scholarly journals The Guy at the Controls: Labor Quality and Power Plant Efficiency

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Bushnell ◽  
Catherine Wolfram
Keyword(s):  
Power Plant ◽  
Labor Quality ◽  
Plant Efficiency ◽  
Power Plant Efficiency

scholarly journals Membrane Permeability Threshold for Osmotic Power Plant Efficiency

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 49-53
Author(s):  
A Berger ◽  
◽  
A Lebrun ◽  
S Khan ◽  
Q Masson-Pilet ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Power Plant ◽  
Membrane Permeability ◽  
Plant Efficiency ◽  
Power Plant Efficiency

Processing feasibilities of enhancing the GTE-based electric power plant efficiency

2013 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. M. Gureev ◽  
E. B. Mats ◽  
V. N. Ivanova ◽  
M. V. Gureev ◽  
D. A. Malyshkin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Power Plant ◽  
Electric Power ◽  
Electric Power Plant ◽  
Plant Efficiency ◽  
Power Plant Efficiency

scholarly journals Methodology for implementing power plant efficiency standards for power generation: potential emission reduction

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 309-327 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. M. I. Mahlia ◽  
J. Y. Lim ◽  
Lisa Aditya ◽  
T. M. I. Riayatsyah ◽  
A. E. Pg Abas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Power Generation ◽  
Power Plant ◽  
Emission Reduction ◽  
Plant Efficiency ◽  
Power Plant Efficiency

scholarly journals Power Plant Optimisation—Effective Use of the Nelder-Mead Approach

Processes ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 357 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paweł Niegodajew ◽  
Maciej Marek ◽  
Witold Elsner ◽  
Łukasz Kowalczyk
Keyword(s):  
Power Plant ◽  
Software Package ◽  
Thermal Cycle ◽  
Optimal Solution ◽  
Search Method ◽  
Decision Variables ◽  
Effective Use ◽  
Integrated Software ◽  
Plant Efficiency ◽  
Power Plant Efficiency

This paper demonstrates the use of a combined software package including IPSEpro and MATLAB in the optimisation of a modern thermal cycle. A 900 MW power plant unit (operating at ultra-supercritical conditions) was considered as the study object. The Nelder-Mead simplex-based, direct search method was used to increase power plant efficiency and to find the optimal thermal cycle configuration. As the literature reveals, the Nelder-Mead approach is very sensitive to the simplex size and to the choice of method coefficients, i.e., reflection, expansion and contraction. When these coefficients are improperly chosen, the finding of the optimal solution cannot be guaranteed, particularly in such complex systems as thermal cycles. Hence, the main goal of the present work was to demonstrate the capability of an integrated software package including IPSEpro, MATLAB and MS Excel in the optimisation process of a complex thermal cycle, as well as to examine the effectiveness of the most popular sets of Nelder-Mead coefficients previously proposed by other researchers. For the investigation purposes, the bleed and outlet pressures from the turbines were considered as decision variables, and the power plant efficiency was used as an objective function.

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