System and method for operating a turbine-powered electrical generating plant in a sequential mode
United States Patent i191 Ronnen 1 Apr. 15, 1975 [75] Inventor: Uri G. Ronnen, Monroeville, Pa.  
 [73] Assignee: Westinghouse Electric Corporation,  
 Pittsburgh, Pa.  
 [22] Filed: June 10, 1974 [21] Appl. No.: 478,815  
 Related U.S. Application Data [63] Continuation of Ser. No. 306,979, Nov. 15, 1972,  
 abandoned.  
 [52] U.S. Cl. 290/40; 235/l5l.2l; 444/1; 60/646 [51] Int. Cl...... G06j 1/00; G06f l5/O6; G06f 15/56 [58] Field of Search 235/l5l.2l, 151.34, 151.3, 235/151; 4l5/l,l3l4, 17; 60/646; 290/40 A40 C, 40 F; 444/1; 340/1725 OTHER PUBLICATIONS Application of the Prodac 50 System to Direct Digital Control; .1. C. Belz, G. J. Kirk &amp; P. S. Radcliffe, IEEE Int]. Conv. Rec. Part 3, 1965; pp. 102-122. Monitoring and Automatic Control in Steam Power Stations by Process Computer; E. Doetsch &amp; G. Hirschberg, Siemens Review XXXV(1968), No. 12; pp. 671-576.  
 Primary Examiner-Eugene G. Botz Assistant Examiner-Edward J Wise Attorney, Agent, or Firml-l. W. Patterson [5 7 ABSTRACT A system and method for operating a turbine power plant wherein a feedforward steam flow demand signal governs the partial-arc or sequential operation of the steam-turbine inlet valves, is disclosed. Each valve control group is governed sequentially according to the individual valve percentage of total steam flow that such valve is required to admit. The total steam flow demand signal is dynamically calculated in accordance with a demand percentage of total flow capacity of the unit, the steam throttle pressure, the number of nozzles associated with each valve, and the effect of impulse chamber pressure.  
 The steam inlet valves control the steam flow in the sequential mode throughout the range of steam flow demand by incrementally varying the valve lift positions within a predetermined operating range of steam flow. The valves of one group are fully open or closed only when such position permits the steam flow demand signal to control the sequentially adjacent valve group within the predetermined operating range. The extent to which the flow demand signal varies beyond the operating range of one valve group and below the predetermined operating range of the sequentially adjacent group determines the simultaneous direction of valve travel of adjacent valve groups, and which of the adjacent valve groups are controlling in the predetermined operating range. This range is varied with respect to the actual valve position in accordance with the total flow demand signal and the predetermined operating range is varied depending on the direction of steam flow demand change.  
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