'Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)'
Doi
Abstract
With the integration of intermittent energy sources in the power system, the main focus of
thermal power plant design is to optimize the conventional system by improving efficiency and flexibility
of power generation in the start-up and base-load procedures. This paper focuses on the behavior of thermal
power generation with respect to load variations, fuel variations, weather conditions and internal dynamics
of the system to aid in energy planning and the optimization of power system. Dynamic modeling and
subsequent simulation is to make improvements. Therefore, to model the system, this research study has
used a dynamic modeling and a simulation framework (OpenModelica based on modelica language) which
is an object-oriented and equation-based language. This framework allows a non-causal modeling and a
flexible reuse of the models since data-flow direction is not predefined like other state of the art simulating
tools i.e. MATLAB. The proposed model analyses the trend of electrical power generation of KOT ADDU
thermal power plant to predict the future demand of electrical power. The achieved results show more than
90% accuracy of the proposed model in the transient operation such as start-up and base load procedure
