1. Enhanced single-loop control of a moving bed temperature swing adsorption CO2 capture process.
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Skjervold, Vidar T. and Nord, Lars O.
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CARBON sequestration , *MOVING bed reactors , *CARBON dioxide adsorption , *COAL-fired power plants , *TEMPERATURE control , *FLUE gases - Abstract
• Enhanced single-loop control approaches compared to proportional-integral scheme. • Efficient control demonstrated for several flexible power plant operation scenarios. • Adaptive tuning showed similar control performance with less aggressive input usage. • Combined feedback and feedforward structure improved control of sorbent temperature. • Measurement delays have a significant effect on the relative controller performance. Using a model in gPROMS, we study a Zeolite 13X-based moving bed temperature swing adsorption (MBTSA) process designed to capture CO 2 from a coal-fired power plant. Two enhanced single-loop control strategies were compared to a proportional-integral configuration for variations in power plant load, control variable setpoints, flue gas CO 2 concentration and external heat source temperature. Measurement delays were also investigated. Adaptive adjustment of controller parameters with system load gave smoother and narrower manipulated variable profiles and efficient CO 2 recovery setpoint tracking. The controller gain is the most important parameter for adaptive tuning. A combined feedback and feedforward scheme showed improved control of the regenerated sorbent temperature, possibly due to better decoupling of the higher-level control loops. When delays were considered, the investigated strategies significantly outperformed the reference case for CO 2 recovery control. The results demonstrate that the MBTSA process can be efficiently controlled for several disturbances and changes in operation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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