The present work focuses on the seasonal evaluation of suspended particulate matter (SPM) produced by Badarpur thermal power station (BTPS) within a radius of 5 km of its source. The study was carried out using both monitoring and modeling; experimental measurements were obtained from a monitoring network in and around the power station. Numerical simulations were carried out employing a Gaussi...

A power plant simulation tool (‘PowerSim’) has been developed with 10 years experience from the development of a plant simulator for efficient modeling of a power plant. PowerSim is the first developed tool in Korea for plant simulation with various plant component models, instructor station function and the Graphic Model Builder (GMB). PowerSim is composed of a graphic editor using general pur...

After removing annual variability, power spectral analyses of local atmospheric temperature from hundreds of stations and ice core records have been carried out from time scales of 10 2 to 106 yr. A clear sequence of power-law behaviors is found as follows: (1) from 40 ka to 1 Ma a flat spectrum is observed; (2) from 2 ka to 40 ka the spectrum is proportional to f 2 where f is the frequency; an...

Artificial intelligence is the science of automating intelligent behaviours currently achievable by humans. Power system has grown tremendously over a few decades. As the size and complexity of the power system consisting of generators, transmission lines, power transformers, distribution transformers etc. increases the possibility of inviting faults. The acquisition of data, the processing of ...

The use of concentrated solar thermal energy for the production of electricity has been achieved commercially with the generation of steam in trough or tower concentrating systems. More recently, solar power stations such as the AndaSol 1 have also included 1,010 MW·h of heat storage, enough to run the turbine for about 7.5 hours at full-load. The thermal storage in the AnderSol 1 solar power s...

To evaluate the concentration of naturally occurring radioactive material particularly, uranium concentration in fly ash, samples were collected from Guru Nanak Dev Thermal Plant, Bathinda, Punjab, India and Suratgarh Super Thermal Power Station, Suratgarh, Rajasthan, India during 2010 to 2012. Samples were processed using ICP-MS (Inductively coupled plasma – mass spectrometry) with multi-eleme...