Improvement of Environmental Aspects of Thermal Power Plant Operation by Advanced Control Concepts

Mikulandrić, Robert and Lončar, Dražen and Schneider, Daniel Rolph and Franković, Valdi (2011) Improvement of Environmental Aspects of Thermal Power Plant Operation by Advanced Control Concepts. = Improvement of Environmental Aspects of Thermal Power Plant Operation by Advanced Control Concepts. In: 6th Dubrovnik Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems (SDEWES2011), 25–29.09.2011., Dubrovnik, Hrvatska.

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Abstract

The necessity of the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, as formulated in the Kyoto Protocol, impose the need for improving environmental aspects of existing thermal power plants operation. Improvements can be reached either by focusing on efficiency increase or by implementation of emission reduction measures. Investments in refurbishment of existing plant components or in plant upgrading by heat recovery systems, by flue gas desulphurization, by primary and secondary measures of nitrogen oxides reduction, or by biomass co-firing, are usually accompanied by modernisation of thermal power plant instrumentation and control system including sensors, equipment diagnostics and advanced controls. Impact of advanced control solutions implementation depends on technical characteristics and status of existing instrumentation and control systems as well as on design characteristics and actual conditions of installed plant components. Evaluation of adequacy of implementation of advanced control concepts is especially important in Western Balkan region where thermal power plants portfolio is rather diversified in terms of size, type and commissioning year and where generally poor maintenance and lack of investments in power generation sector resulted in high greenhouse gases emissions and low efficiency of plants in operation. This paper is intended to present possibilities of implementation of advanced control concepts, and particularly those based on artificial intelligence, in selected thermal power plants in order to increase plant efficiency and to lower pollutants emissions and to comply with environmental quality standards prescribed in large combustion plant directive.

Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (Lecture)
Keywords (Croatian): thermal power plant, efficiency, emmissions, advanced control concepts
Subjects: TECHNICAL SCIENCE > Mechanical Engineering
Divisions: 500 Department of Energy, Power Engineering and Environment > 510 Power Engineering and Energy Management Chair
Indexed in Web of Science: No
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Date Deposited: 13 Apr 2016 10:22
Last Modified: 19 May 2016 13:23
URI: http://repozitorij.fsb.hr/id/eprint/5565

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