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- This patent relates generally to computer software, and more particularly to computer software used in electric power generation systems.
- Electric power plants generate electricity using various types of power generators, which may be categorized, depending on the energy used to generate electricity, into thermal, nuclear, wind, hydroelectric, etc., generators.
- Each of these various types of generators operates under different sets of constraints.
- an output of a thermal generator is a function of the amount of heat generated in a boiler, wherein the amount of heat is determined by the amount of fuel that can be burned per hour, etc.
- the output of the thermal generator may also be dependent upon the heat transfer efficiency of the boiler used to burn the fuel.
- Similar types of constraints exist with other types of electric power plants.
- the desired steam temperature set-points at final superheater and reheater outlets are constant and it is necessary to maintain steam temperature close to the set-points within a narrow range at all load levels.
- Fuel burning electric power generators operate by burning fuel to generate steam from water traveling through a number of pipes and tubes in the boiler.
- the steam is used to generate electricity in one or more turbines.
- burning of certain types of fuel such as coal, oil, waste material, etc.
- burning of certain types of fuel also generates a substantial amount of soot, slag, ash and other deposits (“soot”) on various surfaces in the boilers, including the inner walls of the boiler as well as on the exterior walls of the tubes carrying the water through the boiler.
- soot deposited in the boiler has various deleterious effects on the rate of heat transfer from the boiler to the water and thus on the efficiency of power generators using the boilers.
- fuel burning power plants that burn coal, oil, and other such fuels that generate soot. It should be noted that while not all fuel burning power plants generate soot, for the remainder of this patent the term “fuel burning power plants” is used to refer to those power plants that generate soot.
- soot blowers are soot removing devices or equipment known as soot blowers as part of operating boilers.
- Fuel burning power plants use various types of soot blowers to spray cleaning materials through nozzles, which are located on the gas side of the boiler walls and/or on other heat exchange surfaces.
- soot blowers use any of the various media such as saturated steam, superheated steam, compressed air, water, etc., for removing soot from the boilers.
- soot blowing activity affects many aspects of boiler operations. For example, soot blowing affects heat transfer efficiency, steam temperature control, levels of NO x inside the boilers, etc.
- soot blowing in a water wall section of a boiler increases heat absorption rate in the water wall section, which reduces the temperature of the flue gas leaving the furnace section of the boiler.
- the flue gases entering the convection section may have a lower temperature, resulting in lower heat absorption in a superheat section and a reheat section of the boiler, and therefore, reducing the steam temperature in these sections as well.
- soot blowing in the convection section of a boiler increases the heat absorption rate, resulting in increased steam temperature.
- soot blowing Various qualitative effects of soot blowing are well known. However, it is difficult to determine precise quantitative impact of soot blowing on the efficiency and steam temperature of fuel burning power plants. Compensation techniques used by existing control systems include using a feedback PID controller that modulates at least one of spray flow levels, burner tilts, and flue gas bypass dampers, to compensate for the effect of soot blowing. However, often such feedback compensation action is reactionary and it may cause significant steam temperature swings. Therefore, it is necessary to develop a systematic method of constructing a feed-forward signal to compensate for the impacts of soot blowing.
- FIG. 1 illustrates a block diagram of a power distribution system
- FIG. 2 illustrates a block diagram of a boiler used in a fuel burning power plant
- FIG. 3 illustrates a flowchart of a soot blowing analysis program used by the boiler of FIG. 2 ;
- FIG. 4 illustrates a block diagram of a reheat (or superheat) section of the boiler of FIG. 2 ;
- FIG. 5 illustrates a graph showing an operation of the soot blowers of FIG. 4 ;
- FIG. 6 illustrates a time diagram of a feed-forward signal to be applied to spray controls used by the boiler of FIG. 4 ;
- FIG. 7 illustrates a flow chart of an evaluation program for determining whether a soot blowing sequence is a steam temperature influencing sequence or not.
- a system for analyzing the impact of operating soot blowers in a heat transfer section of a power plant determines a steam temperature influencing sequence and calculates a feed-forward signal to be applied to a steam temperature control system of the heat transfer section.
- the system operates a group of soot blowers a number of times and collects quantitative data related to the steam temperature during and after each soot blowing operation.
- a computer program used by the system analyzes the quantitative data, generates a number of statistical parameters for evaluating the impact of operating the soot blowers according to a given sequence on the steam temperature, and determines whether the given sequence is a steam temperature influencing sequence.
- the system determines a feed-forward signal based on the steam temperature influencing sequence and applies the feed-forward signal to a steam temperature control system used by the heat transfer section to compensate for any adverse impact of soot blowing.
- FIG. 1 illustrates a power distribution system 10 , including a power grid 12 that may be connected to a load grid 14 and one or more utility grids 16 , 18 .
- the utility grid 16 is connected to a second power grid 20
- the utility grid 18 is illustrated as being formed of one or more power plants 22 - 26 , which may include any of the various types of power plants such as nuclear power plants, hydroelectric power plants, thermal power plants, etc. Additionally, each of the power plants 22 - 26 may include any number of individual power generators.
