TY - GEN
T1 - Design of a Supervisory Control System for a Clinker Kiln Operation
AU - Colina, Eliezer
AU - Falconí, Mara
AU - Morocho, Villie
AU - Medina, José
AU - Mora, Alfredo
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 IEEE.
PY - 2015/10/1
Y1 - 2015/10/1
N2 - The Clinker kiln is the core of the cement production process, which is a heavy infrastructure, where a mixture of limestone and clay undergoes physical and chemical transformations at high temperatures. The process has a very complex non-linear behavior, which hinders its control automatically. This article presents the design of a fuzzy logic-based supervisory system for control tasks upon the Clinker kiln operation [1]. The proposed supervisory system, which has been tested offline in an industrial kiln, uses process variables as the temperature in the burning area, the percentage of oxygen and the back-end temperature, to take appropriate control actions to face operating kiln conditions. The considered control variables in the design are the fuel flow to the burner, the air fan speed and the kiln rotational speed. As a result, the supervisory control system tests showed an improvement in kiln stability and clinker production.
AB - The Clinker kiln is the core of the cement production process, which is a heavy infrastructure, where a mixture of limestone and clay undergoes physical and chemical transformations at high temperatures. The process has a very complex non-linear behavior, which hinders its control automatically. This article presents the design of a fuzzy logic-based supervisory system for control tasks upon the Clinker kiln operation [1]. The proposed supervisory system, which has been tested offline in an industrial kiln, uses process variables as the temperature in the burning area, the percentage of oxygen and the back-end temperature, to take appropriate control actions to face operating kiln conditions. The considered control variables in the design are the fuel flow to the burner, the air fan speed and the kiln rotational speed. As a result, the supervisory control system tests showed an improvement in kiln stability and clinker production.
KW - Clinker kiln
KW - fuzzy logical system
KW - Supervisory control system
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U2 - 10.1109/APCASE.2015.75
DO - 10.1109/APCASE.2015.75
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84959328285
T3 - Proceedings - 2015 Asia-Pacific Conference on Computer-Aided System Engineering, APCASE 2015
SP - 387
EP - 391
BT - Proceedings - 2015 Asia-Pacific Conference on Computer-Aided System Engineering, APCASE 2015
A2 - Sanchez, Alberto
A2 - Monsalve, Carlos
A2 - Chaczko, Zenon
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - Asia-Pacific Conference on Computer-Aided System Engineering, APCASE 2015
Y2 - 14 July 2015 through 16 July 2015
ER -