Temperature Modelling of the Biomass Pretreatment Process

Remus Mihail Prunescu; Mogens Blanke; Jakob M. Jensen; Gürkan Sin

Temperature Modelling of the Biomass Pretreatment Process

Remus Mihail Prunescu, Mogens Blanke, Jakob M. Jensen, Gürkan Sin

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Abstract

In a second generation biorefinery, the biomass pretreatment stage has an important contribution to the efficiency of the downstream processing units involved in biofuel production. Most of the pretreatment process occurs in a large pressurized thermal reactor that presents an irregular temperature distribution. Therefore, an accurate temperature model is critical for observing the biomass pretreatment. More than that, the biomass is also pushed with a constant
horizontal speed along the reactor in order to ensure a continuous throughput. The goal of this paper is to derive a temperature model that captures the environmental temperature differences inside the reactor using distributed parameters. A Kalman filter is then added to account for any missing dynamics and the overall model is embedded into a temperature soft sensor. The
operator of the plant will be able to observe the temperature in any point of the thermal reactor. Real data sets were extracted from the Inbicon biorefinery situated in Kalundborg, Denmark, and will be utilized to validate and test the temperature model.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 17th Nordic Process Control Workshop
Editors	John Bagterp Jørgensen, Jakob Kjøbsted Huusom, Gürkan Sin
Number of pages	10
Place of Publication	Kogens Lyngby
Publisher	Technical University of Denmark
Publication date	2012
ISBN (Print)	978-87-643-0946-1
Publication status	Published - 2012
Event	17th Nordic Process Control Workshop - Kongens Lyngby, Denmark Duration: 25 Jan 2012 → 27 Jan 2012 Conference number: 17 http://npcw17.imm.dtu.dk/

Conference

Conference	17th Nordic Process Control Workshop
Number	17
Country	Denmark
City	Kongens Lyngby
Period	25/01/2012 → 27/01/2012
Internet address	http://npcw17.imm.dtu.dk/

Keywords

Dynamic modelling
Computational fluid dynamics
Bioethanol
Biomass pretreatment
Thermal reactor
Biorefinery
Inbicon

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Temperature Modelling of the Biomass Pretreatment Process. / Prunescu, Remus Mihail; Blanke, Mogens; Jensen, Jakob M.; Sin, Gürkan.

Proceedings of the 17th Nordic Process Control Workshop. ed. / John Bagterp Jørgensen; Jakob Kjøbsted Huusom; Gürkan Sin. Kogens Lyngby : Technical University of Denmark, 2012.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review

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