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Part I Thermal Power Plant Control Process Performance and Energy Audits |
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1 Introduction to Improving Thermal Power Plant Efficiency |
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1.1 Power Plant Introduction |
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1.2 Specific Problems of Fossil Fuel Boiler Combustion |
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1.3 Significance of the Research to Electrical Power Industry |
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1.4 Fouling and Slagging Distribution-Identification Model |
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1.5 Fireball Control and Optimization Model |
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1.6 Slagging Distribution Identification and Combustion Optimization |
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1.7 An Innovative a Method to Optimize Fossil Fuel Power Plant Combustion and Limiting or Even Removing the Tendency of Slagging |
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1.8 Creating a Novel Method to Identify the Distribution of Slagging inside of a Coal-Fired Boiler |
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2 Overview of Energy Conservation of Auxiliary Power in Power Plant Processes |
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2.2.1.1 Preliminary Energy Audit |
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2.2.1.2 Detailed Energy Audit |
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2.2.1.3 Energy Audit Report |
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3 Energy Conservation of In-House Auxiliary Power Equipment in Power Plant Processes |
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3.1 In-House HT Equipment |
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3.1.1.1 Energy Conservation Measures |
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3.1.2 Condensate Extraction Pumps |
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3.1.2.1 Energy Conservation Measures |
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3.1.3.1 Energy Conservation Measures |
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3.1.4.1 Energy Conservation Measures |
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3.1.5.1 Energy Conservation Measures |
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3.1.6.1 Energy Conservation Measures |
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4 Energy Conservation of Common Auxiliary Power Equipment in Power Plant Processes |
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4.2.1 Energy Conservation Measures |
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4.3.4 Energy Conservation |
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4.4 Circulating Water Plant |
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4.4.1 Circulating Water Pumps |
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4.4.1.1 Energy Conservation Measures |
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4.4.2.4 Specific Energy Consumption |
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4.4.2.6 Performance Results of Replacement of GRP Fan Blades by FRP Fan Blades and Optimum Motor |
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4.5 Water Treatment Plant |
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Part II Thermal Power Plant Control Process Modeling |
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5 Physical Laws Applied to a Fossil Fuel Power Plant Process |
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5.2 Heat Conduction, Convection, and Radiation |
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5.5 Turbulent Combustion Gas Flow and Steam Flow |
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6 Modeling and Simulation for Subsystems of a Fossil Fuel Power Plant |
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6.2 Development of a Boiler System Model |
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6.2.4 Superheater and Attemperator Modeling |
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6.3 Development of Boiler System Model Using Simulink |
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6.4 Development of Steam-Temperature Control Using VisSim |
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6.4.1 The Fire Side Process Simulation |
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6.4.2 The Water Side Process Simulation |
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6.4.3 Combining the Fire and Water Side Models |
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6.5 Simulation of Heat-Transfer Processes Using Comsol 4.3 |
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6.5.2 A Simple Model of a Combustion Process with Heat-Transfer Efficiency Influenced by Slagging |
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6.5.3 Creating a GA Model and Validating It Using Simulink |
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6.5.4 Integrating a GA with CFD to Optimize the Heat-Transfer Process in Boiler Combustion |
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6.6 Modeling the Combustion Processes in a Coal-Fired Power Plant Boiler Using ANSYS 14.5 and ANSYS Fluent 14.5 |
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6.7 How to Integrate the Boiler, Turbine, and Generator System |
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6.8 Developing Models to Integrate the Boiler, Turbine, and Generator |
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6.8.1 Saturated Steam in the High-Pressure Section of a Turbine |
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6.8.3 Integration of All the Models |
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6.8.3.1 Connection of Furnace Fuel and Gas Model with Drum Model |
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6.8.3.2 Superheater Steam Models Combined with Drum Models |
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6.8.3.3 Furnace Gas Models Combined with Superheater Steam Models |
