Advanced Process Control for Fluidized Bed Agglomeration
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چکیده
Fluidized bed agglomeration is an advanced technology to produce spherical coarse-grained material of uniform size ready for sale without any need for post-treatment. This study discusses the possibilities and appropriateness of an intelligent control method such as a fuzzy logic controller in simulating and controlling fluidized bed agglomeration performance. Modeling and simulation was performed on the basis of data collected from several experiments. The resulting fuzzy controller is a knowledge-based system that performs closed-loop operations autonomously either by supervising or replacing conventional algorithms.
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