Investigation of Flow Patterns in Continuous‐flow Stirred Vessels by Laser Doppler Velocimetry

The flow structure of a continuous‐flow reactor stirred by a Rushton turbine was investigated by laser Doppler velocimetry for two different mean residence time‐mixing time ratios. Velocity measurements were obtained for two inlet locations, corresponding to the incoming liquid stream being fed co‐currently or counter‐currently to the flow discharged by the turbine. In all investigated configurations and for all operating conditions, it was found that the flow disruption caused by the incoming liquid stream was observable mainly in the first vessel quarter, which followed the feed‐tube plane. From comparison of the velocities encountered in the various planes in the continuous‐flow reactor to the velocities of the batch reactor, it was also concluded that it may be possible to intensify the usage of the turbine‐stirred vessel by decreasing the characteristic times ratio, without considerable flow by‐pass and/or short‐circuiting problems.     

和利时DEH在型钢50MW发电机中的应用

介绍和利时DEH的系统构成,及其在50MW发电机系统中的主要控制功能和实现方法.     

Development of design principles for a creep-limited alloy for turbine blades

Recent advancements in turbine-blade materials engineering are reviewed in light of general superalloy research and the author’s work on a new powder metallurgy IN-792 creep-limited alloy for application in blades of gas-turbine engines. The developed set of principles presented in this paper incorporates all the factors that must be taken into consideration in selecting and designing an alloy for turbine blades.     

TBC experience in land- based gas turbines

This paper summarizes prior and on-going machine evaluations of thermal barrier coatings (TBC) for power generation, that is large industrial gas turbine applications. Rainbow testing of TBCs on turbine nozzles, shrouds, and buckets are described along with a test of combustor liners. General Electric Power Generation has conducted more than IS machine tests on TBC turbine nozzles with various coatings. TBC performance has been quite good, and additional testing, including TBCs on shrouds and buckets, is continuing. Included is a brief comparison of TBC requirements for power generation and aircraft turbines.     

Observer-based predictive controller design with network-enhanced time-delay compensation

State feedback control is very attractive due to the precise computation of the gain matrix, but the implementation of a state feedback controller is possible only when all state variables are directly measurable. This condition is almost impossible to accomplish due to the excess number of required sensors or unavailability of states for measurement in most of the practical situations. Hence, the need for an estimator or observer is obvious to estimate all the state variables by observing the input and the output of the controlled system. As such, the goal of this paper is to provide a control design methodology based on a Luenberger observer design that can assure the closed-loop performances of a vehicle drivetrain with backlash, while compensating the network-enhanced time-varying delays. This goal is achieved in a sequential manner: firstly, a piecewise linear model of two inertias drivetrain, which takes into consideration the backlash nonlinearity and the network-enhanced time-varying delay effects is derived; then, a Luenberger observer which estimates the state variables is synthesized and the robust full state-feedback predictive controller based on flexible control Lyapunov functions is designed to explicitly take into account the bounds of the disturbances caused by time-varying delays and to guarantee also the input-to-state stability of the system in a non-conservative way. The full state-feedback predictive control strategy based on the Luenberger observer design was experimentally tested on a vehicle drivetrain emulator controlled through controller area network, with the aim of minimizing the backlash effects while compensating the network-enhanced delays.     

Flight control of tethered kites in autonomous pumping cycles for airborne wind energy

Energy harvesting based on tethered kites benefits from exploiting higher wind speeds at higher altitudes. The setup considered in this paper is based on a pumping cycle. It generates energy by winching out at high tether forces, driving an electrical generator while flying crosswind. Then it winches in at a stationary neutral position, thus leaving a net amount of generated energy.The focus of this paper is put on the flight control design, which implements an accurate direction control towards target points and allows for a flight with an eight-down pattern. An extended overview on the control system approach, as well as details of each element of the flight controller, is presented. The control architecture is motivated by a simple, yet comprehensive model for the kite dynamics.In addition, winch strategies based on an optimization scheme are presented. In order to demonstrate the real world functionality of the presented algorithms, flight data from a fully automated pumping-cycle operation of a small-scale prototype are given. The setup is based on a 30 m² kite linked to a ground-based 50 kW electrical motor/generator by a single line.     

Real-time nonlinear MPC and MHE for a large-scale mechatronic application

Progress in optimization algorithms and in computational hardware made deployment of Nonlinear Model Predictive Control (NMPC) and Moving Horizon Estimation (MHE) possible to mechatronic applications. This paper aims to assess the computational performance of NMPC and MHE for rotational start-up of Airborne Wind Energy systems. The capabilities offered by an automatic code generation tool are experimentally verified on a real physical system, using a model comprising 27 states and 4 inputs at a sampling frequency of 25 Hz. The results show the feedback times less than 5 ms for the NMPC with more than 1500 variables.     

微型核磁共振传感器实时监测汽轮机油老化状态

汽轮机油被广泛应用于火力发电厂汽轮机的调节系统,随着使用年限的增加,其润滑性能和电气性能会随之下降。针对汽轮机油老化状态缺少简单有效的实时监测手段这一问题,提出用核磁共振技术进行检测,并设计了一种方便实时监测的微型核磁共振传感器。传感器尺寸为30 mm ×30 mm ×36 mm,重107 g,可以浸泡在汽轮机油中对其进行检测。通过对来自两个发电厂的不同使用年限的汽轮机油进行测量实验发现：汽轮机油的核磁共振参数有效横向弛豫时间T2ef与纵向弛豫时间T1随着其使用年限的增加而减小。该传感器制作成本低,尺寸微小,操作方便,使得实时监测汽轮机油的老化状态成为一种可能。     

天然气长输管道燃驱机组控制系统优化技术

燃气轮机驱动的压缩机组被广泛地应用在天然气长输管道,其控制系统优化技术的大范围深度应用在管道行业尚数首次,及时消除生产瓶颈的同时,也为涉及燃机的控制专业同行提供了技术借鉴,更重要的是为管道行业燃机运行提供了安全保障。     

汽轮机组真空度过低原因探析与解决措施

重点讨论了凝汽系统和真空系统两方面的内容,说明了可能导致汽轮机真空度降低的原因,并给出了有针对性的解决措施,很好地解决了这个问题。