System for Optimization of Thermal Power Plant Blocks Operation over 300 MW capacity

The designed and installed remote distributed monitoring and control systems (Digital Control Systems-DCS) of the thermal power plant (TEPP) blocks, which were designed by the Institute Mihajlo Pupin, which also supplied and commissioned the necessary electronic equipment, enable automatic regulation and control of the block and computer archiving of the measured parameters including the possibility of making necessary operational analyses. Increasingly frequent and more pronounced demands of the electric power market to ensure reliable supply of high quality electric power and to increase reliability, effectiveness, and cost-effectiveness in the operation of TEPP blocks impose and justify the need for the necessary research and further development of DCS systems, and/or for extension of the functions or upgrading of the DCS systems with adequate software and hardware, which would enable on-line optimization of operation of DCS system-controlled TEPP blocks. With this multidisciplinary project, through three subprojects, the research of the factors optimization in operation of the equipment of TEPP blocks will be conducted and a complex system of regulation and control of parameters of operation of the block, which have impact on energy efficiency of the TEPP block, will be developed. The developed hardware and software system will be implemented as a higher level above the DCS system, tested, and verified in the operation of the blocks of 350 MW of power in TEPP Kostolac-B.