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Combined Thermal and Power Energy Management Optimization
Date
1991-06Metadata
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The savings associated with energy
management optimization of cogeneration
facilities are large, and readily justify the
hardware and software development costs
required for their implementation.
Energy Management Systems (EMS),
continuously control plant energy flows,
insure the simultaneous satisfaction of
process heat and power requirements, energy
supply contractual commitments and protect
plant personnel and equipment. Differences in
the thermal performance characteristics of the
plant's power generation, heat recovery, and
process boiler equipment, in addition to the
use of various fuels, and contractual
commitments for power and/or process steam,
provide a wide range of considerations which
must be factored into the overall energy
management and its optimization. Additional
EMS considerations involve unit commitment,
and interfacing of closed loop energy
management control with plant process
controls.
The availability of low cost, reliable
microprocessor based plant control, monitoring
powerful optimization software techniques
permits the practical application of advanced
energy management concepts to these
cogeneration applications.
This paper develops an optimization
approach to this problem, applying the
concepts to applications. A discussion of some
of the system aspects to be considered and
their implementation, is also presented.
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Citation
Ahner, D. J.; Priestley, R. R. (1991). Combined Thermal and Power Energy Management Optimization. Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.eslwin.tamu.edu). Available electronically from https : / /hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /92223.