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SELF-TUNING CONTROL OF EGG DRYING IN SPOUTED BED USING THE GPC ALGORITHM

2002; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 20; Issue: 4-5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1081/drt-120003760

1532-2300

Nivaldo Aparecido Corrêa, Ronaldo Guimarães Corrêa, José Teixeira Freire,

Mineral Processing and Grinding

ABSTRACT A spouted bed is used to dry many and different materials ranging from granules to pastes and suspensions. This work presents an implementation and tests of an advanced control strategy on a spouted bed dryer. Water was used as the ideal paste for tests. An adaptive control algorithm GPC (Generalized Predictive Control) was implemented. A microcomputer was used to maintain humidity and temperature set points of air in the dryer by manipulating electric power of heat exchanger and paste feed flow rate. Instrumentation was set-up with different sensors, interface and final control elements for operation. Stability and performance analysis of the control strategy was accomplished. A robust stable controller was obtained which had also encouraged us to extend the investigation of this control strategy to the drying of other pastes. Keywords: Adaptive controlInert particlesPaste dryingPredictive controlMoisture control ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The authors would like to thank the financial support provided by CNPq (under grant: 142849/97-9) and PRONEX (Proc.: 41.96.0897.00).