A model of a bubbling fluidized bed combustor oriented to char mass estimation

IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 247-256

  Bittanti, Sergio ^a,b   Bolzern, Paolo ^b   Campi, M C ^a,c   De Marco, Antonio ^d   Poncia, Guido ^a,b   Prandoni, Walter ^d  

^a IEEE   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

^d ENEL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Kalman filtering; Modeling; Nonlinear systems; Power generation; State estimation

Indexed keywords

CHAR MASS ESTIMATION; NONLINEAR LUMPED PARAMETER MODELS;

BUBBLE FORMATION; CARBON; FLUIDIZED BED COMBUSTORS; GAS EMISSIONS; KALMAN FILTERING; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; STATE ESTIMATION;

PROCESS CONTROL;

EID: 0033730114     PISSN: 10636536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/87.826796     Document Type: Article

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