Modeling Identification and Control of an Air Preheating Furnace of a Pneumatic Conveying and Drying Process

The present work uses a scale down industrial pneumatic conveying and drying system in order to develop control-oriented models and suitable robust control strategies for the air preheating furnace of the system. A better control system has been achieved by utilizing the benefits of integrating first principle models, system identification techniques and parametric robust control methods. Though these processes are widely used in drying and transmission of different food, pharmaceutical and industrial products in the form of powder like fine-grained material, but suitable control oriented thermal models for these processes have not been studied. In the work the air preheating furnace of a pneumatic conveying and drying system is initially modeled with first principles. The novel dynamic models derived from first-principles is intended to evaluate dynamic changes in outlet air temperature corresponds to changes in current input to heating coils, air flow velocity and ambient temperature. Then a continuous ...

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