Title :
Fuzzy logic supervisory control for steam turbine prewarming automation
Author :
Badami, Vivek V. ; Chiang, Kenneth H. ; Houpt, Paul K. ; Bonisonne, Piero P.
Author_Institution :
Corp. Res. & Dev., Gen. Electr. Co., Schenectady, NY, USA
Abstract :
The process of warming a large steam turbine after an extended period of maintenance or inactivity is called “prewarming”. Currently, many large steam turbines are prewarmed manually in an otherwise completely automated startup procedure. An approach is outlined for automating the prewarming of large steam turbines using fuzzy logic. In this approach, heuristics employed by a human operator during prewarming are captured in a fuzzy rule base and used by a supervisory controller
Keywords :
fuzzy control; fuzzy logic; heating; starting; steam turbines; automated startup procedure; fuzzy logic supervisory control; fuzzy rule base; heuristics; prewarming automation; steam turbine; supervisory controller; Automatic control; Automation; Fuzzy logic; Gears; Stress; Supervisory control; Temperature; Turbines; Turning; Valves;
Conference_Titel :
Fuzzy Systems, 1994. IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence., Proceedings of the Third IEEE Conference on
Conference_Location :
Orlando, FL
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-1896-X
DOI :
10.1109/FUZZY.1994.343880
