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AssigneeNederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek TNO
InventorLambertus Bernardus Maria van Kessel
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A control system for an incineration plant, comprising an incineration furnace with a combustion path along which the material to be burned is transported, air supply means, a steam generator, and control means with a steam controller and an oxygen controller which, depending on respectively the generated amount of steam and the oxygen in the furnace, generate control signals for adjusting the size and/or speed of a stream of material in the furnace and/or adjusting the air supplied. The control signals control the generated amount of steam to a first adjusting value and via air supplied the amount of oxygen to a second adjusting value. The steam controller controls a summing device which forms a sum signal used which via calculating means modifies the output signals of control circuits controlled by the output signal of the oxygen controller for the air supply to the furnace and/or the size of the supply stream of material to the furnace and the speed of the stream of material through the furnace respectively, to obtain definitive control signals.
A method for controlling a refuse incineration plant provided with a steam generator, wherein signals are generated which represent the amount of oxygen in the furnace of the incineration plant and the amount of generated steam, and wherein target values for the amount of oxygen in the furnace and the amount of generated steam are adjustable and difference signals representing the difference between the target values and the generated values are formed, characterized in that the difference signal representing the difference between the target value for the generated steam and the corresponding adjusting value is subjected to an integrating treatment and is added to the target value for the generated steam and that the thus obtained sum signal is used to modify a number of control signals for the plant, to obtain definitive control signals.
A control system for an incineration plant, such as for instance a refuse incineration plant, comprising an incineration furnace with an inlet for supplying material to be burned, an outlet for discharging burned material, a combustion path extending between the inlet and the outlet, and along which, in use, the material is transported in a direction of transport from the inlet to the outlet for combustion of the material, and air supply means for supplying air to the combustion path, the incineration plant further being provided with a steam generator for generating steam by means of heat generated in the furnace and control means comprising a steam controller and an oxygen controller which, depending on respectively the amount of steam generated by the steam generator and the amount of oxygen in the furnace, generate one or more control signals for adjusting the size and/or speed of a supply stream of the amount of material respectively to and through the furnace and/or for adjusting the amount of air supplied to the furnace by means of the air supply means, the control means adjusting the control signals such that the steam generator generates an amount of steam per time unit which optimally corresponds with a first predetermined adjusting value, and that the air supply means supply such an amount of air that an amount of oxygen is contained in the furnace which optimally corresponds with a second predetermined adjusting value, characterized in that the output signal of the steam controller is supplied to a summing device for forming a sum signal which is used to modify via corresponding calculating means the output signals of control circuits controlled by the output signal of the oxygen controller for the air supply to the furnace and/or the size of the supply stream of material to the furnace and the speed of the stream of material through the furnace respectively, to obtain definitive control signals.
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