- Operation of the utility grid 18 and the power plants 22 - 26 can be highly complex. As a result, to maintain the utility grid 18 running smoothly, it is necessary that each of the power plants 22 - 26 is managed with very high precision and in a highly predictable manner. To ensure that each of the power plants 22 - 26 can efficiently meet the power load required from them most efficiently, the power plants 22 - 26 use various control systems to ensure efficient operation throughout various sections of each of the power plants 22 - 26 .
- fuel burning power plants that use coal, oil, gas or other fuels to produce electricity use control systems to ensure the quality and quantity of the fuel injected into the furnaces, to ensure that the steam flow through various boilers is at optimum levels, etc.
- fuel burning power plants have one or more boilers where superheated steam is created by passing water through a series of tubes located inside the boiler. The superheated steam then enters a steam turbine where it powers the turbine and a generator connected to the turbine to produce electricity.
- soot, ash and other deposits that settle on the walls of the water carrying tubes result in reduction of heat transferred from the burning of fuel to the water and steam traveling through the tubes.
- soot blowers that routinely blow soot deposited on the tubes.
- FIG. 2 illustrates a cross sectional view of a typical boiler 100 and its associated soot blower system.
- the boiler 100 is used to generate saturated (or superheated for once-through boiler) steam in the furnace section 102 and superheated steam in a convection section 104 .
- the convection section 104 may include a superheat section and a reheat section.
- the boiler 100 includes a number of superheating and reheating tubes 106 located in the convection section 104 , where these tubes 106 are used to carry water and superheated steam.
- the boiler 100 is shown to have a number of fixed soot blowers 110 and a number of retractable soot blowers 112 .
- FIG. 3 illustrates a flowchart of a soot blowing analysis program 150 used for analyzing the impact of soot blowing on the operation of the boiler 100 by measuring its impact on the steam temperature of the superheated steam and/or the reheat steam.
- the analysis program 150 may be implemented as software, firmware, hardware or any combination thereof.
- the analysis program 150 operates the soot blowers of a given section of the boiler 100 a plurality of times, each operation of the soot blowers following a pre-determined pattern. During each of these operations, the analysis program 150 collects data related to various characteristics of the spray used by the soot blowers in the given section, such as the spray flow, etc., and its impact on steam temperature of the given section. After collecting the data, the analysis program 150 evaluates one or more statistical qualities of the collected data to determine a steam temperature influencing sequence, and using the steam temperature influencing sequence, the analysis program 150 determines a feed-forward signal to be used by a steam temperature control system used by the boiler 100 .
- a block 152 operates the soot blowers 110 and 112 based on a number of pre-determined soot blowing sequences. Because some of the boilers may already run soot blowers according to pre-established soot blowing procedures, it may be necessary to modify such procedures. Alternatively, the block 152 may select one or more soot blowing sequences currently used by the boiler and collect data related to these sequences. The block 152 may collect data using sequences that are specific to one or more sections of the boiler 100 , specific to one ore more types of soot blowers 110 - 112 , etc.
- the block 152 may use different sequences for collecting data related to soot blowers located in the furnace section 102 compared to the sequences used for collecting data related to the soot blowers located in the convection section 104 .
- the block 152 may collect data using different sequences for fixed soot blowers compared to the sequences used for retractable soot blowers.
- Each of the various sequences used by the analysis program 150 whether directed to a particular section of the boiler 100 or directed to a particular type of soot blowers, provides for operating a series of soot blowers in a specified manner.
- An exemplary implementation of applying soot blower sequences in a reheat section of the convection section 104 is illustrated in FIG. 4 .
- FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of a reheat section 200 having a heat exchanger 202 located in the path of flue gas from the boiler 100 .
- the reheat section 200 may be part of the convection section 104 of FIG. 2 .
- the heat exchanger 202 includes a number of tubes 204 for carrying steam which is mixed together with spray water in a mixer 206 .
- the heat exchanger 202 converts the mixture of the water and steam to superheated steam.
- the flue gases input to the reheat section 200 are shown schematically by the arrows 209 and the flue gases leaving the reheat section 200 are shown schematically by the arrows 211 .
- the reheat section 200 is shown to include six soot blowers 208 , 210 , 212 , 214 , 216 and 218 , for blowing a spray mixture to remove soot from the external surface of the heat exchanger 202 .
- the soot blowers 208 - 218 may be operated according to a particular soot blowing sequence, which specifies the order in which each of the soot blowers 208 - 218 is to be turned on. Once the soot blowers 208 - 218 are operated according to that particular sequence, the block 152 collects data regarding the temperature of steam in the reheat section 200 .
- the block 152 collects data related to operation of the soot blowers 208 - 218 and its impact on various characteristics of steam by operating the soot blowers 208 - 218 for an on time period and then turning off the soot blower 208 - 218 for an off time period.
- This is further illustrated in FIG. 5 by a graph 250 , where during the on time period 252 , the soot blowers 208 - 218 are operated according to a pre-determined soot blowing sequence and during an off time period 254 , the soot blowers 208 - 218 are turned off.
