Advanced Control for a Sugar Cane Crushing Mill

摘要

The application detailed in this paper pertains to the A-side crushing process at CSR Ltd's Victoria Mill, Ingham, Queensland. In spite of the similarity of these mills to others in use throughout the Australian sugar industry, these particular mills appear unusually uncontrollable and exhibit lengthy periods of poor extraction performance under PID control. These mills therefore stand to gain the most from any improvement in control performance.