Performance Modelling of Co-Fired Palm Kernel Shell -Pulverized Coal Blend in Steam Power Plant

Design of MPC for Superheated Steam Temperature Control in a Coal-fired Thermal Power Plant

A superheater is an essential part of the steam generation process in the boiler-turbine system. Reliable control of temperature in the superheated steam temperature system is necessary to guarantee efficiency and high load-following capability in the operation of coal-fired Thermal power plant. The PI and PID controllers are extensively used in cascade control of secondary superheated steam te...

Improvement of Efficiency of Coal-Fired Steam Power Plant by Reducing Heat Rejection Temperature at Condenser Using Kalina Cycle

This paper proposes an approach for improving the plant efficiency by reducing the heat rejection temperature of power cycle using Kalina Cycle System 11 (KCS11) which is integrated at the steam condenser of a 500 MWe SubC (subcritical) coal-fired power plant. It is modelled by using power plant simulation software ‘Cycle Tempo’ at different plant operating conditions. Results show t...

Computational Fluid Dynamic Analysis of Co-Firing of Palm Kernel Shell and Coal

The increasing global demand for palm oil and its products has led to a significant growth in palm plantations and palm oil production. Unfortunately, these bring serious environmental problems, largely because of the large amounts of waste material produced, including palm kernel shell (PKS). In this study, we used computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to investigate the PKS co-firing of a 300 MW...

Dynamic modelling of CO 2 absorption for post combustion capture in coal - fired power plants 1

Thermoeconomic operation optimization of a coal-fired power plant

Thermoeconomic models, which combine the concept of cost in the field of economics and the concept of exergy in the field of thermodynamics, provide a possibility of optimizing complex energy-generating systems to achieve a best balance between thermodynamic efficiency and economic cost (including investment cost and operation cost). For the first time, operation optimization on a 300 MW coal-f...