An Intelligent Approach in Monitoring and Controlling of Bunker Coal Level in Thermal Power Plant

Currently coal fired power plant requires bunker or stock piles in order to place the coal for storage purpose and to use it effectively when demand arises. Real time sensors are used to sense level of the coal and to pass data to computational systems for processing hence further actions such as refilling and distributing of coal can be automated. Further the control action in level sensing can be enhanced by using fuzzy logic controller which is an intelligent system. Thus the proposed system of coal unit provides the optimum control with increased efficiency. The simulation results are achieved by using LabVIEW.