An autonomous control system for boiler-turbine units

Author

Ben-Abdennour, Adel ; Lee, Kwang Y.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA, USA

Volume

11

Issue

2

fYear

1996

fDate

6/1/1996 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

401

Lastpage

406

Abstract

Achieving a more autonomous power plant operation is an important part of power plant control. To be autonomous, a control system needs to provide adequate control actions in the presence of significant uncertainties and/or disturbances, such as actuator or component failures, with minimum or no human assistance. However, a reasonable degree of autonomy is difficult to obtain without incorporating intelligence in the control system. This paper presents a coordinated intelligent control scheme with a high degree of autonomy. In this scheme, a fuzzy-logic based supervisor monitors the overall plant operation and carries out the tasks of coordination, fault diagnosis, fault isolation, and fault accommodation

Keywords

boilers; computerised monitoring; fault diagnosis; fault location; fuzzy control; intelligent control; monitoring; power station control; thermal power stations; turbines; actuator failures; autonomous control system; autonomous power plant operation; boiler-turbine units; component failures; coordinated intelligent control; fault accommodation; fault diagnosis; fault isolation; fuzzy-logic based supervisor; plant operation monitoring; power plant control; Actuators; Boilers; Control systems; Fault diagnosis; Intelligent control; Nonlinear dynamical systems; Power generation; Power system modeling; Turbines; Uncertainty;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Energy Conversion, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0885-8969

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/60.507652

Filename

507652