Clustering-based performance optimization of the boiler-turbine system

IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 651-658

  Kusiak, Andrew ^a   Song, Zhe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Boiler turbine system; Clustering; Data mining; Performance optimization

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; DATA MINING; GAS TURBINES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION;

BOILER-TURBINE SYSTEM; UNIT HEAT RATE;

BOILERS;

EID: 44349159091     PISSN: 08858969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEC.2007.914183     Document Type: Article

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