- the block 152 generally collects data representing the effect of soot blowing during the soot blowing period 252 and at the beginning of the off time period 254 .
- the number of times each of the various pre-determined sequences needs to be run before the collected data can be analyzed may be determined by the operator of the boiler 100 . However, typically, the pre-determined sequences need to be run for approximately thirty times to get statistically significant information about the impact of the soot blowing sequences on the steam temperature.
- a block 154 calculates various statistical parameters from the data collected by the block 152 .
- the block 154 calculates various statistical parameters related to the data collected for the i th sequence.
- STV pos,i,j is the positive steam temperature variance when the i th sequence runs at the j th time
- STV neg,i,j is the negative steam temperature variance when the i th sequence runs at the j th time
- T 0,i,j is the initial steam temperature when the i th sequence starts the j th time
- T max,i,j is the maximum steam temperature when the i th sequence runs at the j th time
- T min,i,j is the minimum steam temperature when the i th sequence runs at the j th time.
- STV avg,i,j is the average steam temperature when the i th sequence runs at the j th time and for the time period SIT i
- M is the number of sampling points during the time period SIT i
- T k,i,j is the steam temperature measurement when the i th sequence runs at the j th time and at a sampling time k.
- SFV pos,i,j F max,i,j ⁇ F 0,i,j
- SFV neg,i,j F min,i,j ⁇ F 0,i,j (5)
- SFV pos,i,j is the positive spray flow variance when the i th sequence runs at the j th time
- SFV neg,i,j is the negative spray flow variance when the i th sequence runs at the j th time
- F 0,i,j is the initial spray flow when the i th sequence runs at the j th time
- F max,i,j is the maximum spray flow when the i th sequence runs at the j th time
- F min,i,j is the minimum spray flow when the i th sequence runs at the j th time.
- SFO i,j is the spray flow offset
- F e,i,j is the spray flow after a waiting time following the i th sequence at the j th time
- F 0,i,j is as defined earlier.
- a block 156 determines whether the i th sequence is a steam temperature influencing sequence or not. The functioning of the block 156 is described in further detail below in FIG. 7 . If it is determined that the i th sequence is not a steam temperature influencing sequence, the block 156 transfers control back to the block 152 , and the analysis program 150 starts analyzing another sequence.
- a block 158 calculates a feed-forward signal to be applied to a steam temperature control system used by the boiler 100 .
- the feed-forward signal is applied to spray valves used by the boiler 100 .
- E i is the average total amount of spray change for a run of the i th sequence
- F 0,i,j and F k,i,j are as defined before
- ⁇ t is the length of the sampling time interval.
- a block 160 determines the shape of the feed-forward signal in a manner so that the total spray applied by the feed-forward signal is equal to E i .
- the area covered by the feed-forward signal has an absolute value equal to E i .
- the feed-forward signal may take a number of different shapes, such as triangular, exponential, etc, while still having the area covered by the feed-forward signal to be of an absolute value equal to E i .
- FIG. 6 An example of a triangular feed-forward signal is illustrated by a graph 260 in FIG. 6 , in which the shaded area 262 covered by the graph 260 is equal to E i .
- the operator of the boiler can set the location of the point A at any point through the length of the graph 260 as long as the absolute value of the area 262 covered by the curve is equal to E i .
- the feed-forward signal may also be added to any existing feed-forward control signal that may be already used by the control system of the boiler 100 , where such existing feed-forward control signal may be calculated by some other program within a control system used by the boiler 100 .
- Whether the feed-forward signal is positive or negative is determined based on the values of the mean average spray flow variance ⁇ SFV,avg,i and the mean spray flow offset ⁇ SFO,i . Specifically, if values of both the mean average spray flow variance ⁇ SFV,avg,i and the mean spray flow offset ⁇ SFO,i are negative, than the feed-forward signal is to be negative, as shown in FIG. 6 . On the other hand, if values of both the mean average spray flow variance ⁇ SFV,avg,i and the mean spray flow offset ⁇ SFO,i are positive, than the feed-forward signal is to be positive.
- the block 160 determines the shape and area of the feed-forward signal to be used in a particular section of the boiler 100 , the block 160 also applies the feed-forward signal to the control system of that particular section.
- the block 160 may apply the feed-forward signal to control system of that particular section for an extended period of time, say for a month or so, and keep collecting data regarding the steam temperature through that particular section of the boiler.
- a block 162 periodically determines whether the goal of implementing the analysis program 150 is achieved or not based on one or more predetermined criteria.
- One criterion used by the block 162 to determine whether the goal of the analysis program 150 is achieved or not is: (1) the distribution of various statistical parameters used by the analysis program 150 still being close to normal, and (2) (a) if ⁇ STV,avg,i ⁇ 0, the absolute value of the ⁇ STV,neg,i being significantly smaller than the previous absolute value of ⁇ STV,neg,i or (b) if ⁇ STV,avg,i >0, the absolute value of ⁇ STV,pos,i being significantly smaller than the previous value of ⁇ STV,pos,i .
