Abstract
Operational flexibility of thermal power plants is urgently needed to maintain a balance between supply and demand in the power grid with high penetration of the intermittent renewable energy generation. A new coordinate control strategy was proposed and evaluated based on dynamic simulations in this study to enhance the operational flexibility of thermal power plants. The dynamic simulation model of the control object, a double-reheat coal-fired power plant, was developed and validated. The operational flexibility of the power plant was examined using the original control strategy, and results indicated that the reheat steam is seriously overheated when the power ramp rate increases. A new coordinated control strategy assisted by high-pressure extraction steam throttling was proposed to address the issue of reheat steam overtemperature and further increase the power ramp rate. The proposed control strategy obviously improved the control performance of thermal parameters, especially the reheat steam temperature. The change magnitude of reheat steam temperature is decreased by 3.0 °C. Moreover, the power ramp rate is increased from 1.5% to 4.5% Pe0 min −1 , which extremely enhances the operational flexibility. Furthermore, the proposed control strategy is compared with previous ones from the aspects of the flexibility and efficiency.
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