WO2009076198A1 - A system and method for full combustion optimization for pulverized coal-fired steam boilers - Google Patents
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- PCFB pulverized coal-fired boiler
- methods typically involve the use of advanced model-predictive control, and/or neural net-based controls, to monitor, balance and control the admittance of fuel and air to various stages of the boiler, including primary, secondary, overfire, and underfire air controls.
- Other variables such as burner tilts and attemperator spray flows may be controlled as well, in order to optimize the combustion process.
- attemperators reduce the steam temperature by bringing superheated steam into direct contact with water. The steam is cooled through the evaporation of the water.
- combustion process should be controlled and optimized to obtain the "best possible" performance thereby meeting in an economically and/or environmentally optimized fashion the competing goals of NOx reduction, CO and unburned fuel reduction, and heat rate improvement.
- this optimization is in large part limited by physical process parameters that the system used to optimize combustion often does not have the ability to control.
- FIG. 1 One example of a system 1 using such prior art control techniques without coal flow management is shown in the air and fuel flow diagram of Fig. 1.
- the system 1 of Fig. 1 usually includes a distributed control system (DCS) to control the process such as the DCS 14 shown in Fig. 2 and may also include a combustion control and optimization system (COS) such as the COS 12 shown in that figure.
- DCS distributed control system
- COS combustion control and optimization system
- ambient air enters the system 1 on the left hand side of the diagram. Most of this air becomes primary air whose main function is to carry the pulverized fuel out of the one or more coal pulverizers 2.
- the air and pulverized fuel must be in a stoichiometric ratio at the burners 4 and that mix is obtained by adding secondary ambient air as shown on the right hand side of the diagram.
- Fig. 1 also shows several dampers 6a, 6b, 6c and 6d that are associated with the flow of air.
- Damper 6a known as the hot air damper
- Damper 6b known as the cold air damper
- Damper 6c known as the primary air damper
- Damper 6d provides secondary heated air in the secondary air duct 8 to the burners 4.
- the major adjustment to these dampers 6a, 6b, 6c and 6d are load related and the signals to make that adjustment come from a distributed control system such as DCS 14 of Fig. 2.
- the present invention provides an improved combustion optimization system that is designed to monitor, modify and control the combustion process, including the load-varying air- fuel mixing and homogenization processes.
- a system for controlling a pulverized coal-fired boiler having at least one pulverizer for pulverizing coal and forming an air and coal mixture, a plurality of burners, each said burner fed said air and coal mixture by a burner line.
- the system includes a combustion optimization system having a combustion model of the pulverized coal-fired boiler.
- a distributed control system is in communication with the combustion optimization system and receives control commands from the combustion optimization system.
- a coal flow sensor is positioned to monitor the velocity of the air and coal mixture fed into each burner.
- An air flow homogenizer is positioned downstream of the pulverizer and includes a splitter for separating the air and coal mixture into the burner lines.
- the splitter has a plurality of dampers to control the flow of the air and coal mixture flowing to the burners.
- the distributed control system controls the position of the dampers in a closed loop fashion using a signal indicative of the present position of the dampers m combination with signals from the coal flow sensors .
- Figure 1 is a partially schematic view of a prior art pulverized coal-fired boiler
- FIG 2 is a schematic view of a COS and DCS control system for a pulverized coal-fired boiler;
- Figure 3 is a coal flow monitoring sensor;
- Figure 4 is a partially schematic view of a pulverized coal- fired boiler control system according to the present invention.
- Figure 5 is a process flow chart for the pulverized coal-fired boiler control system.
- System 10 includes an advanced Combustion Control and Optimization System (COS) 12.
- COS models the multiva ⁇ able nonlinear relationships of the combustion process. The relationships between signals/parameters are identified by analyzing their historical data.
- COS 12 is based on advanced model predictive control techniques and uses the combustion model and a cost function that describes the weighted customer optimization targets to provide setpoint and setpoint bias values 18 to the distributed control system (DCS) 14 of system 10.
- DCS 14 includes operator setpoints and provides process values 20 to COS 12.
- COS 12 has a model of the process and has as inputs the constraint variable limits 22, the controlled variable targets 24 and the manipulated variable targets and limits 26.
- COS 12 is the Optimax Combustion Optimizer System, available from ABB.
- the DCS 14 is connected to the boiler and final control elements 16 of system 10.
- the DCS 14 provides the multiple boiler control values 28, the air damper position 30 and the coal/air gate position 32 to the boiler and final control elements 16.
- the boiler process, with instrumentation and final control elements 16, also includes various instruments that provide the process values 34 to the DCS 14.
- the DCS 14 controls the process by sending control signals to the final control elements.
- the instruments may for example include flame detectors such as those that detect the presence or absence of flame and also measure the quality of the flame. This flame quality measurement can be used to ensure that the combustion process is operating efficiently.
- One example of such a flame detector is the UvisorTM SF810i system available from ABB that provides m a single housing both flame detection and a measurement of the quality of the flame.
- a suitable solution for monitoring the quality of the flame such as the Flame Explorer which is also available from ABB.
- the instruments may also include a system that has sensors to measure the velocity of the pulverized coal feeds into the boiler, the concentration of coal therein and optionally temperature.
