Study of designing regulator for temperature electrical resistance furnace using Kalman stochastic reconstructor

<span>Electric <span>resistance furnaces are the most popular and widely used industrial electro thermal equipment which continues to be the subject of many improvements. The aim of this paper is to control the temperature of electrical furnace for noisy thermocouple sensors. It can be assessed by observing some variables, which are very difficult to observe. Due to limitations, mainly the location of thermal sensors and their noises. In this case, the temperature measurement is trained with centered Gaussian white noise. The problem of accurate temperatures estimation for such sensors is solved using Kalman filter, which is an optimized estimator that provides a computationally efficient way to estimate system state. Thus, variables that are not directly measurable can be reconstructed from the algorithm. Kalman stochastic reconstructor (KSR). We cannot use with fixed parameters to control the temperature. For this reason, this paper comes up with a KSR approach based pole placement (PL) hybrid controller to realize an algorithm for the temperature control electrical furnace. Results based on Matlab simulation show that the improved algorithm has well produced an optimal estimate of the temperature. Evolving over time from noisy measurements. Hybrid algorithm KSR approach based PL give good performance compared to PL controllers.</span></span>

Torrefaction of Straw from Oats and Maize for Use as a Fuel and Additive to Organic Fertilizers—TGA Analysis, Kinetics as Products for Agricultural Purposes

This publication presents research work which contains the optimum parameters of the agri-biomass: maize and oat straws torrefaction process. Parameters which are the most important for the torrefaction process and its products are temperature and residence time. Thermogravimetric analysis was performed as well as the torrefaction process using an electrical furnace on a laboratory scale at a temperature between 250–525 °C. These biomass torrefaction process parameters—residence time and temperature—were necessary to perform the design and construction of semi-pilot scale biomass torrefaction installations with a regimental dryer and a woody and agri-biomass regimental torrefaction reactor to perform a continuous torrefaction process using superheated steam. In the design installation the authors also focused on biochar, a bi-product of biofuel which will be used as an additive for natural bio-fertilizers. Kinetic analysis of torrefaction process using maize and oat straws was performed using NETZSCH Neo Kinetics software. It was found that kinetic analysis methods conducted with multiple heating rate experiments were much more efficient than the use of a single heating rate. The best representations of the experimental data for the straw from maize straw were found for the n-order reaction model. A thermogravimetric analysis, TG-MS analysis and VOC analysis combined with electrical furnace installation were performed on the maize and oat straw torrefaction process. The new approach in the work presented is different from that of current scientific achievements due to the fact that until now researchers have worked on performing processes on oat and maize straws by means of the torrefaction process for the production of a biochar as an additive for natural bio-fertilizers. None of them looked for economically reasonable mass loss ratios. In this work the authors made the assumption that a mass loss in the area of 45–50% is the most reasonable loss for the two mentioned agri-biomass processes. On this basis, a semi-pilot installation could be produced in a further BIOCARBON project step. The kinetic parameters which were calculated will be used to estimate the size of the apparatuses, the biomass dryer, and biomass torrefaction reactor.

Optical Analysis of Bismuth-Based Glasses Doped Potassium Chromate

In this study, Bismuth-based glasses were prepared and doped with various concentration of potassium chromate. They were melted in an electrical furnace at 1250°C for 4 hours then pressed with fire frame to plate shape and annealed at 500°C for 10 min. Optical spectra were used to analyze color shade of glasses. Homogeneity of glasses was analyzed by birefringence technique. Glasses color was changed from colorless to slightly and opaque green with an increasing amount of potassium dichromate and birefringence result showed that the glasses are non-homogenous.

Analysis of Physical Processes in a Holding Electrical Furnace

The present article describes the results of automated design and analysis of electromagnetic, thermal and hydrodynamic processes in a holding electrical furnace for preparation of aluminum alloys. The availability of a parameter model enables to design a furnace of any given capacity in quick time and carry out an analysis of physical processes in it.