Hu, Y;
Tan, CK;
Broughton, J;
Roach, PA;
Varga, L;
(2018)
Nonlinear dynamic simulation and control of large-scale reheating furnace operations using a zone method based model.
Applied Thermal Engineering
, 135
pp. 41-53.
10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2018.02.022.
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Abstract
Modern reheating furnaces are complex nonlinear dynamic systems having heat transfer performances which may be greatly influenced by operating conditions such as stock material properties, furnace scheduling and throughput rate. Commonly, each furnace is equipped with a tailored model predictive control system to ensure consistent heated product quality such as final discharge temperature and temperature uniformity within the stock pieces. Those furnace models normally perform well for a designed operating condition but cannot usually cope with a variety of transient furnace operations such as non-uniform batch scheduling and production delay from downstream processes. Under these conditions, manual interventions that rely on past experience are often used to assist the process until the next stable furnace operation has been attained. Therefore, more advanced furnace control systems are useful to meet the challenge of adapting to those circumstances whilst also being able to predict the dynamic thermal behaviour of the furnace. In view of the above, this paper describes in detail an episode of actual transient furnace operation, and demonstrates a nonlinear dynamic simulation of this furnace operation using a zone method based model with a self-adapting predictive control scheme. The proposed furnace model was found to be capable of dynamically responding to the changes that occurred in the furnace operation, achieving about ±10 °C discrepancies with respect to measured discharge temperature, and the self-adapting predictive control scheme is shown to outperform the existing scheme used for furnace control in terms of stability and fuel consumption (fuel saving of about 6%).
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Nonlinear dynamic simulation and control of large-scale reheating furnace operations using a zone method based model |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2018.02.022 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2018.02.0... |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2018 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
| Keywords: | Zone method, Reheating furnace, Hybrid model, Nonlinear dynamic simulation, Self-adapting predictive control |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Civil, Environ and Geomatic Eng |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10066200 |
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