background: this study presents a framework for development of integrated health, safety and ergonomic (hse) in complex critical systems. total ergonomics model considers conventional ergonomics factors as well as management and organizational factors. methods : control room operation and maintenance department of a thermal power plant was chosen as the case of our study. to achieve the above o...

background: total system design (tsd) factors are design factors, which have impact on overall performance of the power plants in context of total human engineering or macroergonomic. the evaluation of the impact of tsd factors was the main goal of this study. the main objective was human factors engineering on human performance in a power plant. methods : the systems being studied are the cont...

In the present paper. a mathematical model of a combustion steam generator is presented. The model of power plant was implemented using GE GateCycle code. The effects of Over Fire Air and Reburning combustion techniques on the plant performance were studied using from both theoretical and experimental approach. Experimental data were studied and represented depending on the combustion parameter...

Many thermal power plants use coal as their fuel. To handle the coal, each power station is equipped with a coal handling plant. The coal has to be sized, processed, and handled which should be done effectively and efficiently. While working in the coal handling plant the major factor which reduces staff efficiency is the working environment i.e. a dusty atmosphere. Lots of care is always taken...

Organic Rankine Cycle power plants use organic, high molecular mass fluids to allow heat recovery from lower temperature sources such as industrial waste heat, geothermal heat, solar etc. The expansion process is usually carried out by axial or radial turbines. However, when the available thermal power is less than 1000 kW, the usage of positive-displacement expander becomes more suitable. In t...

The numerical simulation of the water temperature in the Rı́o de la Plata River and Montevideo’s Bay was done using the numerical model of finite elements RMA-10 in its 2D vertical integrated mode. Parameters involved in the formulations of thermal exchange with the atmosphere were adjusted using measurements of water temperature in several locations of the water body. After calibrating the mode...

This paper proposes an adaptive constraint based framework for fault detection of a complex thermal power plant system. In many complex systems, representation of precise and crisp constraints uses formal specification languages such as Object Constraint Language (OCL). Here, a constraint based neuro-fuzzy controller to tackle imprecise constrained objects is proposed. The proposed inference sy...

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...

Model-based control design is essential in the control of solar power plants. Dynamic linguistic equation (LE) models operate accurately in most operating conditions. Smooth transitions between submodels are based on fuzzy logic and fuzzy set systems are also used for special situations. The hybrid simulator has been tested with extensive process data, and the adaptive controller tuned with the...