disturbance rejection properties of existing PID-type of combustion control strategies has been observed with the new control strategy, which would also lead to a significant improvement of the economic performance of an MSWC plant, indicating that other, non-PID, types of combustion control strategies are required for that.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	655-660
Number of pages	6
Journal	IFAC Proceedings Volumes
Volume	9
Issue number	PART 1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3182/20100705-3-BE-2011.00109
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2010
Externally published	Yes
Event	9th IFAC International Symposium on Dynamics and Control of Process Systems, DYCOPS 2010 - Leuven, Belgium Duration: 5 Jul 2010 → 7 Jul 2010 Conference number: 9

Funding

This work has been part of the “NextGenBioWaste” project, co-funded by the European Commission under the Sixth Framework Programme.

Keywords

Combustion
Model based control
Modeling
Municipal solid waste
PID-control

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