U-model enhanced dynamic control of a heavy oil pyrolysis/cracking furnace

Zhu, Quanmin; Zhao, D.Y.; Zhang, Shuzhan; Narayan, Pritesh

Abstract

This paper proposes a case study in the control of a heavy oil pyrolysis/cracking furnace with a newly extended U-Model based Pole Placement Controller (U-PPC). The major work of the paper includes: 1. establishing a control oriented nonlinear dynamic model with Naphtha cracking and thermal dynamics, 2. analysing a U-model (i.e. control oriented prototype) representation of various popular process model sets, 3. designing the new U-PPC to enhance the control performance in pole placement and stabilisation, 4) taking computational bench tests to demonstrate the control system design and performance with a user-friendly step by step procedure.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Apr 21, 2017
• Online Publication Date: Feb 8, 2018
• Publication Date: Mar 1, 2018
• Deposit Date: Apr 24, 2017
• Publicly Available Date: Apr 24, 2017
• Journal: IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica
• Print ISSN: 2329-9266
• Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 5
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 577-586
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/JAS.2017.7510847
• Keywords: heavy oil cracking furnace, Kumar molecular dynamics model for Naphtha cracking, U-model, U-model enhanced controller design, pole placement controller, stabilisation controller, computational experiments
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/876700
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/JAS.2017.7510847
• Contract Date: Apr 24, 2017