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...

Electricity generation in thermal power plants as the largest producer of electricity in Iran is associated with greenhouse gas emissions. In this paper, using the Malmquist-Luenberger method, green productivity, and efficiency changes are measured for 31 thermal power plants (including 12 steam power plants, 13 gas power plants, and six combined cycle power plants) during 2009-2016. The result...

Automatic water level control methods for open channels have difficulties to keep good performances for a large range of flow and significant unknown disturbances. A new concept called Model-Free Control is applied in this paper for hydroelectric run-of-the river power plants. To modulate power generation, a level trajectory is planned for cascaded power plants. Numerous dynamic simulations sho...

The energy saving and emission reduction in thermal plant is complex, with the open, non-equilibrium and interoperability features. In order to identifying the order parameters affecting plant system, a co-evolution model of energy saving and emission reduction in thermal power plant was built based on synergetic theory. According to the feathers of potential function based on mutation theory, ...

Networked automation architectures with Ethernet-based fieldbuses instead of traditional fieldbuses are more and more often used in industry, even for critical systems such as chemical or nuclear power plants. The strong safety requirements of these processes impose to evaluate the time performances of these complex architectures. Formal verification techniques are promising solutions to reach ...

Benchmarking cleaner production performance is an effective way of pollution control and emission reduction in coal-fired power industry. A benchmarking method using two-stage super-efficiency data envelopment analysis for coal-fired power plants is proposed – firstly, to improve the cleaner production performance of DEA-inefficient or weakly DEA-efficient plants, then to select the benchmark f...

production of electricity for promotion of people’s welfares is inevitable.there are about 54000 mw of various power plants in iran. the type of power plants includes gas, steam, combined, hydro and a very minute amount of wind mills. the per capita electricity production is about 2200 kwh. power plants can impose adverse environmental impacts during construction and utilization phases. envir...