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Predictive modeling of a subcritical pulverized-coal power plant for optimization: Parameter estimation, validation, and application

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  • Eslick, John C.
  • Zamarripa, Miguel A.
  • Ma, Jinliang
  • Wang, Maojian
  • Bhattacharya, Indrajit
  • Rychener, Brian
  • Pinkston, Philip
  • Bhattacharyya, Debangsu
  • Zitney, Stephen E.
  • Burgard, Anthony P.
  • Miller, David C.

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As renewable power generation deployment increases, fossil fuel plants are increasingly required to operate more flexibly. Many coal-fired power plants were originally designed to operate at base load and do not operate optimally at partial load. Predictive first-principles plant-wide models can be employed to identify opportunities for flexibility improvements and diagnose low-load operating issues. This paper describes the application of the Institute for the Design of Advanced Energy Systems Integrated Platform (IDAES) to model and optimize flexible power plant operations. The key benefits of using IDAES are that it provides an open-source, fully equation-oriented modeling framework for efficient modular model construction, reuse, and customization, together with a mathematical optimization framework leveraging powerful, state-of-the-art solvers. The process systems engineering workflow from predictive process simulation to parameter estimation, model validation, and plant optimization is applicable to a variety of existing and next-generation energy systems as well as other chemical and environmental processes. To demonstrate this capability, a physics-based, steady-state model was developed to improve full- and part-load performance of the Escalante Generating Station, a 245 MWe (net) subcritical pulverized coal-fired power plant owned and operated by Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association. Specifically, sixty-nine model parameters were simultaneously estimated from several months of operating data enabling prediction of flow rates, temperatures, pressures, and steam quality throughout the plant. The validated model was leveraged by Escalante to reduce the minimum operating load from 90 MW to 50 MW by diagnosing a low-load water-hammer issue, enabling coal usage and emissions reductions during periods of low power demand. Additionally, opportunities for heat rate reduction (i.e., efficiency improvement) through a steeper sliding-pressure approach to load-following and optimization of other boiler operating variables were also identified and quantified. For example, a potential efficiency improvement of 0.7 percentage points was observed at half-load operation.

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  • Eslick, John C. & Zamarripa, Miguel A. & Ma, Jinliang & Wang, Maojian & Bhattacharya, Indrajit & Rychener, Brian & Pinkston, Philip & Bhattacharyya, Debangsu & Zitney, Stephen E. & Burgard, Anthony P., 2022. "Predictive modeling of a subcritical pulverized-coal power plant for optimization: Parameter estimation, validation, and application," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 319(C).
  • Handle: RePEc:eee:appene:v:319:y:2022:i:c:s0306261922005906
    DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2022.119226
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