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The ALSTOM benchmark challenge on gasifier control

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posted on 2017-10-13, 15:52 authored by Roger Dixon, A.W. Pike, M.S. Donne
Integrated gasification combined cycle power plants are being developed around the world to provide environmentally clean and efficient power generation from coal. As part of the UK’s Clean Coal Power Generation Group, ALSTOM (formerly GEC ALSTHOM ) has undertaken a detailed feasibility study on the development of a small-scale prototype integrated plant (PIP), based on the air-blown gasification cycle. In pursuit of this goal the ALSTOM Power Technology Centre (formerly the GEC ALSTHOM Mechanical Engineering Centre) has produced a comprehensive dynamic model and control philosophy for the PIP. The gasifier is one component of the model which, being a highly coupled multi-variable system with five inputs (coal, limestone, air, steam and char extraction) and four outputs (pressure, temperature, bed mass and gas quality), has been found to be particularly difficult to control. For this reason the gasifier, together with its associated control specification, operating constraints and various disturbance characteristics, has been selected as the subject for this control challenge. This paper provides a brief background to the problem and describes the control specification and closed-loop tests to be performed.

Funding

The authors would like to acknowledge the financial assistance of the European Community THERMIE programme, under Grant SF/00257/97/FR/GB.

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School

  • Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering

Published in

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers

Volume

214

Issue

1

Pages

389 - 394

Citation

DIXON, R., PIKE, A.W. and DONNE, M.S., 2000. The ALSTOM benchmark challenge on gasifier control. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part I: Journal of Systems and Control Engineering, 214 (6), pp. 389-394.

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SAGE © IMechE

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  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

2000

Notes

This paper was accepted for publication in the journal Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part I: Journal of Systems and Control Engineering and the definitive published version is available at https://doi.org/10.1243/0959651001540744.

ISSN

0959-6518

eISSN

2041-3041

Language

  • en

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