Open AccessControl of the Bed Temperature of a Circulating Fluidized Bed Boiler by using Particle Swarm Optimization
Author(s) -
Hilmi Aygun,
Hüseyin Demirel,
Mihai Cernat
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
advances in electrical and computer engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.254
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 1844-7600
pISSN - 1582-7445
DOI - 10.4316/aece.2012.02005
Subject(s) - particle swarm optimization , fluidized bed combustion , boiler (water heating) , fluidized bed , environmental science , process engineering , waste management , control theory (sociology) , computer science , nuclear engineering , materials science , engineering , control (management) , algorithm , artificial intelligence
Circulating fluidized bed boilers are increasingly used in the power generation due to their higher combustion efficiency and lower pollutant emissions. Such boilers require an effective control of the bed temperature, because it influences the boiler combustion efficiency and the rate of harmful emissions. A Particle-Swarm-Optimization-Proportional-Integrative-Derivative (PSO-PID) controller for the bed temperature of a circulating fluidized bed boiler is presented. In order to prove the capability of the proposed controller, its performances are compared at different boiler loads with those of a Fuzzy Logic (FL) controller. The simulation results demonstrate some advantages of the proposed controller