Control system in a gas pipeline network to satisfy demand constraints

    公开(公告)号:US09915399B1

    公开(公告)日:2018-03-13

    申请号:US15490344

    申请日:2017-04-18

    摘要: Controlling flow of gas in a gas pipeline network, wherein flow of gas within each pipeline segment is associated with a direction (positive or negative). Minimum and maximum delivery rates to each gas receipt facility are determined. Lower and upper flow bounds of gas delivery rate are created by bounding minimum and maximum signed flow rates using minimum and maximum delivery rates, respectively, for each pipe segment. A pressure drop relationship for each pipeline segment within the lower and upper flow bounds is linearized to create a linear pressure drop model for each pipeline segment. A network flow solution is calculated, which includes flow rates for each pipeline segment and pressures for each network nodes to satisfy the lower and upper flow bounds on the gas delivery rate. The network flow solution is associated with control element setpoints used by a controller to control one or more control elements.

    Solid fuel burner
    50.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US09709269B2

    公开(公告)日:2017-07-18

    申请号:US14224812

    申请日:2014-03-25

    IPC分类号: F23L7/00 F23D1/00

    摘要: A solid fuel/oxygen burner including an upstream section, an intermediary section, and a downstream section, a solid fuel conduit extending through the intermediary and downstream sections for transporting a mixture of solid fuel in a transport gas, the solid fuel conduit having a greater cross-sectional area in the downstream section than in the intermediary section, and a tubular fuel separator positioned within the solid fuel conduit in the downstream section, the fuel separator being bounded by an inlet plane and a outlet plane, the fuel separator dividing the fuel conduit into an inner nozzle having a cross-sectional area and an outer annular nozzle having a cross-sectional area, wherein the ratio of the outer nozzle cross-sectional area to the inner nozzle cross-sectional area measured at the outlet plane is greater than 1.