Power Plant Control Articles
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Own energy with added and nutritional value - Case Study
Own energy with added and nutritional valueThe Wu¨rzbauer family uses the E3/DC home power station for their bakery and pension The energy management controls own supply from PV and the CHP unit 85% of the electricity comes from own generation on an annual average Facts at a glance Object: commercial building, usable area: 1,700 m2, year of construction: 1963 Location: ...
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Lufft Partner supplied solar park in Egypt
Following the successful commissioning of a 64.1 MW Benban solar power plant in Egypt in December 2017, system integrator Gantner Instruments Environment Solutions GmbH announced that it will equip three more plants of the Benban complex with a solar monitoring system. The new solar systems have a total capacity of 166.5 MW. The chosen "Made in Germany" solution from Gantner is a tailor-made, ...
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Heat Recovery Steam Generators (HRSG) & Blowdown Pump Stations
Romtec Utilities engineers and supplies pump stations for many different applications for industrial facilities across the country. These facilities range from chemical manufacturing to oil & gas refineries, and power generation is another industrial market where Romtec Utilities excels. We have supplied many different types of pumping systems for power gen facilities for wastewater, ...
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An applied research study on information technology talent management and knowledge management innovations for Generation Y information technology professionals in the nuclear power industry
Nuclear power plants rely on computerised Instrumentation and Control (I&C) systems in monitoring, control and protection at nuclear facilities. I&C systems serve a critical role in monitoring and control functions in nuclear power plants (National Research Council, 1997). To support the use of I&C systems, nuclear power organisations have expanded the intellectual capital of their workforces ...
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Scalable diversity-oriented decisions and technologies for dependable SoPC-based safety-critical computer systems and infrastructures
An approach to development and implementation of multi-version technologies (MVT) for creating dependable system-on-programmable chip (SoPC)-based systems and infrastructures is described. It is based on a set of scalable diversity-oriented decisions selected using the proposed MVT-graph. This technique is applied for development of nuclear power plants (NPP) instrumentation and control (I&C) ...
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The state of the art in nuclear power plant instrumentation and control
Advances over the past decade in process Instrumentation and Control (I&C) for nuclear power plants have occurred in three areas: 1. digital I&C; 2. sensors and transmitters; 3. online monitoring. These areas are the subject of this paper, including a discussion of the related opportunities and challenges.Keywords: digital instrumentation, digital control, nuclear power plants, NPP, nuclear ...
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Steady-state analysis of doubly fed induction generators for wind turbines using MATLAB
A wind energy conversion system (WECS) differs from a conventional power system. The power output of a conventional power plant can be controlled whereas; the power output of a WECS depends on the wind. This nature of WECS makes it difficult for analysis, design and management. Various approaches have been developed to study the behaviour of WECS. In this paper, the steady-state characteristics ...
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A long year in the life of the US coal industry
With concerns about climate change mounting, the era of coal-fired electricity generation in the United States may be coming to a close. In early 2007, a US Department of Energy report listed 151 coal-fired power plants in the planning stages in the United States. But during 2007, 59 proposed plants were either refused licenses by state governments or quietly abandoned. In addition, close to 50 ...
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Effects of intentional threats to power substation control systems
Power station control and management systems represent key elements for guaranteeing the security of the power grid infrastructure. Intrinsically conceived to support the continuous provision of power in secure conditions, those systems today make intensive use of information and communication systems and are therefore exposed to related accidental and intentional cyber threats. This paper ...
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On system validity, quasi-experiments, and safety: a critique of NUREG/CR-6393
Based on the methods of Cook and Campbell (1979), a quasi-experimental validation model for complex human–machine systems has been recommended for the final evaluation of nuclear power plant control rooms (O'Hara et al., 1997). This model-based approach to validating systems and assuring safety is critiqued in terms of experimental theory and engineering practice. It is concluded that the model ...
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A novel technique proposed for automatic control of small hydro power plants
A new scheme is proposed for the speed control of hydro turbines. Power can be controlled by controlling the rotary motion of the spear valve or linear motion of the sluice gate. In this paper, necessity for speed control, various function of governors, types, speed regulation of micro-hydroelectric power plants, functional block diagram of power generation and control system general models for ...
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An Introduction to the Topic: Controlling Mercury Emissions from Coal-Fired Power Plants
Untitled Document Mercury is a hazardous air pollutant (HAP) that circulates around the globe for a year before depositing back to earth. Mercury emissions from electric power generation sources were estimated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to be 48 t/yr, constituting the single largest anthropogenic source of mercury in the United ...
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Towards an European Fuel Cell Strategy
Head of Unit 'Energy Consumption Technology' At the onset of the Fourth Framework Programme for Community research and technological development including demonstration, a ten year fuel cell strategy for Europe was published in 1995 jointly by DG XII (Directorate General for Science, Research and Development) and DG XVII (Directorate General for Energy). The interest of the European Community ...
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