Adaptive fuzzy controller design for municipal incinerators

摘要

The successful operation of mass burn municipal incinerators for solid waste management involves many uncertain factors. Not only the physical composition and chemical property of waste streams but also the complexity of combustion mechanism would significantly influence the performance of waste incineration. The applications of fuzzy control technologies for reducing the operational risks have gradually received wide attention in the scientific community. In this paper, an adaptive fuzzy controller with adaptive factors is designed for the municipal incinerators. In order to get better control results and make the incineration temperature stability, a fuzzy rule base is used to determine the values of the adaptive factors. And the structure of the whole controller is a two-level fuzzy control system. This fuzzy control approach is going to be a quick and effective tool to solve the problems in those incineration processes.