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Combustion air controls
After reading this article you will..
- learn the importance of combustion air control on the operation of the recovery boiler and the main control strategy.
Process control and automation
- Introduction to process control and automation
- Development of process automation
- Fibre process automation
- Chemical recovery as a control object
- Advances in paper machine automation
- Paper machine as a dynamical system
- Tasks in paper machine control and management
- Control of stock flow concentration and quality
- Machine direction control
- Cross-directional control – The static optimisation
- Cross-directional control – Dynamics
- Cross-directional control – further aspects
- Controlling functional paper properties
- Managing grade chances in the paper machine
- Managing disturbances caused by broke and recovered solids
- Millwide systems
- Modelling and control methods
Authors & references
Authors:
Professor Emeritus Kauko Leiviskä, University of Oulu
References:
- Uronen, P. and Leiviskä, K. 1985. Computerization of recovery boilers – the way ahead. In: Proceedings of 1985 International Chemical Recovery Conference. New Orleans, April 28–May 1, 127–133.
- Uronen, P., Jutila, E. and Pantsar, O. 1978. A practical approach to the control of recovery boilers. IFAC Proceedings Volumes 11(1):249-253. (Presented in the 7th Triennial World Congress of the IFAC on A Link Between Science and Applications of Automatic Control, Helsinki, Finland, 12-16 June).
- MacCallum, C. 2014. Maximize then optimize the reduction efficiency in a kraft recovery boiler. Western Canada BLRBAC meeting, Vancouver, April 2014, 7 p.
- Sutinen, R., Aksela, R. and Huovinen, N. 1983. Computer control of sulphite recovery boiler and evaporation plant at Finnish mill. IFAC Proceedings Volumes 16(21):123-130. Presented in the: 5th International IFAC/IMEKO Conference on Instrumentation and Automation in the Paper, Rubber, Plastics and Polymerization Industries. Antwerp, Belgium, October 11–13, 107–114.
- Mikkonen, J. 1993. Automation in recovery boiler. In: Automaatio 93 Proceedings. Helsinki, May 11–13. Finnish Society of Automation, Helsinki, 225–231. (In Finnish).
- Vakkilainen, E. K. 1996. Recovery boiler adjustable air. BLRBAC Spring Conference, April 1996, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
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