Absorption refrigeration system (ARS) continuously shows a growing interest in many applications due to cheap energy consumption and environmental friendly system. Typically, ARS system uses ammonia-water mixture where ammonia as refrigerant and water as absorbent. The system also consist hydrogen as auxiliary inert gas. While in this research, it is operated by using liquefied petroleum gas (L...

This paper studies a planning problem for heating water. Hereby, boilers (e.g. gas or electric boilers, heat pumps or microCHPs) are used to heat the water and store it for domestic demands. We consider a simple boiler which is either turned on or turned off and has a buffer of limited capacity. The energy needed to run the boiler has to be bought on a day-ahead market, so we are interested in ...

In this paper a neuro-predictive method is proposed in order to control the water level in the steam drum boiler system being in use at a Power Plant of Iaşi, Romania. The steam boiler provides thermal and electrical power and it works under complex technology in order to satisfy numerous technical, security and economical requirements. A nonlinear dynamic simulator for the proposed steam drum ...

According to the characteristics of boiler combustion process, we use image processing technique to extract features that characterize the features of flame. On requirements of good real-time performance boiler burning diagnose system, we develop a set of PC add DSP real-time image acquisition and burning diagnosis system on the 200MW boilers. The results show that the system is simple, practic...

An adaptive predictive control methodology is applied for a fossil fuel boiler control. The control algorithm takes advantage of a neuro-fuzzy identifier system for prediction of the boiler response in a future time window. An optimizer algorithm based on evolutionary programming technique (EP) uses the identifier-predicted outputs and determines input sequence in a time window. The present opt...

National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) has signed an MoU with Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) for design and development of automated boiler tube inspection system for vertical water wall tubes. A vertical climbing robot has been developed for this purpose at Division of Remote Handling & Robotics (DRHR), BARC. Recently, an Electromagnetic Acoustic Transducer (EMAT) has been integrated ...

BACKGROUND Flow sheet options for integrating ethanol production from spent sulfite liquor (SSL) into the acid-based sulfite pulping process at the Sappi Saiccor mill (Umkomaas, South Africa) were investigated, including options for generation of thermal and electrical energy from onsite bio-wastes, such as bark. Processes were simulated with Aspen Plus® for mass- and energy-balances, followed ...

nowadays, energy plays an important role in the economic and community development of country. consequently, performance analysis of energy systems is one of the effective methods being used to prevent waste of energy resources. among the different power generation technologies, steam power plants make a significant contribution to power generation in iran, with a share of 47 % of electricity g...

In March 2008, Keppel Seghers started the engineering, supply, construction and commissioning of a Combined Heat and Power (CHP) Waste-to-Energy (WtE) plant in Åmotfors (Sweden). When completed in 2010 the plant will process close to 74,000 tons per year of household waste (average LHV = 10.5 MJ/kg) and limited quantities of (demolition) wood resulting in a yearly production of about 108,700 MW...

The paper discusses the features of the Biomass Boiler drum water level. Conventional PID Control System can not reach a satisfaction result in nonlinearity and time different from Biomass Boiler Drum Water Control System. In this study, a kind of fuzzy self-adaptive PID controller is described and this controller is used in biomass boiler’s drum water level control system. Using the simulink t...