Systemic issues of the power plants APCS development technology and performance paradigm

Abstract

Current development of power engineering in Russia is characterized by deployment of power units with distributed multifunctional automatic process control systems (APCS) based on software and hardware systems (I&C) complex with hierarchical network structure. I&C is the backbone of this structure and APCS creates common information and technological environment of the power unit. Key issues of the multifunctional APCS are associated with lack of the technical efficiency of the I&C, usage of unproven control algorithms and immaturity of the system development technology. Overcoming the identified key issues in the development of the technology of creating I&C and APCS as a whole is associated with the formation of special functionality developed by I&C, their capabilities to use mathematical models of control objects and processes in real time (RT), assessing the information properties of controlled and uncontrolled parameters and generated signals. Performance paradigm (price/quality) of the APCS which answers on these questions can be received only after putting system in the operation and caring additional work on the assessment and optimization of information-functional and technical structures of APCS. The report discusses some new results in solving the indicated issues as part of improving the technology of modern APCS and prospects for their development as the main scientific direction of the Department of Automatic control Systems of ISPU.