MODELLING AND SIMULATION OF THE CEMENT CLINKER BURNING PROCESS

摘要

The cement clinker burning process is an extremely complex dynamical process, which currently is just fairly understood. A new wholistic approach for modelling and simulating of the process was made in co-operation with an experienced manufacturer of cement production plants. The developed simulation framework is extendable and arbitrary plant configurations can be described due to an object-oriented modeling concept. Thus the continuously increasing process-know-how can be incorporated in an evolutionary way. The simulation framework was implemented with the Dymola simulation system. Plant components are represented by modules accompanied by a visual representation. A process model generated by Dymola was then connected to an existing process automation system of cement plants by using a message passing system. The result is an interactive simulator for simple training purposes, that in the future might be used for further applications. This demands the extension and optimisation of the model and suitable parameter values and initial starting values.