- the block 162 evaluates the condition (2)(a) to determine that when the mean value of the STV avg,i,j is negative, the value of ⁇ STV,neg,i is smaller than before implementation of the analysis program 150 , meaning that the size of the negative variance has been reduced.
- the block 162 evaluates the condition (2)(b) to determine that when the mean value of the STV avg,i,j is positive, the value of ⁇ STV,pos,i is smaller than before implementation of the analysis program 150 , meaning that the size of the positive variance has been reduced.
- the analysis program 150 continues to use the feed-forward signal in its present form next time when the present soot blowing sequence is run. Otherwise, a block 164 retunes the feed-forward signal and the retuned signal is applied during the next run of the present soot blowing sequence.
- FIG. 7 it illustrates a statistical evaluation program 280 that may be implemented by the block 156 to determine whether the i th sequence is in fact a steam temperature influencing sequence or not.
- a number of different criteria each criterion evaluating one or more of the various statistical parameters of the i th sequence developed above, may be applied to determine whether the i th sequence is a steam temperature influencing sequence or not.
- the threshold levels against which the statistical parameters are compared depends on the degree of confidence required in concluding whether the i th sequence is a steam temperature influencing sequence or not.
- the evaluation program 280 are always necessary to determine a steam temperature influencing sequence.
- the block 282 may only require that a weighted combination of all of these parameters is within a pre-determined deviation range.
- Other criteria to evaluate the normality of the distribution of the statistical parameters may also be used.
- the standard deviations of these normally distributed data have to be within certain ranges which may be provided by plant operators/engineers.
- a block 284 evaluates whether ⁇ STV,pos,i and ⁇ STV,neg,i are greater (lesser) than their specified limits when ⁇ STV,avg,i is positive (negative).
- the specified limits i.e., the specified negative steam temperature variance and the specified positive steam temperature variance
- a block 286 evaluates whether ⁇ SFV,pos,i and ⁇ SFV,neg,i are greater (lesser) than their specified limits when ⁇ STV,avg,i is positive (negative).
- the specified limits i.e., the specified negative spray flow variance and the specified positive spray flow variance
- a block 288 evaluates whether the mean spray flow offset ⁇ SFO,i is outside of a first specified range or not, wherein the first specified range is provided by an operator of the boiler as an upper spray flow value and a lower spray flow value. Thus, in effect the block 288 evaluates whether the mean spray flow offset ⁇ SFO,i is (1) higher than the specified upper spray flow value, or (2) lower than the specified lower spray flow value. Finally, based on the evaluations performed at the blocks 282 - 288 , a block 290 determines whether the i th sequence is in fact a steam temperature influencing sequence or not.
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- This patent relates generally to computer software, and more particularly to computer software used in electric power generation systems.
- Electric power plants generate electricity using various types of power generators, which may be categorized, depending on the energy used to generate electricity, into thermal, nuclear, wind, hydroelectric, etc., generators. Each of these various types of generators operates under different sets of constraints. For example, an output of a thermal generator is a function of the amount of heat generated in a boiler, wherein the amount of heat is determined by the amount of fuel that can be burned per hour, etc. Additionally, the output of the thermal generator may also be dependent upon the heat transfer efficiency of the boiler used to burn the fuel. Similar types of constraints exist with other types of electric power plants. Moreover, for most power plants using boilers, the desired steam temperature set-points at final superheater and reheater outlets are constant and it is necessary to maintain steam temperature close to the set-points within a narrow range at all load levels.
- Fuel burning electric power generators operate by burning fuel to generate steam from water traveling through a number of pipes and tubes in the boiler. The steam is used to generate electricity in one or more turbines. However, burning of certain types of fuel, such as coal, oil, waste material, etc., also generates a substantial amount of soot, slag, ash and other deposits (“soot”) on various surfaces in the boilers, including the inner walls of the boiler as well as on the exterior walls of the tubes carrying the water through the boiler. The soot deposited in the boiler has various deleterious effects on the rate of heat transfer from the boiler to the water and thus on the efficiency of power generators using the boilers. Therefore, it is necessary to address the problem of soot in fuel burning power plants that burn coal, oil, and other such fuels that generate soot. It should be noted that while not all fuel burning power plants generate soot, for the remainder of this patent the term “fuel burning power plants” is used to refer to those power plants that generate soot.
- Various solutions are used to address the problems caused by generation and presence of soot deposits in boilers of fuel burning power plants. For example, fuel burning power plants use soot removing devices or equipment known as soot blowers as part of operating boilers. Fuel burning power plants use various types of soot blowers to spray cleaning materials through nozzles, which are located on the gas side of the boiler walls and/or on other heat exchange surfaces. Such soot blowers use any of the various media such as saturated steam, superheated steam, compressed air, water, etc., for removing soot from the boilers.
