Method for controlling coal supply quantity during transient load-varying process considering exergy storage correction of boiler system of coal-fired unit

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11204162-B2
Application number	US-201917284785-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 22, 2019
Priority date	Mar 13, 2019
Publication date	Dec 21, 2021
Grant date	Dec 21, 2021

Abstract

A method for controlling a coal supply quantity during a transient load-varying process considering exergy storage correction of a boiler system of a coal-fired unit is provided. Temperatures and pressures of working fluid and metal heating surface of the boiler system of the coal-fired unit are measured and recorded in real-time, and converted into the exergy storage amount at different operating load points. During the transient operation process, the real-time exergy storage amount of the boiler system is compared with the exergy storage amount at the corresponding steady-state load point, and the real-time exergy storage variation is obtained; thereafter, the feed-forward control signal of coal supply quantity input is superposed to the existing coal supply quantity command of the boiler system, and the coal supply quantity signal of the boiler system based on the exergy storage correction is finally generated.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for controlling a coal supply quantity during a transient load-varying process considering exergy storage correction of a boiler system of a coal-fired unit, which adopts an exergy storage variation between steady-state and transient load-varying processes of the boiler system of the coal-fired unit as a feed-forward signal of main-steam temperature control of the boiler system, so as to correct the coal supply quantity of the boiler system during the transient load-varying process, comprising steps of:
(1) obtaining an exergy storage amount of each thermodynamic device of the boiler system of the coal-fired unit, particularly comprising steps of:
for an i th boiler superheater, obtaining a pressure P s,i of working fluid in the i th boiler superheater through a pressure sensor, and obtaining a temperature T s,i of the working fluid and a temperature T w,i of a metal heating surface of the i th boiler superheater through temperature sensors; looking up a calculation table of water and steam properties, and calculating a total exergy storage amount Ex i of the i th boiler superheater in a current state; wherein: the total exergy storage amount Ex i comprises an exergy storage amount of the working fluid and an exergy storage amount of the metal heating surface;
Ex i =Ex s,i +Ex m,i ;
Ex s,i =M s ·[ u ( P s,i ,T s,i )− u 0 −T 0 ·( s ( P s,i ,T s,i )− s 0 )];

Ex m,i =M m ·C m [ T m,i −T 0 −T 0 ·ln( T m,i /T 0 )];

in the formulas, Ex s,i and Ex m,i are respectively the exergy storage amounts of the working fluid and the metal heating surface in the i th boiler superheater, in unit of kJ; M s and M m are respectively a mass of the working fluid and a mass of the metal heating surface of the i th boiler superheater, in unit of kg; T 0 is an ambient temperature, in unit of K; u 0 is a corresponding enthalpy under the ambient temperature and an ambient pressure, in unit of kJ/kg; s 0 is a corresponding entropy under the ambient temperature and the ambient pressure, in unit of kJ/(kg·K); u(P s,i , T s,i ) is an internal energy of the working fluid, which is calculated through the pressure P s,i of the working fluid and the temperature T s,i of the working fluid, in unit of kJ; s(P s,i , T s,i ) is an entropy of the working fluid, which is calculated through the pressure P s,i of the working fluid and the temperature T s,i of the working fluid, in unit of kJ/(kg·K); C m is a specific heat capacity of the metal heating surface of the i th boiler superheater, in unit of kJ/(kg·K); and T m,i is an average temperature of the metal heating surface of the i th boiler superheater, in unit of K;
the boiler system consists of a plurality of thermodynamic devices, so that a total exergy storage amount Ex of the boiler system is a sum of the exergy storage amounts of the thermodynamic devices,

Ex
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wherein:
in the formula, Ex is the total exergy storage amount of the boiler system, and n is a total number of the thermodynamic devices of the boiler system;
(2) obtaining a real-time exergy storage variation of the boiler system of the coal-fired unit during the transient load-varying process, particularly comprising steps of:
firstly, according to temperature and pressure data of each thermodynamic device when the boiler system operates at each steady-state load point, obtaining a steady-state exergy storage amount Ex t,0 of the boiler system; during a transient operation process of the coal-fired unit, according to measured real-time temperature and pressure data of each thermodynamic device, obtaining a real-time exergy storage amount Ex t,1 of the boiler system; and obtaining the real-time exergy storage variation ΔEx t of the boiler system through a comparator, ΔEx t =Ex t,0 −Ex t,1 ;
(3) generating a feed-forward control signal based on the real-time exergy storage variation of the boiler system, particularly comprising steps of:
according to the obtained real-time exergy storage variation ΔEx t of the boiler system, obtaining a feed-forward control signal of a coal supply quantity input, ΔB=ΔEx t ·ξ; wherein:
in the formula, ΔB is the feed-forward control signal of the coal supply quantity input, and ξ is a conversion coefficient; and
(4) correcting the coal supply quantity of the boiler system during the load-varying process, particularly comprising steps of:
superposing the feed-forward control signal ΔB of the coal supply quantity input to an uncorrected coal supply quantity command B of the boiler system, and finally generating a corrected coal supply quantity signal B′ of the boiler system based on the exergy storage correction of the boiler system, B′=B+ΔB.

2. The method, as recited in claim 1 , wherein: during a load-increasing process, the steady-state exergy storage amount of the boiler system is larger than the real-time exergy storage amount at an operating load point, so that the conversion coefficient ξ is positive; the feed-forward control signal accelerates coal supply, so as to ensure that an outlet steam parameter of the coal-fired unit maintains a high level and improve economy of the coal-fired unit;
during a load-decreasing process, the steady-state exergy storage amount of the boiler system is smaller than the real-time exergy storage amount at the operating load point, so that the conversion coefficient ξ is negative; the feed-forward control signal decelerates coal supply, so as to prevent over-temperature of each thermodynamic device and the outlet steam parameter of the coal-fired unit and improve safety of the coal-fired unit.

Assignees

• Univ Xi An Jiaotong

Inventors

• Liu Ming
• Zhao Yongliang
• Yan Junjie
• Chong Daotong

Classifications

• F22B35/18 Primary

  Applications of computers to steam-boiler control · CPC title

• G05B2219/2639

  Energy management, use maximum of cheap power, keep peak load low · CPC title

• G05B19/0426 Primary

  Programming the control sequence · CPC title

• G05B19/042

  using digital processors (G05B19/05 takes precedence) · CPC title

• G05B13/02

  electric · CPC title