Flexible Methane Production Using a Proportional Integral Controller with Simulation‐Based Soft Sensor
- Anaerobic digestion plants have the potential to produce biogas on demand to help balance renewable energy production and energy demand by consumers. A proportional integral (PI) controller is constructed and tuned with a novel tuning method to control biogas production in an optimal manner. In this approach, the proportional part of the controller is a function of the feeding rate and system's degree of stability. To estimate the degree of stability, a simulation‐based soft sensor is developed. By means of the PI controller, the requirement for gas storage capacity of the digester is reduced by approximately 30 % compared to a constant, continuous feeding regime of the digester.
| Author: | Niloofar Raeyatdoost, Robin Eccleston, Christian Wolf |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:832-epub4-15708 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1002/ceat.201900401 |
| Parent Title (English): | Chemical Engineering & Technology |
| Year of Completion: | 2019 |
| Publisher: | Wiley-VCH |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2020/10/15 |
| GND-Keyword: | Biogasgewinnung; Methanproduktion; PI-Regler; Virtueller Sensor |
| Tag: | Flexible biogas production; Methane production; Proportional integral controllers; Soft sensor |
| Volume: | 43 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Page Number: | 9 |
| Institutes: | Informatik und Ingenieurwissenschaften (F10) / Fakultät 10 / Institut für Automation & Industrial IT |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik |
| Open Access: | Open Access |
| DeepGreen: | DeepGreen |
| Licence (German): | Creative Commons - CC BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |


