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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 14, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 21, 2016
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Sanyaswara Rao Ganti, Bangalore, IN;
Michael James O'Connor, Simpsonville, SC (US);
Christopher Joseph Vreeman, Greenville, SC (US);
Awadesh Kumar Tiwari, Bangalore, IN;
Venkata Jogi Janaki Suresh Mandapaka, Bangalore, IN;
Gaurav Nair, Bengaluru, IN;
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A system including a power plant having thermal generating units that operate according to multiple possible operating modes, which are differentiated by a unique operational or maintenance schedule. The system further includes a hardware processor and machine readable storage medium on which is stored instructions that cause the hardware processor to execute a process related to optimizing the operational or maintenance schedule during a selected operating period. The process may include: receiving the selected operating period; selecting competing operating modes for the power plant during the selected operating period according to a selection criteria; simulating the operation of the power plant during the selected operating period for each of the competing operating modes and deriving simulation results therefrom; evaluating each of the simulation results pursuant to a cost function and, based thereupon, designating at least one of the competing operating modes as an optimized operating mode.