A Hybrid System Approach for High Consumption Industrial Furnace Control

Goran Stojanovski, Mile Stankovski

Department of Automation and System, Engineering Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, Skopje, Macedonia.

DOI: 10.4236/ica.2012.34044                

Abstract

In this paper we describe a hybrid system approach for high consumption industrial furnace control. The problem is observed in systematic way starting from the need for modeling this system as hybrid. For description of this behavior we use the Hybrid System Description Language. After that, we design an optimal controller for the furnace and we simulate and compare the controller with other relevant predictive controllers. We have shown that using the hybrid approach for control of industrial furnaces leads to significant improvement of the control system performances.

Keywords

Hybrid Control; Industrial Furnace; Predictive Control

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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