For the participation of the steam power plants in regulating the network frequency, boilers and turbines should be co-ordinately controlled in addition to the base load productions. Lack of coordinated control over boiler-turbine may lead to instability; oscillation in producing power and boiler parameters; reduction in the reliability of the unit; and inflicting thermodynamic tension on devic...

Pelton wheel is the only hydraulic turbine of the impulse type in common use, is named after an American engineer Laster A Pelton, who contributed much to its development around the year 1880. Therefore this machine is known as Pelton turbine or Pelton wheel. It is an efficient machine particularly suited to high heads, many modifications is being suggested up to now the major modification was ...

he implementation of downstream mitigation for fish passage at hydropower facilities has three distinct goals: to transport fish downstream; to prevent fish from entrainment in turbine intakes; and to move fish, in a timely and safe manner, through a reservoir.1 A range of mitigation methods for downstream passage and for prevention of turbine entrainment exist, and some have been applied with ...

Abstract The parameters such as oil density and bulk elastic modulus of hydraulic in steam turbine electro-hydraulic servo system vary with ambient temperature, pressure, other factors, there are unmodeled dynamics the system, so obtaining a satisfactory following effect is challenging task for servo(EHS) system. According to principle force balance flow continuity, mathematical model bilateral...

Considering generator rotor and valve by external disturbances for turbine regulating system, the nonlinear large disturbance attenuation controller and parameter updating law of turbine speed governor system are designed using backstepping method. The controller not only considers transmission line parameter uncertainty, and has attenuated the influences of large external disturbances on syste...

In steam turbine control and actuation, the valve plays a key role in operability reliability. The electrohydraulic regulating system for valve, usually called servomotor, needs to be reliable high performing under nonlinear excitation interference actual conditions. Currently, servo technology is widely used servomotors. Although this has good performance, it still some technical defects, such...

ABSTRACTRenewable Energy Sources (RES) are well – defined as energy sources, that are in abundance within the natural surroundings and are much inexhaustible. In addition, hydroelectricity (HE) is a vital part of world renewable energy supply and hydropower remains a bulk source of electricity generation because of its environmental friendliness in nature. Modeling is the analysis of the ...