The strategy of sustainable development is one of the two important strategies for Chinese economic development. The present small scale thermal power plants cause much pollution, and consume too much energy, so they are being confronted with the crises of existence and management. Accordingly, it is urgent for small scale thermal power plants to carry out study on the crisis management about t...

Rational planning of thermal power capacity is one of the main measures to reduce emissions. According to air pollution control plan, different environmental capacity regions provide different constraints to the scale of thermal power plants. With the development of electric market, unified relationship among thermal power plants has been changed to gambling one. To solve the above new problems...

For a solar power plant, storing energy enables utilities to generate power when and as required and not just when sun is shining. There are two popular ways to convert solar energy to electricity – solar photovoltaic (PV) and solar thermal. In a solar PV plant sun’s energy is directly converted to electric energy using solar cells and therefore it requires a battery to store electric energy. A...

[1] The Indo-Gangetic basin is characterized by dense fog, haze and smog during the winter season. Here, we show one to one correspondence during the winter season of aerosol optical properties with the location of thermal power plants which are single small spatial entities compared to the big cities. Our results indicate that power plants are the key point source of air pollutants. The detail...

This work presents the results of a project aimed at verifying the applicability of industrial model predictive control (MPC) to thermal Power Plants. The research is motivated by the need to improve the efficiency of power plants so as to cope with the high levels of competition induced by the deregulation of the energy market. A detailed plant simulator, already used for operators training an...

Artificial Intelligence applications in large-scale industry, such as thermal power plants, require the ability to manage uncertainty because current applications are large, complex and influenced by unexpected events and their evolution in time. This paper shows some of the efforts developed at the Instituto de Investigaciones Eléctricas (IIE) to assist operators of thermal power plants in the...

This document sets forth procedures for establishing maximum emissions levels for all fossil-fuelbased thermal power plants with a capacity of 50 or more megawatts of electricity (MWe) that use coal, fuel oil, or natural gas.1 Conventional steam-producing thermal power plants generate electricity through a series of energy conversion stages: fuel is burned in boilers to convert water to high-pr...