- However, soot blowing activity affects many aspects of boiler operations. For example, soot blowing affects heat transfer efficiency, steam temperature control, levels of NOx inside the boilers, etc. For example, soot blowing in a water wall section of a boiler increases heat absorption rate in the water wall section, which reduces the temperature of the flue gas leaving the furnace section of the boiler. As a result, the flue gases entering the convection section may have a lower temperature, resulting in lower heat absorption in a superheat section and a reheat section of the boiler, and therefore, reducing the steam temperature in these sections as well. On the other hand, soot blowing in the convection section of a boiler increases the heat absorption rate, resulting in increased steam temperature.
- Various qualitative effects of soot blowing are well known. However, it is difficult to determine precise quantitative impact of soot blowing on the efficiency and steam temperature of fuel burning power plants. Compensation techniques used by existing control systems include using a feedback PID controller that modulates at least one of spray flow levels, burner tilts, and flue gas bypass dampers, to compensate for the effect of soot blowing. However, often such feedback compensation action is reactionary and it may cause significant steam temperature swings. Therefore, it is necessary to develop a systematic method of constructing a feed-forward signal to compensate for the impacts of soot blowing.
- In today's competitive electrical utility industry where utilities use various sophisticated control systems to manage operating costs and increase efficiency of power generators, it is important to understand the effects of operating soot blowers so that operators and control systems may make informed decisions about how to compensate for the disturbances caused by soot blowing. Thus, there is a need to provide better quantitative information about the impact of soot blowing so that any adverse or negative impact of soot blowing can be compensated for more effectively.
- The present patent is illustrated by way of examples and not limitations in the accompanying figures, in which like references indicate similar elements, and in which:
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FIG. 1 illustrates a block diagram of a power distribution system; -
FIG. 2 illustrates a block diagram of a boiler used in a fuel burning power plant; -
FIG. 3 illustrates a flowchart of a soot blowing analysis program used by the boiler ofFIG. 2 ; -
FIG. 4 illustrates a block diagram of a reheat (or superheat) section of the boiler ofFIG. 2 ; -
FIG. 5 illustrates a graph showing an operation of the soot blowers ofFIG. 4 ; -
FIG. 6 illustrates a time diagram of a feed-forward signal to be applied to spray controls used by the boiler ofFIG. 4 ; and -
FIG. 7 illustrates a flow chart of an evaluation program for determining whether a soot blowing sequence is a steam temperature influencing sequence or not. - A system for analyzing the impact of operating soot blowers in a heat transfer section of a power plant determines a steam temperature influencing sequence and calculates a feed-forward signal to be applied to a steam temperature control system of the heat transfer section. The system operates a group of soot blowers a number of times and collects quantitative data related to the steam temperature during and after each soot blowing operation. A computer program used by the system analyzes the quantitative data, generates a number of statistical parameters for evaluating the impact of operating the soot blowers according to a given sequence on the steam temperature, and determines whether the given sequence is a steam temperature influencing sequence. Consequently, the system determines a feed-forward signal based on the steam temperature influencing sequence and applies the feed-forward signal to a steam temperature control system used by the heat transfer section to compensate for any adverse impact of soot blowing. Following figures describe an implementation of this system in a coal or oil burning power plant.
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FIG. 1 illustrates apower distribution system 10, including apower grid 12 that may be connected to aload grid 14 and one ormore utility grids utility grid 16 is connected to asecond power grid 20, and theutility grid 18 is illustrated as being formed of one or more power plants 22-26, which may include any of the various types of power plants such as nuclear power plants, hydroelectric power plants, thermal power plants, etc. Additionally, each of the power plants 22-26 may include any number of individual power generators. - Operation of the
utility grid 18 and the power plants 22-26 can be highly complex. As a result, to maintain theutility grid 18 running smoothly, it is necessary that each of the power plants 22-26 is managed with very high precision and in a highly predictable manner. To ensure that each of the power plants 22-26 can efficiently meet the power load required from them most efficiently, the power plants 22-26 use various control systems to ensure efficient operation throughout various sections of each of the power plants 22-26. - For example, fuel burning power plants that use coal, oil, gas or other fuels to produce electricity use control systems to ensure the quality and quantity of the fuel injected into the furnaces, to ensure that the steam flow through various boilers is at optimum levels, etc. Typically, fuel burning power plants have one or more boilers where superheated steam is created by passing water through a series of tubes located inside the boiler. The superheated steam then enters a steam turbine where it powers the turbine and a generator connected to the turbine to produce electricity.
- As noted above, soot, ash and other deposits that settle on the walls of the water carrying tubes result in reduction of heat transferred from the burning of fuel to the water and steam traveling through the tubes. To ensure that maximum heat is transferred to the water and steam passing through the boiler tubes, boiler walls and tubes are provided with soot blowers that routinely blow soot deposited on the tubes.
