Patent ID: 8374709

Claim:
A system for optimizing a chemical looping plant, the system comprising: a first chemical loop having a first input for receiving a first input parameter and a first output for outputting a first output parameter; the first chemical loop comprising an oxidizer and a reducer; the oxidizer being effective to oxidize reduced solids and transport the oxidized solids to the reducer; the reducer being effective to reduce the oxidized solids and transport the reduced solids to the oxidizer; and a control system operably connected to the first chemical loop and comprising a plurality of selectable controllers, wherein the control system receives the first output parameter, optimizes the first input parameter based on the received first output parameter, and outputs an optimized first input parameter to the first input of the first chemical loop to control a process of the first chemical loop in an optimized manner, wherein the control system comprises: a multiple controller input adapter, which selects one of a model-free controller, a proportional-integral-derivative controller, a fuzzy controller and a neural network adaptive controller based on the output parameter of the chemical loop.