Issues of an optimization of measurements location in redundant measurements systems of an energy conversion process – A case study
Marcin Szega
Energy, 2018, vol. 165, issue PA, 1034-1047
Abstract:
The measurements system of an energy conversion process is treated as a redundant if it fulfills the conditions for the application of the advanced data validation and reconciliation. At the design stage of such a system, the problem of the number of redundant measurements as well as their location appears from the point of view of the optimization method. In this case, the solved superior optimization problem is the problem of the combinatorial optimization. These tasks are difficult from a computational point of view. For contemporary computers, this may become impossible for larger-scale tasks because the computing time of the corresponding algorithm is an exponential function from the problem dimension to the solution. Example calculations for the redundant measurement system of a selected gas-and-steam CHP unit have been carried out. As an objective function of the combinatorial optimization task, the relative uncertainty of the energy utilization factor in the CHP unit was assumed. To evaluate the redundant measurements system as a whole the relative information entropy – Kullback-Leibler divergence has been accepted. The optimization calculations for all elements of space of states, i.e. for all possible location configurations of the redundant measurements in the thermal system of CHP unit have been performed. Discussion of received results due to the possibility of limiting the dimensionality of the solved optimization combinatorial task and consequently the significant reduction of the numerical calculation time has been carried out. Analyses of a suitability of proposed methods for limiting the number of sets of redundant measurements configurations in the optimization calculations have been performed.
Keywords: Advanced data validation and reconciliation; Gas-and-steam CHP unit; Optimization of redundant measurements location (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2018.09.142
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