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FIG. 2 illustrates a cross sectional view of atypical boiler 100 and its associated soot blower system. Theboiler 100 is used to generate saturated (or superheated for once-through boiler) steam in thefurnace section 102 and superheated steam in aconvection section 104. Theconvection section 104 may include a superheat section and a reheat section. Theboiler 100 includes a number of superheating andreheating tubes 106 located in theconvection section 104, where thesetubes 106 are used to carry water and superheated steam. Theboiler 100 is shown to have a number of fixedsoot blowers 110 and a number ofretractable soot blowers 112. - As discussed above, soot blowing affects many aspects of boiler operation. Thus, for ensuring efficient operation of the
boiler 100 it is necessary to analyze the impact of soot blowing.FIG. 3 illustrates a flowchart of a sootblowing analysis program 150 used for analyzing the impact of soot blowing on the operation of theboiler 100 by measuring its impact on the steam temperature of the superheated steam and/or the reheat steam. Theanalysis program 150 may be implemented as software, firmware, hardware or any combination thereof. - Specifically, the
analysis program 150 operates the soot blowers of a given section of the boiler 100 a plurality of times, each operation of the soot blowers following a pre-determined pattern. During each of these operations, theanalysis program 150 collects data related to various characteristics of the spray used by the soot blowers in the given section, such as the spray flow, etc., and its impact on steam temperature of the given section. After collecting the data, theanalysis program 150 evaluates one or more statistical qualities of the collected data to determine a steam temperature influencing sequence, and using the steam temperature influencing sequence, theanalysis program 150 determines a feed-forward signal to be used by a steam temperature control system used by theboiler 100. - Now turning to the detailed operation of the
analysis program 150, ablock 152 operates thesoot blowers block 152 may select one or more soot blowing sequences currently used by the boiler and collect data related to these sequences. Theblock 152 may collect data using sequences that are specific to one or more sections of theboiler 100, specific to one ore more types of soot blowers 110-112, etc. Thus, for example, theblock 152 may use different sequences for collecting data related to soot blowers located in thefurnace section 102 compared to the sequences used for collecting data related to the soot blowers located in theconvection section 104. Alternatively, theblock 152 may collect data using different sequences for fixed soot blowers compared to the sequences used for retractable soot blowers. - Each of the various sequences used by the
analysis program 150, whether directed to a particular section of theboiler 100 or directed to a particular type of soot blowers, provides for operating a series of soot blowers in a specified manner. An exemplary implementation of applying soot blower sequences in a reheat section of theconvection section 104 is illustrated inFIG. 4 . - Specifically,
FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of areheat section 200 having aheat exchanger 202 located in the path of flue gas from theboiler 100. Thereheat section 200 may be part of theconvection section 104 ofFIG. 2 . Theheat exchanger 202 includes a number oftubes 204 for carrying steam which is mixed together with spray water in amixer 206. Theheat exchanger 202 converts the mixture of the water and steam to superheated steam. The flue gases input to thereheat section 200 are shown schematically by thearrows 209 and the flue gases leaving thereheat section 200 are shown schematically by thearrows 211. Thereheat section 200 is shown to include sixsoot blowers heat exchanger 202. The soot blowers 208-218 may be operated according to a particular soot blowing sequence, which specifies the order in which each of the soot blowers 208-218 is to be turned on. Once the soot blowers 208-218 are operated according to that particular sequence, theblock 152 collects data regarding the temperature of steam in thereheat section 200. - The
block 152 collects data related to operation of the soot blowers 208-218 and its impact on various characteristics of steam by operating the soot blowers 208-218 for an on time period and then turning off the soot blower 208-218 for an off time period. This is further illustrated inFIG. 5 by agraph 250, where during the ontime period 252, the soot blowers 208-218 are operated according to a pre-determined soot blowing sequence and during anoff time period 254, the soot blowers 208-218 are turned off. - The
block 152 generally collects data representing the effect of soot blowing during thesoot blowing period 252 and at the beginning of theoff time period 254. The number of times each of the various pre-determined sequences needs to be run before the collected data can be analyzed may be determined by the operator of theboiler 100. However, typically, the pre-determined sequences need to be run for approximately thirty times to get statistically significant information about the impact of the soot blowing sequences on the steam temperature. - Subsequently, a
block 154 calculates various statistical parameters from the data collected by theblock 152. Thus, to determine whether an ith sequence, which is made of operating the soot blowers 208-218, is a steam temperature influencing sequence or not, theblock 154 calculates various statistical parameters related to the data collected for the ith sequence. Suppose that the ith sequence is run a number of times, with each run of a time length defined as a soot blowing influencing time (SITi), and each run identified by an index j (j=1 to N). Whether the ith sequence is actually a steam temperature influencing sequence or not will be determined based on evaluation of various statistical parameters as specified below using equations (1) through (7):
STV pos,i,j =T max,i,j −T 0,i,j (1)
STV neg,i,j =T min,i,j −T 0,i,j (2) - Where STVpos,i,j is the positive steam temperature variance when the ith sequence runs at the jth time, STVneg,i,j is the negative steam temperature variance when the ith sequence runs at the jth time, T0,i,j is the initial steam temperature when the ith sequence starts the jth time, Tmax,i,j is the maximum steam temperature when the ith sequence runs at the jth time, and Tmin,i,j is the minimum steam temperature when the ith sequence runs at the jth time.