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6.8.3.4 Superheater Steam Model Combined with High-Pressure Steam Model of Turbine |
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6.8.3.5 Control Model Integrated with Gas or Steam Process Models |
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Part III Thermal Power Plant Efficiency Improvement Modeling |
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7 Conventional Neural Network-Based Technologies for Improving Fossil Fuel Power Plant Efficiency |
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7.2 NN-Based Power Plant Optimization Technology |
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7.3 Online-Learning Applications |
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7.4 Finite Element Method-Supported Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Technology Applications in Power Plant Boiler Simulation |
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7.5 Optimization Technologies Applied in the Power-Generation Industry |
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7.6 Differential Equation-Based Heat-Transfer Process Simulation for a Coal-Fired Power Plant |
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7.7 Existing Problems for Coal-Fired Power Plants |
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8 Online Learning Integrated with CFD to Control Temperature in Combustion |
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8.2 Boiler-Combustion Process |
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8.3 Integrating Online-Learning Technology with CFD-Based Real-Time Simulation to Control the Combustion Process |
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8.3.1 Online-Learning Technology Method |
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8.3.3 Integrating Online Learning with CFD |
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8.4 Results and Discussion |
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9 Online Learning Integrated with CFD to Identify Slagging and Fouling Distribution |
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9.2 Multiobjective Online Learning |
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9.2.1 The Proposed Multiobjective Learning System |
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9.2.2 Validation of the Proposed Multiobjective Online Learning |
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9.3 Modeling of a Power Plant Boiler-Combustion Process Based on CFD |
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9.3.1 Geometry of the Furnace of Coal-Fired Power Plant |
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9.3.2 Modeling the Combustion Process |
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9.4 Analyzing the Results of the Boiler-Combustion Process Model |
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9.4.1 The Predicted Temperature Field Analysis |
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9.4.2 The Predicted Incident Radiation Analysis |
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9.4.3 The Predicted Gas Particle Trajectory Analysis |
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9.4.4 The Predicted Nitrogen and Carbon Oxide Analysis |
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9.5 Integrate Online Learning with CFD for Identification of Slagging and Fouling Distribution |
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9.5.1 Identifying Slagging and Fouling Distribution |
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9.5.2 Analysis of the Results of the Proposed Methodology |
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10 Integrating Multiobjective Optimization with Computational Fluid Dynamics to Optimize the Boiler-Combustion Process |
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10.2 Principle Mechanism of Combustion Process and Slagging inside a Coal-Fired Power Plant Boiler |
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10.2.1 The Heat-Transfer Process inside a Boiler |
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10.2.2 The Predicted Temperature Field Analysis |
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10.2.3 The Mechanisms of Slagging in the Coal-Fired Boiler |
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10.3 Modeling of Coal-Fired Power Plant Boiler-Combustion Process |
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10.4 NSGA II-Based Multiobjective Optimization Model |
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10.5 Integrating the NSGA II Multiobjective-Optimization Method with CFD to Optimize the Coal-Fired Power Plant Boiler-Combustion Process |
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Part IV Thermal Power Plant Optimization Solution Supported by High-Performance Computing and Cloud Computing |
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11 Internet-Supported Coal-Fired Power Plant Boiler Combustion Optimization Platform |
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11.2 Building a Coal-Fired Power Plant Combustion Optimization System Supported by Online Learning Integrated with CFD in a Local Area Network |
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11.3 Using High-Performance Computer Technology to Build a Coal-Fired Power Plant Combustion Optimization System Supported by Online Learning Integrated with CFD |
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11.4 Using Cloud-Computing Technology to Build a Coal-Fired Power Plant Combustion Optimization System Supported by Online Learning Integrated with CFD |
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11.5 Integrating Online Learning Technology with CFD to Build a Coal-Fired Power Plant Boiler Combustion Optimization Platform Supported by High-Performance, Cloud-Computing, CORBA, and Web Services Technologies |
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11.7 Scope for Future Works |
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References |
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Index |
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