With Variable Firing Patents (Class 122/479.4)
  • Patent number: 9841185
    Abstract: A technique of controlling a steam generating boiler system having multiple superheater sections includes determining multiple control signals to control a temperature of output steam to a turbine. The technique uses a first control block to determine an offset value based on multiple input temperatures and a dynamic matrix control (DMC) block to determine input steam control signals based on an output temperature and an output temperature setpoint. The technique modifies one of the input steam control signals based on the offset value. The modified input steam control signal and the unmodified input steam control signal are provided to respective field devices to control the input temperatures and, as a result, the output temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: EMERSON PROCESS MANAGEMENT POWER & WATER SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventor: Robert Allen Beveridge
  • Patent number: 9593844
    Abstract: A method for operating a waste heat steam generator including an evaporator, an economizer having a number of economizer heating surfaces, and a bypass line connected on the flow medium side in parallel with a number of economizer heating surfaces is provided. The method makes possible higher operational safety and reliability in the control of the waste heat steam generator. For this purpose, a parameter that is characteristic of the thermal energy fed to the waste heat steam generator is used to control or regulate the flow rate of the by-pass line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Jan Brückner, Frank Thomas
  • Publication number: 20140216364
    Abstract: Method and system for adjusting a measured reheat outlet steam temperature (“RPV”) to approximate a reheat outlet steam temperature setpoint (“RSP”) in a boiler. An RPV is compared to an RSP. If the RPV is less than the RSP and a position of a fuel nozzle tilt (“TILTPV”) is below a high limit of the fuel nozzle tilt (“TILTHIGH”), the TILTPV is increased while a flow rate of a secondary flue gas recirculation (“SFGRPV”) is kept constant. If the RPV is less than the RSP and the TILTPV is at the TILTHIGH, the SFGRPV is increased. If the RPV is greater than the RSP and the SFGRPV is greater than a low limit of flow rate of the SFGR (“SFGRLOW”), the SFGRPV is decreased, while the TILTPV is kept constant. If the RPV is greater than the RSP and the SFGRPV is at the SFGRLOW, the TILTPV is decreased.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2013
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicant: ALSTOM TECHNOLOGY LTD
    Inventor: Alstom Technology Ltd.