Thermal oil has been used as heat transfer fluid in many solar thermal power plants, which also use molten salts as thermal energy storage system. Since the engineering of these plants is relatively new, control of the thermal energy storage system is currently achieved in manual or semiautomatic ways, controlling its variables with proportional-integral-derivative (PID) regulators. Once the pl...

Statistical system identification and its use for the optimal control of thermal power plants are discussed. The analysis of the plant dynamics and derivation of the state-space representation are performed by fitting a multivariate AR model to the plant data obtained by an experiment. The basic concept of the power plant control and the motivation that necessitated the statistical approach are...

Fault diagnosis and fault tolerant control applications require that the structure of the target process contains certain redundancy in system observability and controllability. Usually the analysis of the existence of these properties is based on the laborious state space model of the process. However, the state space model is not necessary needed for the analysis. In this paper a structural a...

Fly ash from power plants is very toxic because it contains heavy metals. In this study fly ash was treated with a thermal plasma. Before their treatment, the fly ash was analyzed by many technics such as X-ray fluorescence, CHN elemental analysis, inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectroscopy and scanning electron microscopy. With these technics, the composition, the chemical and phy...

The demands for lowering the burdens on the environment will continue to grow steadily. It is important to monitor controlling factors in order to improve the operation of industrial thermal systems. In engines, exhaust gas temperature and concentration distributions are important factors in nitrogen oxides (NOx), total hydrocarbon (THC) and particulate matter (PM) emissions. Coal and fly ash c...

Optimal short-term hydrothermal generation cooperation (OSTHTGC) is used to determine the optimal operation strategy for cascaded hydropower plants and thermal plants. In this problem, equality constraints consisting of water time delay, reservoir volume, continuity water and power balance, as well as inequality constraints related to the limits of thermal and hydro generations are taken into a...

A thermal power station is a power plant in which the prime mover is steam driven. Water is heated, turns into steam and spins a steam turbine which drives an electrical generator. After it passes through the turbine, the steam is condensed in a condenser and recycled to where it was heated; this is known as a Rankine cycle. The greatest variation in the design of thermal power stations is due ...

1 his paper provides a U-J;P,G work for selecting heat exchangers materials especially those used in nuclear power plants. Typical examples of materials selection for heat exchanger tubing of nuclear power plants and condensers are presented. The paper brings out also, the importance of continued intensive R & D in materials in order to enhance the reliability and reduce cost by improving upon ...

This Software for Design Activity in power plants Equipments helps the power plant engineers and managers to manage the development and design activities of equipments in the field of power plants. This paper is basically concerned with the computerization of the design activity of Condenser, vital equipment in Heat Exchanger Unit (HEU) of Thermal power plant required for condensing the steam a...

The conversion of sunlight into electricity has been dominated by photovoltaic and solar thermal power generation. Photovoltaic cells are deployed widely, mostly as flat panels, whereas solar thermal electricity generation relying on optical concentrators and mechanical heat engines is only seen in large-scale power plants. Here we demonstrate a promising flat-panel solar thermal to electric po...