A Study on Additional Electric Energy Accommodation of Three Gorges Hydropower Station

Considering the additional electric energy generated after the full operation of the underground hydropower station, the electric energy accommodation of the Three Gorges Project (TGP) is reviewed. It is focused on the additional electricity accommodation, based on the research at the early stage. The electric energy accommodation solutions are recommended as that, based on the cost-benefit analysis of the power distribution area, the additional electric energy of the Three Gorges should be given priority to meet the needs at the supply end of Hubei and Chongqing. The results of this research has a reference value on the implementation of the Three Gorges electric power accommodation, after the further optimization of the transmission curves in both wet and dry seasons.

Power Generation Systems Using Continuous Blowdown Waste Heat from Drum Boilers Driving an Organic Rankine Cycle

提出了一种利用汽包锅炉排污系统余热的有机朗肯循环发电系统,有机工质回收扩容器疏水的热量,并通过气轮机发电。建立了系统的热力性能分析模型,并对R227ea、RC318、R236ea、R245fa、R245ca、R123和R113等7种工质的热力性能进行了优化。结果表明,临界温度高的工质,其o2循环的最佳主气温度（蒸发温度）反而低；亚临界循环采用干流体时,过热不利于余热的利用；超临界循环可以改善热源与工质间的温度匹配,有利于增大系统输出功,但是其运行压力高、大比热区的传热恶化等问题是实际运行和设计需要考虑的因素；R236ea的热力性能优于其余6种工质。

Optimization and Innovation of Engineering Design for Ninghai Power Plant

In order to build a power plant with high efficiency,low investment and zero warm water discharge,a series of innovations are applied to the two 1 000-MW units of Ninghai Power Plant.The new technologies include the closed-circuit system for seawater cooling tower with a spraying area of 13 000 m2,the main buildings with reinforced concrete structure,the plasma ignition system for tower boiler and the fieldbus control system.Optimization measures are taken in some aspects,such as the open point of the turbine overload valves,the boiler dimensions,the technical process,the electric system,the building structures and the layout of the power plant.The units have been running for more than half a year with the thermal efficiency as high as 45.79% and without warm water discharged,which indicates that all the systems are safe and steady and the original purpose of optimization has been realized.

Mechanisms involved in triggering debris flows,within a cohesive gravel soil mass on a slope:a case in SW China

The triggering mechanisms of debris flows were explored in the field using artificial rainfall experiments in two gullies, Dawazi Gully and Aizi Gully, in Yunnan and Sichuan Provinces, China,respectively. The soils at both sites are bare, loose and cohesive gravel-dominated. The results of a direct shear test, rheological test and back-analysis using soil mass stability calculations indicate that the mechanisms responsible for triggering debris flows involved the decreases in static and dynamic resistance of the soil. The triggering processes can be divided into 7 stages: rainfall infiltration, generation of excess runoff, high pore water pressure, surface erosion, soil creep, soil slipping, debris flow triggering and debris flow increment. In addition, two critical steps are evident:(i) During the process of the soil mass changing from a static to a mobile state, its cohesion decreased sharply(e.g., the cohesion of the soil mass in Dawazi Gully decreased from 0.520 to0.090 k Pa, a decrease of 83%). This would have reduced the soil strength and the kinetic energy during slipping, eventually triggered the debris flow.(ii) When the soil mass began to slip, the velocity and the volume increment of the debris flow fluctuated as a result of the interaction of soil resistance and the sliding force. The displaced soil mass from the source area of the slope resulted in the deposition of a volume of soil more than 7-8 times greater than that in the source area.

Study on Capability of Power Transmission from West to East in China Southern Power Grid

The uneven distribution of economic development and energy resources in the Southern Power Grid, yet with stronger complementary superiority has determined the necessity to actively push forward power transmission from west to east in the Southern Power Grid and realize optimal disposition in even greater scope. To further promote transmission capability and operational security from west to east, measures including power sources disposition, unit starting schemes, power grid configuration, DC modulation and application of new transmission technologies are analyzed in this paper.

