Practical dynamic matrix control for thermal power plant coordinated control

Abstract

This paper proposes three practical strategies for the coordinated control (CC) of a thermal power plant using dynamic matrix control (DMC) that can be directly applied to industrial power plants. The three strategies are the replacement of conventional CC using DMC, the inclusion of disturbance variables, and a supplementary reference correction of the conventional CC. The performance during wide range operation of the three DMC-CCs is compared and discussed with the simulation results of a large-scale power plant model.