Development of models and computer programmes for short-term forecasting of electricity consumption and electricity output by producers from renewable energy sources
For Ukraine, solid fuel energy, which is capable of using local coal and fuel biomass, is a critical factor in stable heat and power supply and load regulation in the power system. However, the deterioration of TPP and CHP equipment causes significant deviations of furnace processes from the calculated ones. The project involves improving methods for preventing critical deviations in furnace processes, developing methods for low-cost modernisation of TPP and CHP boiler units to increase their efficiency and reliability, methods for reconstructing anthracite boiler units with their conversion to gas coal, and methods for reconstructing gas and oil boilers with their conversion to solid fuel combustion.
Today, thermal power plants account for a large share of the electricity generation balance in Ukraine (about 30%), most of which are 200 MW and 300 MW units. Due to the insufficient number of hydroelectric power plants and pumped storage power plants, thermal power plants are mainly used to maintain the balance between electricity generation and consumption. At the current stage, thermal power generation is being developed by converting coal-fired power units to supercritical initial steam parameters (temperature above 580°C and pressure above 27 MPa). Such units are capable of delivering an efficiency of 45% to 55% or even higher.
