A comparative study of optimization algorithms for low NOx combustion modification at a coal-fired utility boiler

Authors:
Li-Gang Zheng;Hao Zhou;Ke-Fa Cen;Chun-Lin Wang
Affiliations:
State Key Laboratory of Clean Energy Utilization, Institute for Thermal Power Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China;State Key Laboratory of Clean Energy Utilization, Institute for Thermal Power Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China;State Key Laboratory of Clean Energy Utilization, Institute for Thermal Power Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China;State Key Laboratory of Clean Energy Utilization, Institute for Thermal Power Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
Venue:
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Year:
2009

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Abstract

NOx emissions from power plants pose terrible threat to the surrounding environment. The aim of this work is to achieve low NOx emissions form a coal-fired utility boiler by using combustion optimization. Support vector regression (SVR) was proposed in the first stage to model the relation between NOx emissions and operational parameters of the utility boiler. The grid search method, by comparing with GA, was preferably chosen as the approach for the selection of SVR's parameters. A mass of NOx emissions data from the utility boiler was employed to build the SVR model. The predicted NOx emissions from SVR model were in good agreement with the measured. In the second stage, two variants of ant colony optimization (ACO) as well as genetic algorithm (GA) and particle swarm optimization (PSO) were employed to find the optimum operating parameters to reduce the NOx emissions. The results show that the hybrid algorithm by combining SVR and optimization algorithms with the exception of PSO can effectively reduce NOx emissions of the coal-fired utility boiler below the legislation requirement of China. Comparison among various algorithms shows the performance of the well-designed ACO outperforms those of classical GA and PSO in terms of the quality of solution and the convergence rate.