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**A Robust and Flexible Control System to** 

Toru Eguchi, Takaaki Sekiai, Naohiro Kusumi, Akihiro Yamada,

Regulations on environmental effects due to such issues as nitrogen oxide (NOx) and carbon monoxide (CO) emissions from thermal power plants have become stricter[1]; hence the need for compliance with these regulations has been increasing. To meet this need, several technologies with respect to fuel combustion, exhaust gas treatment and operational control have been developed[2-4]. The technologies for the fuel combustion and the exhaust gas treatment include a low NOx burner and an air quality control system, and they are capable of reducing impact on the environment as physical and chemical implementation methods. The operational control technology for the thermal power plants is constantly required to receive changes in operational conditions. It is difficult to realize operational control which

To overcome this issue, the operational control must be able to reduce NOx and CO emissions flexibly in accordance with such changes. Robustness is also required in such control because the measured NOx and CO data often include noise. Therefore, a robust and flexible plant control system is strongly desired to reduce environmental effects from

Several studies have proposed plant control technologies to reduce the environmental effects[4-10]. These technologies are classified into two types of methods: model based and non-model based methods. The former methods include an optimization algorithm and a numerical model to estimate plant properties using neural networks (NNs)[11,12] and multivariable model predictive control[13]. The optimization algorithm searches for optimal control signals to reduce NOx and CO emissions using the numerical model. The latter methods have no models and they generates the optimal control signals by fuzzy logic[14]. A fuzzy logic controller outputs the optimal control signals for multivariable inputs using fuzzy rule bases. The fuzzy rule bases are based on *a priori* knowledge of plant control, and

These technologies require the measured plant data for initial tuning of the model properties and the parameters of rules when the technologies are installed in plants. It usually takes some time to collect enough plant data. In addition, the search for control

**1. Introduction**

responds to combustion properties.

thermal power plants efficiently.

they can be tuned by parameters.

**Reduce Environmental Effects of** 

**Thermal Power Plants** 

Satoru Shimizu and Masayuki Fukai
