Unburned carbon in ash prediction in pulverized coal utility boilers. Analysis and assessment of operation strategies.

The predictive system developed in this Thesis has the same structure as the so-called combustion kinetics models, however, it obtains the fluid and thermal description through CFD simulations. To solve the handicap of the high computational cost needed to run a CFD simulation, a neural network syst...

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Autores: Pallarés Ranz, Javier, Arauzo Pelet, Inmaculada
Tipo de documento: dissertação
Estado:Versão publicada
Data de publicação:2008
País:España
Recursos:Universidad de Zaragoza
Repositório:Zaguán. Repositorio Digital de la Universidad de Zaragoza
OAI Identifier:oai:zaguan.unizar.es:3360
Acesso em linha:http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/3360
Access Level:Acceso aberto
Palavra-chave:Unburned carbon
Coal combustion modelling
CFD
Neural networks
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Resumo:The predictive system developed in this Thesis has the same structure as the so-called combustion kinetics models, however, it obtains the fluid and thermal description through CFD simulations. To solve the handicap of the high computational cost needed to run a CFD simulation, a neural network system is used to reproduce the solutions given by the CFD code. Moreover, a neural network system permits to interpolate in the range of variation used during the training stage, and thus, a predictive system covering the whole operational range of the plant is obtained.