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Pso: A Novel Technique To Optimize A Coal Preparation Plant, Vishal Gupta, Hussain Unjawala, Ajay Mahajan, Manoj Mohanty
Pso: A Novel Technique To Optimize A Coal Preparation Plant, Vishal Gupta, Hussain Unjawala, Ajay Mahajan, Manoj Mohanty
Dr. Ajay Mahajan
A coal preparation plant typically has multiple cleaning circuits based on size of coal particles. Each circuit is operated to produce the same product quality so that the blend of clean coal meets the targeted product quality constraints. Though, this approach of producing the clean coal satisfies the product quality constraints as given by the customer, it may suffer from the loss of overall clean coal yield by 1–2%. Numerous studies conducted in the past illustrate that the optimal yield can be obtained by operating each circuit to produce the same incremental product quality. However, this approach is good enough …
Performance Optimization Of A Coal Preparation Plant Using Genetic Algorithms, Vishal Gupta, Manoj Mohanty, Ajay Mahajan, Surendra Biswal
Performance Optimization Of A Coal Preparation Plant Using Genetic Algorithms, Vishal Gupta, Manoj Mohanty, Ajay Mahajan, Surendra Biswal
Dr. Ajay Mahajan
A coal preparation plant typically has multiple cleaning circuits based on size of coal particles. The traditional way of optimizing the plant output and meeting the product constraints such as ash, sulfur and moisture content is to equalize the average product quality from each circuit. The present study includes multiple incremental product quality approach to optimize the clean coal recovery while satisfying the product constraints. The plant output was optimized at the given constraints of 7.5% ash and 1.3% sulfur. It was observed that utilizing incremental product quality process gives 2.13% higher yield which can generate additional revenue of $4,260,000 …