A study of control strategy for the bin system with tube mill in the coal fired power station

The pulverized coal systems with tube mills are widely used in coal fired power plants. As there are many controlled variables and disturbances in this system, and startup and shutdown of the system is frequent and the dynamic characteristic of the controlled plant is also extraordinary, the automatic control system for this kind of pulverized coal system is not ideally implemented for long. The authors of this paper investigated and tested a pulverized coal system with tube mill in Nanjing Thermal Power Station, and based on various different controlled plants and control objectives, proposed rather independent control subsystems. These subsystems can organize a whole automatic control system of pulverized coal system that can be used in different conditions. The control system presented in this paper has worked well since it was put into operation in May 1998, and good economic benefits have been acquired.