Because of its strong inherent safety features and high outlet temperature, the modular high temperature gas-cooled nuclear reactor (MHTGR) is already seen as the central part of the next generation of nuclear plants. Such power plants are being considered for industrial applications with a wide range of power levels, and thus power-level control is an important technique for their efficient an...

Electrostatic Precipitators (ESP) are most important device used to control the pollution by collecting dust particles present on flue gases. In power plants, Coal used in Indian thermal power stations is of inferior grade, at power plant flue gas is often treated with a series of chemical process and scrubbers, having low calorific value (3500-4500)kcal/kg and high ash content due to drift ori...

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...