Multiresolution GPC-Structured Control of a Single-Loop Cold-Flow Chemical Looping Testbed

Shu Zhang, Joseph Bentsman, Xinsheng Lou, Carl Neuschaefer, Yongseok Lee and Hamza El-Kebir
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Shu Zhang: Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1206 W Green St., Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Joseph Bentsman: Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1206 W Green St., Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Xinsheng Lou: Alstom Thermal Power, Windsor, CT 06095, USA
Carl Neuschaefer: Alstom Thermal Power, Windsor, CT 06095, USA
Yongseok Lee: Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1206 W Green St., Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Hamza El-Kebir: Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 104 S Wright St., Urbana, IL 61801, USA

Energies, 2020, vol. 13, issue 7, 1-28

Abstract: Chemical looping is a near-zero emission process for generating power from coal. It is based on a multi-phase gas-solid flow and has extremely challenging nonlinear, multi-scale dynamics with jumps, producing large dynamic model uncertainty, which renders traditional robust control techniques, such as linear parameter varying H ∞ design, largely inapplicable. This process complexity is addressed in the present work through the temporal and the spatiotemporal multiresolution modeling along with the corresponding model-based control laws. Namely, the nonlinear autoregressive with exogenous input model structure, nonlinear in the wavelet basis, but linear in parameters, is used to identify the dominant temporal chemical looping process dynamics. The control inputs and the wavelet model parameters are calculated by optimizing a quadratic cost function using a gradient descent method. The respective identification and tracking error convergence of the proposed self-tuning identification and control schemes, the latter using the unconstrained generalized predictive control structure, is separately ascertained through the Lyapunov stability theorem. The rate constraint on the control signal in the temporal control law is then imposed and the control topology is augmented by an additional control loop with self-tuning deadbeat controller which uses the spatiotemporal wavelet riser dynamics representation. The novelty of this work is three-fold: (1) developing the self-tuning controller design methodology that consists in embedding the real-time tunable temporal highly nonlinear, but linearly parametrizable, multiresolution system representations into the classical rate-constrained generalized predictive quadratic optimal control structure, (2) augmenting the temporal multiresolution loop by a more complex spatiotemporal multiresolution self-tuning deadbeat control loop, and (3) demonstrating the effectiveness of the proposed methodology in producing fast recursive real-time algorithms for controlling highly uncertain nonlinear multiscale processes. The latter is shown through the data from the implemented temporal and augmented spatiotemporal solutions of a difficult chemical looping cold flow tracking control problem.

Keywords: chemical looping; wavelets; NARMA model; generalized predictive control (GPC) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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