- This system uses the input from the sensors to provide closed loop combustion optimization of boilers fired with pulverized coal.
- a system is the PfMaster system available from ABB that with one signal processing unit can measure up to 24 pulverized fuel (pf) burner feeds.
- pf pulverized fuel
- FIG. 4 An air and fuel flow diagram for system 10 is shown in Fig. 4. As shown therein, system 10 includes everything shown in Fig. 1 and also has the following elements that are not in the prior art diagram of Fig. 1: (a) An air-fuel flow homogenizer 40 that has a fuel flow splitter with dampers (identified in Fig. 4 as control-gate dampers 42) in the burner lines 7 from the pulverizer 2 to control the flow of the homogenized air-fuel mixture of pulverized coal to two or more of the burners 4 of the boiler. (b) A flame scanner 46 with a combustion index which may for example be the flame scanner described above, (c) Coal flow sensors 48 which monitor each of the burner lines.
- a An air-fuel flow homogenizer 40 that has a fuel flow splitter with dampers (identified in Fig. 4 as control-gate dampers 42) in the burner lines 7 from the pulverizer 2 to control the flow of the homogenized air-fuel mixture of pulverized coal to two or more of the burner
- Sensors 48 may measure velocity, coal concentration and temperature with a single sensor.
- the air dampers 6a, 6b, 6c and 6d shown in Fig. 4 are controlled by the DCS 14.
- the dampers of the splitter 42 are manually configured at one load condition.
- the position setting of the dampers of the splitter 42 are controlled by the DCS 14.
- DCS 14 provides closed loop control of the dampers for splitters 42 by using a signal indicative of their present position in combination with signals from the coal flow monitoring system.
- Positioner and actuator devices such as those available from ABB provide the signal indicative of the damper position and to move the associated damper to the setpoint from DCS 14.
- the controlled diversion of the homogenized air-fuel mixture results in a balanced delivery of air and fuel to individual burners 4 within the burner array with appropriate stoichiometric ratios. Additionally, the COS 12 can modify the overall air-fuel delivery profile to the burner array such that the best burner input flows amongst the burners 4 in the array may be achieved for a given load.
- an air-fuel flow homogenizer 40 is the variable area rope breaker system PF diffusing system available from Greenbank Terotech Ltd.
- One example of a fuel flow splitter 42 with dampers is the coal flow control gate splitter also available from Greenbank . As is described above, the coal flow control gate dampers in splitter 42 are controlled by COS 12 of system 10 through the DCS 14.
- the conversion of the fuel flow splitter 42 to closed-loop controlled operation provides for the initial balancing of the air-fuel mixture to the burners 4 fed by its piping. This achieves the capability to dynamically balance the air-fuel flow to individual burners of the PCFB under varying load conditions. These varying load conditions affect the incoming two-phase distribution of air and fuel and create the need for a dynamic response over the desired load range.
- the coupling of the local closed-loop controls of the fuel flow splitter 42, to the COS 12 creates the following additional benefits which are beyond what any one of the separate elements can provide alone: (a) Complete monitoring and control of the combustion process, from the initial mixing of fuel with air m a homogenized and ratio- balanced fashion, through the required distribution to various burners within the PCFB, and finally the controlled ignition and optimized combustion of the air-fuel stream within the confines of the boiler interior, (b) The ability to dynamically create, monitor and control relative air-fuel flows between the multiple-burners of a PCFB, such that load-induced effects from the pulverization, air-induction, and flame creation processes can be manipulated and optimized to obtain true "best possible" performance, such that the competing goals of NOx reduction, CO and unburned fuel reduction, and heat rate improvement, are met in an economically and/or environmentally optimized fashion. (c) The capabilities as described above can be achieved in an automated fashion, where the operators of the PCFB have a substantially reduced need to manually balance and
- a flow chart of system 10 is shown in Fig. 5.
- the COS 12 provides, in response to the external load demand and process values, states and control modes from DCS 14 both real-time optimization and advanced process control to DCS 14.
- DCS 14 controls the actuators that are used to position the dampers shown in Fig. 4 and sensors provide process related values such as coal flow and flame detection and guality.
- the monitoring of flame status and quality insures that individual burners are performing as expected, with the MPC model from COS 12 tracking the correlation of combustion index with individual burner load and performance.
- the present invention provides over the prior art, substantially improved combustion efficiencies and unit heat rate, and the reduction and control of emissions to acceptable levels. Additional benefits may include the mitigation of costly fan- limited operation, due to the overall lowering of resistance in the air-fuel paths between pulverizers and burners.
- the advantages provided by the system of the present invention include, reductions in LOI (Loss on ignition- i.e. unburned fuel and wastage) , reduced or eliminated use of auxiliary (co-firing) fuels during low loads, reduced waterwall wastage due to CO rich "dark zones", and reduced emissions (C02, CO and NOx) .
- Further PCFB operational improvements which can result from the use of the present invention include, improved unit heat rate (thermal efficiency) , improved unit ramp rate, improved flame and fireball stability over a much wider load range, elimination of some/all riffle boxes for fuel distribution, with improved draft fan efficiency results, and controllable variations in the air/fuel ratio to adapt to boiler load conditions.
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