Techno-Economic Evaluation Of Cleaner Coal Fired Plant Operability: Project Profile
Abstract:
A three year research programme is being undertaken to develop ways of calculating the benefit of plant flexibility as a function of operating regime. This information will be used to evaluate methods for improving plant designs to ensure the optimum trade-off between flexibility and other crucial plant parameters such as capital cost, efficiency and reliability. The main aims of the programme are:
Electricity markets throughout the world are being reformed and deregulated. One result of this is that power stations are required to operate more flexibly, with more starts and stops and more rapid variations in output. As a result there is considerable commercial pressure being put on manufacturers to provide plant that can be operated flexibly, and on generating companies to buy such plant. However, improving the operational flexibility of a plant almost invariably involves some additional expense, either in terms of increased capital costs or a reduction in efficiency or reliability
Powergen UK plc and the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) are working together to explore ways in which the costs of plant inflexibility can be quantified. Powergen is contributing its expertise and experience of operating in a variety of liberalised power markets world-wide, whilst UMIST is one of the world's leading centres for the economic optimisation of complex industrial processes.
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2001
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Department of Trade and Industry
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Techno-Economic Evaluation of Cleaner Coal Fired Plant Operability
