A combustion system including a fuel storage stores solid fuel, a supply device connected to the fuel storage, a combustion device combusts supplied solid fuel, and a prediction device for predicting a switching time for types of solid fuel supplied from the fuel storage to the combustion device via the supply device. The prediction device comprises at least one processor configured to acquire a level of solid fuel stored in the fuel storage, predict, as the switching time, a future time when a level obtained by extrapolating time-dependent change in decrease in the level of the solid fuel reaches a threshold value, and display the switching time on a display device.

A carbon sequestration system includes a furnace having an oxy-combustion burner, a mill configured to receive a fuel and to provide the fuel to the oxy-combustion burner, a waste heat recovery exchanger configured to receive a flue gas from the furnace, the flue gas ultimately supplied to one or more of an overfire air port of the furnace, the oxy-combustion burner, the mill, and a CO.sub.2 purification unit, the CO.sub.2 purification unit configured to produce a purified CO.sub.2 stream.

An anomaly detection device detects an abnormal condition of a coal-fired boiler and includes a correlation calculating unit to acquire an index representing a correlation between a first parameter and a second parameter, the first parameter that is any one of a power generation amount and a first physical quantity, and the second parameter that is any one of a pressure of an exhaust gas and a second physical quantity and an anomaly determination unit configured to detect the abnormal condition in a case in which the index deviates from a predetermined range.

The present invention provides a method and apparatus for controlled burning of experimental solid fuel test strands. The fuel test strand is advanced by a screw attached to a computer-controlled stepper motor. The stepper motor controls the fuel test strand position via a proportional-integral-derivative (PID) control loop, adjusting velocity based on transmission of a diode laser beam located at the desired fuel surface position. This provides real-time monitoring of fuel strand position and fuel regression rate during combustion experiments.

The disclosure provides a coal conveying control system and method for a thermal power plant. The system includes: a model prediction module, used for building an operating load prediction model, and obtaining a boiler operating load optimal value; a load calculation module, used for drawing an operating load difference value curve, and determining a boiler coal consumption change amount; a speed control module, used for determining a coal conveying amount of a coal conveying system, and controlling operating speed of a coal conveying belt according to the coal conveying amount; a quality calculation module, used for calculating boiler operating efficiency, and determining a coal quality parameter according to the boiler operating efficiency; a fineness control module, used for determining a coal particle parameter, setting target coal particle fineness according to the coal particle parameter, and controlling a screening and crushing device according to the target coal particle fineness.

The disclosure provides a coal conveying control system and method for a thermal power plant. The system includes: a model prediction module, used for building an operating load prediction model, and obtaining a boiler operating load optimal value; a load calculation module, used for drawing an operating load difference value curve, and determining a boiler coal consumption change amount; a speed control module, used for determining a coal conveying amount of a coal conveying system, and controlling operating speed of a coal conveying belt according to the coal conveying amount; a quality calculation module, used for calculating boiler operating efficiency, and determining a coal quality parameter according to the boiler operating efficiency; a fineness control module, used for determining a coal particle parameter, setting target coal particle fineness according to the coal particle parameter, and controlling a screening and crushing device according to the target coal particle fineness.

A carbon sequestration system includes a furnace having an oxy-combustion burner, a mill configured to receive a fuel and to provide the fuel to the oxy-combustion burner, a waste heat recovery exchanger configured to receive a flue gas from the furnace, the flue gas ultimately supplied to one or more of an overfire air port of the furnace, the oxy-combustion burner, the mill, and a CO.sub.2 purification unit, the CO.sub.2 purification unit configured to produce a purified CO.sub.2 stream.