Flexible Methane Production Using a Proportional Integral Controller with Simulation-Based Soft Sensor |
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Authors: | Niloofar Raeyatdoost Robin Eccleston Christian Wolf |
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Affiliation: | TH Köln, Institute for Automation & IT, Steinmüllerallee 1, 51643 Gummersbach, Germany |
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Abstract: | Anaerobic digestion plants have the potential to produce biogas on demand to help balance renewable energy production and energy demand by consumers. A proportional integral (PI) controller is constructed and tuned with a novel tuning method to control biogas production in an optimal manner. In this approach, the proportional part of the controller is a function of the feeding rate and system's degree of stability. To estimate the degree of stability, a simulation-based soft sensor is developed. By means of the PI controller, the requirement for gas storage capacity of the digester is reduced by approximately 30 % compared to a constant, continuous feeding regime of the digester. |
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Keywords: | Flexible biogas production Methane production Proportional integral controllers Soft sensor |
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