Intelligent Parallel Networks for Combustion Quality Monitoring in Power Station Boilers

Abstract

This research work includes a combination of Fisher’s Linear Discriminant (FLD) analysis by combining Radial Basis Function Network (RBF) and Back Propagation Algorithm (BPA) for monitoring the combustion conditions of a coal fired boiler so as to control the air/fuel ratio. For this two dimensional flame images are required which was captured with CCD camera whose features of the images, average intensity, area, brightness and orientation etc., of the flame are extracted after pre-processing the images. The FLD is applied to reduce the n-dimensional feature size to 2 dimensional feature size for faster learning of the RBF. Also three classes of images corresponding to different burning conditions of the flames have been extracted from a continuous video processing. In this the corresponding temperatures, the Carbon monoxide (CO) emissions and other flue gases have been obtained through measurement. Further the training and testing of Parallel architecture of Radial Basis Function and Back Propagation Algorithm (PRBFBPA) with the data collected have been done and the performance of the algorithms is presented.