- Where STVavg,i,j is the average steam temperature when the ith sequence runs at the jth time and for the time period SITi, M is the number of sampling points during the time period SITi, and Tk,i,j is the steam temperature measurement when the ith sequence runs at the jth time and at a sampling time k.
SFV pos,i,j =F max,i,j −F 0,i,j (4)
SFV neg,i,j =F min,i,j −F 0,i,j (5) - Where SFVpos,i,j is the positive spray flow variance when the ith sequence runs at the jth time, SFVneg,i,j is the negative spray flow variance when the ith sequence runs at the jth time, F0,i,j is the initial spray flow when the ith sequence runs at the jth time, Fmax,i,j is the maximum spray flow when the ith sequence runs at the jth time, and Fmin,i,j is the minimum spray flow when the ith sequence runs at the jth time.
- Where SFavg,i,j as the average spray flow when the ith sequence runs at the jth time, for the time period SITi, M is the total sampling points during the time period SITi, and Fk,i,j is the spray flow measurement when the ith sequence runs at the jth time and at the sampling time k.
SFO i,j =F e,i,j −F 0,i,j (7) - Where SFOi,j is the spray flow offset, Fe,i,j is the spray flow after a waiting time following the ith sequence at the jth time, and F0,i,j is as defined earlier.
- Subsequently, using the values obtained for various statistical parameters as per the equations (1) to (7), the block 154 calculates various mean values and standard deviation values for the ith sequence, where the equations for these mean values are provided in the table 1 below:
TABLE 1 Mean Value Equation Mean value for the STVpos,i,j for the sequence Mean value for the STVneg,i,j for the sequence Mean value for the STVavg,i,j for the sequence Mean value for the SFVpos,i,j for the sequence Mean value for the SFVneg,i,j for the sequence Mean value for the SFVavg,i,j for the sequence Mean value for the SFOi,j for the ith sequence - The standard deviations are calculated by equations in the following table II below.
TABLE II Standard Deviations Equation Standard deviation for the STVpos,i for the ithsequence Standard deviation for the STVneg,i for the ithsequence Standard deviation for the STavg,i for the ithsequence Standard deviation for the SFVpos,i for the ithsequence Standard deviation for the SFVneg,i for the ithsequence Standard deviation for the SFavg,i for the ithsequence Standard deviation for the SFOi for the 1thsequence - Once the
block 154 has calculated the various mean values and the various variance values for the ith sequence, ablock 156 determines whether the ith sequence is a steam temperature influencing sequence or not. The functioning of theblock 156 is described in further detail below inFIG. 7 . If it is determined that the ith sequence is not a steam temperature influencing sequence, theblock 156 transfers control back to theblock 152, and theanalysis program 150 starts analyzing another sequence. - If it is determined that the ith sequence is a steam temperature influencing sequence, a
block 158 calculates a feed-forward signal to be applied to a steam temperature control system used by theboiler 100. In an implementation of theanalysis program 150, the feed-forward signal is applied to spray valves used by theboiler 100. The average total amount of spray flow to be utilized to compensate for the impact of the ith sequence on the steam temperature is determined as given by the equation 8 below: - where, Ei is the average total amount of spray change for a run of the ith sequence, F0,i,j and Fk,i,j are as defined before, and Δt is the length of the sampling time interval.
- Once the
block 158 determines the value of Ei, ablock 160 determines the shape of the feed-forward signal in a manner so that the total spray applied by the feed-forward signal is equal to Ei. Thus, when the feed-forward signal is plotted against time, the area covered by the feed-forward signal has an absolute value equal to Ei. As one of ordinary skill in the art would appreciate the feed-forward signal may take a number of different shapes, such as triangular, exponential, etc, while still having the area covered by the feed-forward signal to be of an absolute value equal to Ei. - An example of a triangular feed-forward signal is illustrated by a
graph 260 inFIG. 6 , in which the shadedarea 262 covered by thegraph 260 is equal to Ei. The operator of the boiler can set the location of the point A at any point through the length of thegraph 260 as long as the absolute value of thearea 262 covered by the curve is equal to Ei. Furthermore, the feed-forward signal may also be added to any existing feed-forward control signal that may be already used by the control system of theboiler 100, where such existing feed-forward control signal may be calculated by some other program within a control system used by theboiler 100. - Whether the feed-forward signal is positive or negative is determined based on the values of the mean average spray flow variance μSFV,avg,i and the mean spray flow offset μSFO,i. Specifically, if values of both the mean average spray flow variance μSFV,avg,i and the mean spray flow offset μSFO,i are negative, than the feed-forward signal is to be negative, as shown in
FIG. 6 . On the other hand, if values of both the mean average spray flow variance μSFV,avg,i and the mean spray flow offset μSFO,i are positive, than the feed-forward signal is to be positive. - Referring back to
FIG. 3 , once theblock 160 determines the shape and area of the feed-forward signal to be used in a particular section of theboiler 100, theblock 160 also applies the feed-forward signal to the control system of that particular section. Theblock 160 may apply the feed-forward signal to control system of that particular section for an extended period of time, say for a month or so, and keep collecting data regarding the steam temperature through that particular section of the boiler. - A
