A real-time optimization method for economic and effective operation of electrostatic precipitators |
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| Authors: | Chenghang Zheng Zhongyang Zhao Yishan Guo Haitao Zhao Weiguo Weng Weihang Zhu |
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| Institution: | 1. State Key Laboratory of Clean Energy Utilization, State Environmental Protection Center for Coal-Fired Air Pollution Control, Zhejiang University , Hangzhou, People’s Republic of China;2. Department of Engineering Technology, University of Houston , Houston, TX, USA |
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| Abstract: | ABSTRACT Electrostatic precipitators (ESP) have been considered as the main particulate matter (PM) removal facility in the energy industry. This paper presents a real-time optimization method for a one-chamber industrial ESP in an ultra-low emission power plant with an intelligent optimization system (IOS). The IOS seeks to optimize the energy consumption of ESP subject to the outlet concentration requirement in real-time. A coordination control logic is designed to regulate the optimized operation set points with varying operation conditions. The operation optimized by the IOS is compared with the operations under PID (proportion-integral-derivative) and manual control. The results show that the IOS improves the emission compliance rate from 95% of manual control to 100% and the medium concentration is tuned to be 46.6% closer to the emission target. Furthermore, a good balance between emission and energy consumption is achieved, with 35.50% energy conservation for the same emission upper limit of 30 mg/m3. These results prove that the IOS significantly contributes to the efficient operation and economic PM removal by ESP for the energy industry. |
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