Submitting an automation method for detection cavitations in hydro turbines considering sensitivity parameters (Sefidroud hydroelectric power plant dam)

An Overview of Hydroelectric Power Plant: Operation, Modeling, and Control

Renewable energy provides twenty percent of electricity generation worldwide. Hydroelectric power is the cheapest way to generate electricity today. It is a renewable source of energy and provides almost one-fifth of electricity in the world. Also, it generates electricity using a renewable natural resource and accounting for six percent of worldwide energy supply or about fifteen percent of th...

Unsupervised Neural Network for Forecasting Alarms in Hydroelectric Power Plant

Power plant management relies on monitoring many signals that represent the technical parameters of the real plant. The use of neural networks (NN) is a novel approach that can help to produce decisions when integrated in a more general system. In this paper we introduce a NN module using an ART-MAP to discriminate different situations from the plant in order to prevent future malfunctions. A s...

IndustrialIT for Power Generation Power Plant Automation

Fuzzy Logic Based Hydro-Electric Power Dam Control System

This research paper presents the construction design of Hydro-Electric Power Dam Control System using Fuzzy Logic. In this design two input parameters: water level and flow rate and two output parameters: release valve control and drain valve control are used. This proposed system uses a simplified algorithmic design approach with wide range of input and output membership functions. The hardwar...

Model-based Approach for Multi-sensor Fault Identification in Power Plant Gas Turbines

In this paper, ‎the multi-sensor fault diagnosis in the exhaust temperature sensors of a V94.2 heavy duty gas turbine is presented‎. ‎A Laguerre network-based fuzzy modeling approach is presented to predict the output temperature of the gas turbine for sensor fault diagnosis‎. Due to the nonlinear dynamics of the gas turbine, in these models the Laguerre filter parts are related to the linear d...

AC/DC/AC converter in a small hydroelectric power plant

The article discusses application of AC/DC/AC converter cooperating with an induction generator in small hydroelectric power plants. The induction generator works with power grid or a separated group of receivers, enabling to generate power even at low speeds of the turbine. The article provides also results of the investigation concerning the functioning of the generator coupled with AC/DC/AC ...