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The Application of Cyber Physical System for Thermal Power Plants: Data-Driven Modeling

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  • Yongping Yang

    (National Research Center for Thermal Power Engineering and Technology, North China Electric Power University, Beinong Road 2, Beijing 102206, China)

  • Xiaoen Li

    (National Research Center for Thermal Power Engineering and Technology, North China Electric Power University, Beinong Road 2, Beijing 102206, China)

  • Zhiping Yang

    (National Research Center for Thermal Power Engineering and Technology, North China Electric Power University, Beinong Road 2, Beijing 102206, China)

  • Qing Wei

    (National Research Center for Thermal Power Engineering and Technology, North China Electric Power University, Beinong Road 2, Beijing 102206, China)

  • Ningling Wang

    (National Research Center for Thermal Power Engineering and Technology, North China Electric Power University, Beinong Road 2, Beijing 102206, China)

  • Ligang Wang

    (Industrial Process and Energy Systems Engineering, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Rue de l’Industrie 17, 1951 Sion, Switzerland)

Abstract

Optimal operation of energy systems plays an important role to enhance their lifetime security and efficiency. The determination of optimal operating strategies requires intelligent utilization of massive data accumulated during operation or prediction. The investigation of these data solely without combining physical models may run the risk that the established relationships between inputs and outputs, the models which reproduce the behavior of the considered system/component in a wide range of boundary conditions, are invalid for certain boundary conditions, which never occur in the database employed. Therefore, combining big data with physical models via cyber physical systems (CPS) is of great importance to derive highly-reliable and -accurate models and becomes more and more popular in practical applications. In this paper, we focus on the description of a systematic method to apply CPS to the performance analysis and decision making of thermal power plants. We proposed a general procedure of CPS with both offline and online phases for its application to thermal power plants and discussed the corresponding methods employed to support each sub-procedure. As an example, a data-driven model of turbine island of an existing air-cooling based thermal power plant is established with the proposed procedure and demonstrates its practicality, validity and flexibility. To establish such model, the historical operating data are employed in the cyber layer for modeling and linking each physical component. The decision-making procedure of optimal frequency of air-cooling condenser is also illustrated to show its applicability of online use. It is concluded that the cyber physical system with the data mining technique is effective and promising to facilitate the real-time analysis and control of thermal power plants.

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  • Yongping Yang & Xiaoen Li & Zhiping Yang & Qing Wei & Ningling Wang & Ligang Wang, 2018. "The Application of Cyber Physical System for Thermal Power Plants: Data-Driven Modeling," Energies, MDPI, vol. 11(4), pages 1-16, March.
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