The series Advances in Industrial Control aims to report and encourage technology transfer
in control engineering. The rapid development of control technology impacts all areas of the …

A dynamic modeling of Heat Recovery Steam Generator (HRSG) during cold start-up
operation in Combined Cycle Power Plant (CCPP) is introduced. In order to characterize the …

An overview is first provided of some of the most common formulations of Predictive Control,
such as Dynamic Matrix Control (DMC), Predictive Functional Control (PFC), Preview …

The development of a steam turbine dynamic model for full scope power plant simulators is
described in this work. Model completeness is one of the main features of the model …

Within power plants, several physical, chemical and mechanical processes are conducted to
transfer the energy, stored in fossil fuel, into electrical energy. This energy conversion is …

The paper presents a mathematical model to calculate the thermal efficiency of the steam
turbines with superheating, methodology forecasting for the Rankin cycle with superheated …

Exergy analysis plays a major role in thermal systems. Using exergy, apart from finding
components for a potential for further improvement, fault detection and diagnosis …

Nowadays, clean and high-power generation is essential matters worldwide. To be
improved and optimized, power plants require accurate models that can be introduced to …

This paper proposes a novel method of performance assessment for load control system of
thermal power unit. Load control system is the most important multivariable control system. It …

This work presents a novel design and development of a fuzzy predictive supervisory
controller, based on genetic algorithms (GA), for gas turbines of combined cycle units. The …