An Adaptive Dynamic Matrix Control of a Boiler-Turbine System

This paper proposes an adaptive Dynamic Matrix Control (DMC) and its application to boilerturbine system. In a conventional DMC, object system is described as a Step Response Model (SRM). However, a nonlinear system is not effectively described as a single SRM. In this paper, nine SRMs at various operating points are prepared. On-line interpolation is performed at every sampling step to find the suitable SRM. Therefore, the proposed adaptive DMC can consider the nonlinearity of boiler-turbine system. The simulation results show satisfactory results with a wide range operation of the boiler-turbine system.