Design and Simulation of Combustion Control System for the Oilfield Water Jacket Heater

The water jacket heating furnace has become the widely used crude oil storage and transportation equipment in the oilfield. And the improvement of its thermal efficiency has become one key issue of energy conservation and emission reduction. The combustion system of the oilfield water jacket heating furnace is designed by combining support vector machine with PID control in this paper. The flow rate of heated medium is predicted by the support vector machine (SVM). According to the flow rate of heated medium, the air and fuel in the heating furnace are optimized to increase thermal efficiency and reduce emissions. Through the calculation and simulation, the response speed of the combustion control system is faster and the thermal efficiency has been improved.