This paper investigates the applicability of information theory to predicting operator performance in diagnosis tasks at nuclear power plants (NPPs). Some general descriptions about diagnosis tasks in a main control room (MCR) are provided and information theory conventionally used in the studies of human information processing is briefly reviewed. Then, as an alternative to classical informati...

Performance evaluation is used to gain an understanding of how to make the best use of scarce resources. Storage, memory, processing, and communications bandwidth are all relatively plentiful and inexpensive. What is the next frontier for communications networks and performance evaluation? I will argue that it is power management to achieve cost-effective operation. In the past few years, entir...

The solar chimney power plant (SCPP) generates updraft wind through the green house effect. In this paper, the performances of two SCPP styles, that is, the conventional solar chimney power plant (CSCPP) and the sloped solar chimney power plant (SSCPP), are compared through a numerical simulation. A simplified Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) model is built to predict the performances of the ...

This paper describes optimal reactive power control of a doubly fed induction generator (DFIG), which is widely used in a distributed generating plant. Although its structure is similar to that of induction motors, its reactive power control is more complicated. In this paper, steady-state power transfer equations are derived and developed for a doubly fed structure of the induction generators....

Abstract– The present research deals with the opportunities for the availability predictive modeling of a thermal plant using the Markov process and probabilistic approach. These opportunities will be identified by evaluation of a power generation system of a thermal power plant. This feasibility study covers two areas: development of a predictive model and evaluation of performance with the he...

The growing demand for wind power has resulted in a market that naturally favors development of new wind farms over improvement of their performance. A chain of opportunities for performance improvement of any wind energy project parallels the supply chain activities. Raising energy and transportation costs are a complicating factor of the performance improvement projects. One of the weakest po...

This paper describes optimal reactive power control of a doubly fed induction generator (DFIG), which is widely used in a distributed generating plant. Although its structure is similar to that of an induction motor, its reactive power control is more complicated. In this paper, steady-state power transfer equations are derived and developed for a doubly fed structure of the induction generator...

This paper presents a proposed three-Dimensional (3D) computational electrochemical simulation model for simulation and evaluation performance of Polymer Electrolyte Membrane (PEM) fuel cell. The proposed model is used to predict the output voltage, efficiency, hydrogen supply and study the transient response of PEM power plant when subjected to variable load connected to it. Additionally, the ...