SOFCOM - Self-optimising strategy for control of the combustion process

Continuous variations in coal type, fuel feed and feed distribution between several burners are often responsible for non-optimum combustion in large-scale power plants. Within the scope of the SOFCOM project a self-organising approach was developed for nearly full integration and evaluation of high-speed camera data. The self-organising and adaptive control structure using this extracted information is able to automatically adapt to changes of the combustion process.