block 162 periodically determines whether the goal of implementing theanalysis program 150 is achieved or not based on one or more predetermined criteria. One criterion used by theblock 162 to determine whether the goal of theanalysis program 150 is achieved or not is: (1) the distribution of various statistical parameters used by theanalysis program 150 still being close to normal, and (2) (a) if μSTV,avg,i<0, the absolute value of the μSTV,neg,i being significantly smaller than the previous absolute value of μSTV,neg,i or (b) if μSTV,avg,i>0, the absolute value of μSTV,pos,i being significantly smaller than the previous value of μSTV,pos,i. - As one of ordinary skill in the art would appreciate, the
block 162 evaluates the condition (2)(a) to determine that when the mean value of the STVavg,i,j is negative, the value of μSTV,neg,i is smaller than before implementation of theanalysis program 150, meaning that the size of the negative variance has been reduced. On the other hand theblock 162 evaluates the condition (2)(b) to determine that when the mean value of the STVavg,i,j is positive, the value of μSTV,pos,i is smaller than before implementation of theanalysis program 150, meaning that the size of the positive variance has been reduced. - If the
block 162, determines that the goal of implementing theanalysis program 150 is achieved, theanalysis program 150 continues to use the feed-forward signal in its present form next time when the present soot blowing sequence is run. Otherwise, ablock 164 retunes the feed-forward signal and the retuned signal is applied during the next run of the present soot blowing sequence. - Now referring to
FIG. 7 , it illustrates astatistical evaluation program 280 that may be implemented by theblock 156 to determine whether the ith sequence is in fact a steam temperature influencing sequence or not. A number of different criteria, each criterion evaluating one or more of the various statistical parameters of the ith sequence developed above, may be applied to determine whether the ith sequence is a steam temperature influencing sequence or not. Moreover, when applying any of these criteria, the threshold levels against which the statistical parameters are compared depends on the degree of confidence required in concluding whether the ith sequence is a steam temperature influencing sequence or not. Thus, not all of the various criteria used by theevaluation program 280 are always necessary to determine a steam temperature influencing sequence. - First of all, a
block 282 evaluates the statistical distribution of each of the statistical parameters STVpos,i,j, STVneg,i,j, STVavg,i,j, SFVpos,i,j, SFVneg,i,j, SFVavg,i,j and SFOi,j (for j=1, 2, . . . , N). Specifically, theblock 282 determines whether, for the ith sequence, the distributions of these statistical parameters are approximately normal or not. Theblock 282 may allow a user of theevaluation program 280 to determine what deviation from normal distribution is allowed for these statistical parameters. In an alternate implementation, theblock 282 may only require that a weighted combination of all of these parameters is within a pre-determined deviation range. Other criteria to evaluate the normality of the distribution of the statistical parameters may also be used. In addition to the normality test, the standard deviations of these normally distributed data have to be within certain ranges which may be provided by plant operators/engineers. - Subsequently, a
block 284 evaluates whether μSTV,pos,i and μSTV,neg,i are greater (lesser) than their specified limits when μSTV,avg,i is positive (negative). The specified limits (i.e., the specified negative steam temperature variance and the specified positive steam temperature variance) can be provided by the user of theanalysis program 150, such as a plant operator, a control system operator, etc. - A
block 286 evaluates whether μSFV,pos,i and μSFV,neg,i are greater (lesser) than their specified limits when μSTV,avg,i is positive (negative). Again, the specified limits (i.e., the specified negative spray flow variance and the specified positive spray flow variance) can be provided by the user of theanalysis program 150, such as a plant operator, a control system operator, etc. - Subsequently, a
block 288 evaluates whether the mean spray flow offset μSFO,i is outside of a first specified range or not, wherein the first specified range is provided by an operator of the boiler as an upper spray flow value and a lower spray flow value. Thus, in effect theblock 288 evaluates whether the mean spray flow offset μSFO,i is (1) higher than the specified upper spray flow value, or (2) lower than the specified lower spray flow value. Finally, based on the evaluations performed at the blocks 282-288, ablock 290 determines whether the ith sequence is in fact a steam temperature influencing sequence or not. - Although the forgoing text sets forth a detailed description of numerous different embodiments of the invention, it should be understood that the scope of the invention is defined by the words of the claims set forth at the end of this patent. The detailed description is to be construed as exemplary only and does not describe every possible embodiment of the invention because describing every possible embodiment would be impractical, if not impossible. Numerous alternative embodiments could be implemented, using either current technology or technology developed after the filing date of this patent, which would still fall within the scope of the claims defining the invention.
- Thus, many modifications and variations may be made in the techniques and structures described and illustrated herein without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention. Accordingly, it should be understood that the methods and apparatus described herein are illustrative only and are not limiting upon the scope of the invention.
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