Modeling of coal consumption rate based on wavelet neural network

In this paper,two wavelet neural network(WNN)frames which depend on Morlet wavelet function and Gaussian wavelet function were established.In order to improve the efficiency of model training,the momentum term was applied to modify the weights and thresholds,and the output of the network was summed up by function transformation of output layer nodes.When the Gaussian Wavelet Neural Networks(GWNN)and Morlet Wavelet Neural Networks(MWNN)were applied to coal consumption rate(CCR)estimation in a thermal power plant,the results confirmed their potency in function approximation.In addition,the influence of learning rate on the models was also discussed through the orthogonal experiment.

Energy conservation in China's coal-fired power industry by installing advanced units and organized phasing out backward production

Coal-fired power is the main power source and the biggest contributor to energy conservation in the past several decades in China.It is generally believed that advanced technology should be counted on for energy conservation.However,a review of the decline in the national average net coal consumption rate(NCCR)of China's coal-fired power industry along with its development over the past few decades indicates that the upgradation of the national unit capacity structure(including installing advanced production and phasing out backward production)plays a more important role.A quantitative study on the effect of the unit capacity structure upgradation on the decline in the national average NCCR suggests that phasing out backward production is the leading factor for the decline in the NCCR in the past decade,followed by the new installation,whose sum contributes to approximately 80%of the decline in the national average NCCR.The new installation has an effective affecting period of about 8 years,during which it would gradually decline from a relatively high value.Since the effect of phasing out backward production may remain at a certain degree given a continual action of phasing out backward capacity,it is suggested that the organized action of phasing out backward production should be insisted on.