Estimation of Scale Deposition in the Water Walls of an Operating Indian Coal Fired Boiler: Predictive Modeling Approach Using Artificial Neural Networks

Kumari, Amrita and Das, Suchandan K and Srivastava, Prem Kumar (2016) Estimation of Scale Deposition in the Water Walls of an Operating Indian Coal Fired Boiler: Predictive Modeling Approach Using Artificial Neural Networks. Journal of The Institution of Engineers , 97(1) (IF- ). pp. 39-46.

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Abstract

Application of computational intelligence for predicting industrial processes has been in extensive use in various industrial sectors including power sector industry. An ANN model using multi-layer perceptron philosophy has been proposed in this paper to predict the deposition behaviors of oxide scale on waterwall tubes of a coal fired boiler. The input parameters comprises of boiler water chemistry and associated operating parameters, such as, pH, alkalinity, total dissolved solids, specific conductivity, iron and dissolved oxygen concentration of the feed water and local heat flux on boiler tube. An efficient gradient based network optimization algorithm has been employed to minimize neural predictions errors. Effects of heat flux, iron content, pH and the concentrations of total dissolved solids in feed water and other operating variables on the scale deposition behavior have been studied. It has been observed that heat flux, iron content and pH of the feed water have a relatively prime influence on the rate of oxide scale deposition in water walls of an Indian boiler. Reasonably good agreement between ANN model predictions and the measured values of oxide scale deposition rate has been observed which is corroborated by the regression fit between these values.

Item Type:Article
Official URL/DOI:https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40033-0...
Uncontrolled Keywords:Boiler tube corrosion Neural model Scale deposition Water chemistry pH
Divisions:Mineral Processing
ID Code:7550
Deposited By:Sahu A K
Deposited On:16 Aug 2017 11:39
Last Modified:18 Sep 2017 15:12
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