Thermal power plants: Modeling, control, and efficiency improvement

Thermal Power Plants: Modeling, Control, and Efficiency Improvement

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 1-303

  Liu, Xingrang ^a   Bansal, Ramesh ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C++ (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); CLOUD COMPUTING; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; EFFICIENCY; FOSSIL FUEL POWER PLANTS; FOSSIL FUELS; INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH; MATLAB; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; STEELMAKING; THERMOELECTRIC POWER PLANTS;

COMPLEX INDUSTRIES; EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENT; EFFICIENCY OPTIMIZATION; ELECTRICAL POWER ENGINEERING; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; INDUSTRY AUTOMATION; SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHES; THERMAL POWER PLANTS;

PROCESS CONTROL;

EID: 85020736720     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1201/9781315371467     Document Type: Book

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