Title: Computerised control and instrumentation of hydrogen cooling system in generating sections of power stations: uninterrupted feeding of hydrogen

Authors: Gyan Ranjan Biswal, Rudra Prakash Maheshwari, M.L. Dewal

Addresses: Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee – 247667, Uttrakhand, India. ' Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee – 247667, Uttrakhand, India. ' Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee – 247667, Uttrakhand, India

Abstract: This paper proposed a |seven-stage standby redundant structured| (SeS²RS) hydrogen cooling system (HCS) for generators cooling in a typical thermal power plant. The proposed system is equally reliable for steam and gas turbine-based generating sections. The system reliability of the proposed SeS²RS model is performed using MATLAB. The entire process control and instrumentation of the system is designed and simulated on Factory Talk ViewSE, a supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) platform by Rockwell automation. This process model is designed as per specifications guided by IEC 61131-3, IEEE C37.1-2007, IEEE 1413-2003, and ISA 100a.

Keywords: hydrogen cooling systems; HCS; human-machine interface; HMI; power plant automation; supervisory control; data acquisition; SCADA; system reliability; Weibull distribution; control and instrumentation; generator cooling; steam turbines; gas turbines; modelling; simulation; process control.

DOI: 10.1504/IJICT.2011.041924

International Journal of Information and Communication Technology, 2011 Vol.3 No.3, pp.195 - 208

Published online: 21 Oct 2014 *

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