Overall control of fossil-fuel power plants

Author

Garduno-Ramirez, Raul ; Lee, Kwang Y.

Author_Institution

Electr. Res. Inst., Cuernavaca, Mexico

Volume

3

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

1209

Abstract

Under the trend toward market deregulation, effective plant-wide automation systems for operation and control of power units are of paramount importance for the survival and profitable operation of any electric utility. This paper identifies the overall unit control scheme as the core of any integral automation system for fossil-fuel power units and reviews several control strategies towards the implementation of such a scheme. The current trend in the design of overall control systems is shown, and several research niches are pointed out. It is concluded that the general problem of overall power unit control may be recast as the wide-range multi-objective optimal control of a nonlinear multivariable (large-scale) process with highly interactive dynamics, and the trend on the development of overall controls is that of incorporating different techniques into hybrid systems to make use of the good characteristics of each technique in a consistent symbiosis

Keywords

multivariable control systems; nonlinear control systems; optimal control; power station control; thermal power stations; control strategies; fossil-fuel power plants; fossil-fuel power units; interactive dynamics; market deregulation; nonlinear multivariable process; plant-wide automation systems; power units control; wide-range multi-objective optimal control; Automatic control; Automatic generation control; Automation; Character generation; Control systems; Hybrid power systems; Instruments; Power generation; Power industry; Power systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Engineering Society Winter Meeting, 2001. IEEE

Conference_Location

Columbus, OH

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6672-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PESW.2001.917247

Filename

917247