Power generation using gas turbine power plants operating on the Brayton cycle suffers from low efficiencies. In this work, a solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) is proposed for integration into a 10 MW gas turbine power plant, operating at 30% efficiency. The SOFC system utilizes four heat exchangers for heat recovery from both the turbine outlet and the fuel cell outlet to ensure a sufficiently high...

A novel liquefied natural gas (LNG) fueled power plant is proposed, which has virtually zero CO2 and other emissions and a high efficiency. Natural gas is fired in highly enriched oxygen and recycled CO2 flue gas. The plant operates in a quasi-combined cycle mode with a supercritical CO2 Rankine-like cycle and a CO2 Brayton cycle, interconnected by the heat transfer process in the recuperation ...

Environmental and economic objective functions are used simultaneously to select the operating conditions of a steam and power plant. Different methodologies to solve bi objective optimization problems were implemented successfully. The life cycle potential environmental impact and the operating cost of the utility plant are minimized simultaneously. A methodology is presented to estimate the p...

This process through the indirect use of intense heat in the absence of oxygen is able to reduce the material covered in fuel gas and organic matter. which reduces the material in a combustible gas and inorganic matter. The Thermax© pilot plant allows a thermal degradation that completely sanitizes waste destroying its toxic components through molecular dissociation. This technology also stands...

In this paper, fuzzy switching control of the complete oil cycle of Shiraz solar power plant is presented. So far, in the literature, only modeling and control of the collectors’ field of a solar power plant, which is a part of the complete oil cycle, have been studied. According to various environmental conditions, input disturbances and design constraints in some components, changes of the oi...

In this paper a Mixed Integer Dynamic Optimization (MIDO) framework is exploited for combined Unit Commitment and Economic Load Scheduling (UCELS) optimization of power plants. Economic load scheduling optimization problem is formulated as a Dynamic Optimization (DO) problem that allows us to optimize the plant operations by taking into account the time varying dynamics. Dynamic optimization pr...

This study investigates the transformation of energy models to align with machine learning requirements as a promising tool for optimizing operation combined cycle power plants (CCPPs). By modeling production function environmental and control variables, this methodology offers an innovative way achieve energy-efficient generation in context data-driven application. focuses on developing thorou...

In today’s scenario, ensuring sustainability of energy system particularly in the field power generation is a major concern, and this regard, exergy analysis widely accepted tool. For purpose, first, comprehensive performance carried out between two gas turbine plants, i.e., GT2 (case I) GT1 II) using various parameters. Further, evaluation three cases; I), CCPP III) different indicators such a...