The study seeks to show how online remote condition monitoring helps to improve the maintenance system in a power plant from mainly predetermined and corrective approach to predictive maintenance and, the resultant benefits of its adoption. The findings clearly indicate the various aspects of online remote condition monitoring system which thermal power plants can consider to improve on plant s...

In an interconnected power system, as a power load demand varies randomly both area frequency and tie-line power interchange also vary. The objectives of load frequency control (LFC) are to minimize the deviations in these variables (area frequency and tie-line power interchange) and to ensure their steady state errors to be zero. In this area of energy crisis, renewable energy is the most prom...

In order to evaluate the reliability characteristics of the electricity generating systems which in addition to thermal plants with unlimited available energy includes also hydroelectric plants, beside the stochastic outages of generating units, the limitation of the – from stochastic inflows dependent – available amounts of primary energy (water) must be also taken into account. Therefore the ...

This paper discusses the environmental effects of incorporating wind energy into the electric power system. We present a detailed emissions analysis based on comprehensive modeling of power system operations with unit commitment and economic dispatch for different wind penetration levels. First, by minimizing cost, the unit commitment model decides which thermal power plants will be utilized ba...

the growth of the electrical energy consumption form one side and the bounded available fossil fuel and other limitations from the other side, makes the thermal power plants upgrading as a main demand in the world. decreasing the internal energy consumption, increasing the performance and the output power with the minimum costs are the important targets of the power plants retrofitting. nowaday...