Abstract
The paper presents a thermodynamic optimization of supercritical coal
fired power plant. The aim of the study was to optimize part of the
thermal cycle consisted of high-pressure turbine and two chosen
highpressure feed water heaters. Calculations were carried out using
IPSEpro software combined with MATLAB, where thermal efficiency and gross
power generation efficiency were chosen as objective functions. It was
shown that the optimization with newly developed framework is sufficiently
precise and its main advantage is the reduction of computation time on
comparison to the classical method. The calculations have shown the
tendency of the increase in efficiency, with the rise of a number of
function variables.
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