Abstract:
Incineration plants are used since the beginning of the twentieth century to transform the mixed municipal waste into thermal
energy and to convert the hazardous components of waste into harmless compounds. To minimize the environmental pollution
and maximize the energy efficiency of the produced energy, the control of the complex processes that occur into the waste to
energy conversion is of major importance. In this work, the system identification approach is used to determine the dynamic
model of the incineration processes and is analyzed in contrast with the theory-based models. The analysis' results prove that the
system identification algorithms produce consistent estimates for the given processes.