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Development Of A Dynamic Model And Control System For Load-Following Studies Of Supercritical Pulverized Coal Power Plants, Parikshit Sarda, Elijah Hedrick, Katherine Reynolds, Debangsu Bhattacharyya, National Energy Technology Laboratory

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Traditional energy production plants are increasingly forced to cycle their load and operate under low-load conditions in response to growth in intermittent renewable generation. A plant-wide dynamic model of a supercritical pulverized coal (SCPC) power plant has been developed in the Aspen Plus Dynamics® (APD) software environment and the impact of advanced control strategies on the transient responses of the key variables to load-following operation and disturbances can be studied. Models of various key unit operations, such as the steam turbine, are developed in Aspen Custom Modeler® (ACM) and integrated in the APD environment. A coordinated control system (CCS) is …