Thermal power plant simulation and control

Front Matter......Page 1
List of Contributors......Page 3
Preface......Page 6
Table of Contents......Page 0
Table of Contents......Page 9
List of Abbreviations......Page 13
1.1 Power Plant Historical Development......Page 16
1.2 Plant Configuration and Design......Page 17
1.3 Control and Instrumentation......Page 20
1.4 External Influences......Page 24
1.6 References......Page 28
2.1 Introduction......Page 30
2.2 Model Structuring by the Object-oriented Approach......Page 31
2.3 Basic Component Models......Page 40
2.4 Modelling of Distributed Control Systems......Page 63
2.5 Application of Dynamic Decoupling to Power Plant Models......Page 65
2.6 Testing and  Validation of Developed Models......Page 66
2.7 Concluding Remarks and Open Problems......Page 69
2.8 References......Page 70
3.1 Introduction......Page 75
3.2 Modelling of Coal  Mills......Page 76
3.3 Plant Tests, Results and Fitting Model Parameters......Page 83
3.4 Mill Control......Page 92
3.5 Intelligent Control and Operator Advisory Systems......Page 104
3.8 References......Page 109
4.1 Introduction......Page 113
4.2 Local Model Networks......Page 114
4.3 Controller Design......Page 120
4.4 Micromachine Test Facility......Page 125
4.5 Results......Page 129
4.6 Conclusions......Page 136
4.7 References......Page 139
5.1 Introduction......Page 142
5.2 Plant and Control Description......Page 144
5.3 Advanced Evaporator Control......Page 148
5.4 Advanced Superheater Control......Page 158
5.6 References......Page 170
6.1 Introduction......Page 172
6.2 A Combined Cycle Thermal Power Plant......Page 173
6.3 Design of Supervisory Control Strategies for a Combined Cycle Thermal Plant......Page 179
6.4 Application to the Thermal Power Plant Simulator......Page 182
6.5 Discussion and Conclusions......Page 187
6.7 References......Page 188
7.1 Introduction......Page 190
7.2 Classical Control of Thermal Power Plants......Page 192
7.3 Multivariable Control Strategies......Page 195
7.4 An Application: MBPC Control of a 320 MW Oil-fired Plant......Page 200
7.6 Acknowledgements......Page 211
7.7 References......Page 212
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8.1 Introduction......Page 215
8.2 Power Unit Requirements for Wide-range Operation......Page 217
8.3 Conventional Power Unit Control......Page 219
8.4 Feedforward/Feedback Control Strategy......Page 223
8.5 Knowledge-based Feedforward Control......Page 231
8.6 Design of Neurofuzzy Controllers......Page 234
8.7 Wide-range Load-following......Page 238
8.8 Summary and Conclusions......Page 248
8.10 References......Page 249
9.1 Emissions from Coal-fired Power Stations......Page 252
9.2 An Overview of NO_2 Formation Mechanisms......Page 257
9.3 NO_2 Emission Models for a 500 MW Power Generation Unit......Page 262
9.4 Conclusions......Page 272
9.6 References......Page 276
10.1 Introduction......Page 278
10.2 Description of Power Plant Application......Page 280
10.3 Grey-box Modelling and Identification of a Power Plant......Page 296
10.4 A General Approach to Receding-horizon Estimation for Non-linear Systems......Page 304
10.6 References......Page 316
11.1 Introduction......Page 318
11.2 Outline of Data Mining Applications......Page 319
11.3 Identification of Process and Sensor Faults......Page 320
11.4 Process Monitoring and Optimisation......Page 334
11.5 Non-linear PLS Modelling......Page 343
11.6 Discussion and Conclusions......Page 347
11.8 References......Page 350
12.1 Plant Management in a Deregulated Electricity Market......Page 354
12.2 Supervisory Control......Page 355
12.3 System Integration and HMI Issues......Page 359
12.4 Performance Monitoring......Page 360
12.5 Added Value Applications......Page 363
12.6 Conclusions......Page 369
12.7 References......Page 370
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13.1 Introduction......Page 372
13.2 A Review of Physical Model-based Thermal Power Plant Control Approaches......Page 373
13.3 Control Problems of a Thermal Power Plant......Page 375
13.4 Applying a Physical Model-based Predictive Control Strategy......Page 382
13.5 Simulation Results......Page 388
13.6 Discussion and Conclusions......Page 396
13.8 References......Page 398
14.1 Introduction......Page 401
14.2 Age and Reliability of Plants......Page 402
14.3 Improving Asset Management......Page 407
14.4 The Impacts of Cycling on Power Plant Performance......Page 411
14.5 Improving Maintenance Approaches......Page 413
14.6 Power Plant Networks: Redefining Information Flow......Page 416
14.7 Conclusions......Page 419
14.8 References......Page 420
14.9 Bibliography......Page 421
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