Power Plant Applications of Advanced Control Techniques
There is a wide gap between the possibilities offered by the advanced control techniques and their current applications in power plants.
How can the application of advanced control techniques result in direct economic benefit? The following example provides a hint: An improved control method may keep the superheated steam temperature of a thermal power plant within a narrower band. This decreased fluctuation in turn allows a higher set-point of the same temperature, since the maximum permissible steam temperature is determined by the properties of the steel material used. A higher average live steam temperature directly increases the efficiency of the plant, which means a direct decrease in fuel expenses. As the book covers the overlapping areas of power plant technology and control engineering, it was written in such a way that experts coming from any of these directions could read, understand and utilize it without difficulty. The book contains an overall technical introduction followed by 18 successful applications.
10 of the applications deal with thermal power plants. The others are solar-, wind-, photovoltaic-, fuel cell- and hydro applications.
9 solutions were implemented and tested on real industrial power plants, the others on lab-scale utilities or models.
5 applications used the MPC control technique. The others applied DMC, neural network, fuzzy, gain scheduling or others.
8 chapters came from leading industrial companies, the others from top university researchers.
Information
| Editor | Pal Szentannai |
|---|---|
| Veröffentlichungsdatum | 2010 |
| Sprache | English |
| Seiten | 500 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3902655110 |
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