Application of natural ventilation of residential buildings in hot-humid regions

The current ventilation condition of the hot and humid regions was analyzed through on-site investigation. It is found that residents in this region expect to improve indoor thermal environment through natural ventilation as much as possible. Then,it comes to a conclusion by the field test that natural ventilation has certain practical effect on improving indoor thermal environment. CFD simulation software is employed to verify the test result. Based on PMV modified model,and according to norms,geography and climate combined with the measured and simulated results,the application of the time and effectiveness of natural ventilation in hot and humid region were analyzed,to some extent,providing a basis for reducing the air-conditioner's runtime with natural ventilation.

Data-driven Inverter-based Volt/VAr Control for Partially Observable Distribution Networks

For active distribution networks(ADNs)integrated with massive inverter-based energy resources,it is impractical to maintain the accurate model and deploy measurements at all nodes due to the large-scale of ADNs.Thus,current models of ADNs usually involve significant errors or even unknown occurances.Moreover,ADNs are usually partially observable since only a few measurements are available at pilot nodes or nodes with significant users.To provide a practical Volt/Var control(VVC)strategy for such networks,a data-driven VVC method is proposed in this paper.First,the system response policy,approximating the relationship between the control variables and states of monitoring nodes,is estimated by a recursive regression closed-form solution.Then,based on real-time measurements and the newly updated system response policy,a VVC strategy with convergence guarantee is realized.Since the recursive regression solution is embedded in the control stage,a data-driven closedloop VVC framework is established.The effectiveness of the proposed method is validated in an unbalanced distribution system considering nonlinear loads,where not only the rapid and self-adaptive voltage regulation is realized,but also systemwide optimization is achieved.

A calculation model to assess the crack propagation length of rock block in clastic flow

The primary cracks in the rock block undergo series of steps and finally disintegrate,during this procession,the radius affects the impact force of rock block in clastic flow.Therefore,it is essential to figure out the evolution mechanism of crack propagation for the design of engineering protection.In this study,based on fracture mechanics and Hertz contact theory,collision happened between rock block and slope surface is assumed to be elastic contact.Based on the above assumption,the critical impact force of crack propagation is obtained,and a model used to calculate the crack propagation length in a single collision is established.Besides,a rock fall site in Jiuzhai Valley was used to verify the calculation model.According to the model,several key factors were identified to influence crack propagation length including falling height,initial equivalent radius,and recovery coefficient of slope surface.Moreover,as a result of the orthogonal experiment,the influence of those factors on the crack propagation length was ranked,normal recovery coefficient>initial radius>initial falling height.In addition,the kinetic energy of the rock block in the compression stage is transformed into elastic deformation energy,angular kinetic energy,and dissipated energy of crack propagation.Due to the increase of collisions,the kinetic energy is gradually transformed into angular kinetic energy,and the dissipated energy of crack propagation weights is reduced.In conclusion,the crack propagation in rock block is a complicated progress,which is affected by multiple factors,especially falling height,initial equivalent radius,and recovery coefficient of slope surface.Our study may provide guidance for the design of protective structure of clastic flows.

Delay-dependent Wide-area Damping Controller Synthesis Approach Using Jensen’s Inequality and Evolution Algorithm

A time-delay-dependent wide-area damping controller synthesis approach,based on Jensen’s integral inequality and evolution algorithm,is developed to suppress the adverse effect of time delay on the supplemental control of high-voltage direct current(DC)transmission systems.Initially,the state-space model of hybrid AC/DC systems with time delay is derived and the delay-dependent criteria for the stability of the closed-loop system are provided based on Jensen’s integral inequality.Subsequently,initial solutions are randomly generated to overcome the difficulty of solving the nonlinear matrix inequality.Finally,the time-delay stability upper bound of the controller is optimized using the differential evolution algorithm.In comparison to popular time-delay stable controller design methods,such as the free-weighting-matrix approach,the proposed method based on output feedback realization requires fewer decision variables and is more suitable for large-scale hybrid AC/DC systems.Three examples are introduced to verify the effectiveness of the proposed method.

Implications of Stahl's Theorems to Holomorphic Embedding Part II: Numerical Convergence

What has become known as Stahl's Theorem in power-engineering circles has been used to justify a convergence guarantee of the Holomorphic Embedding Method(HEM)as it applies to the power-flow problem.In this,the second part of a two-part paper,we examine implications to numerical convergence of the HEM and the numerical properties of a Pade approximant algorithm.We show that even if the point of interest is within the convergence domain,numerical convergence of the sequence of Pade approximants computed with finite precision is not guaranteed.We propose a convergence factor equation that can be used to both estimate the convergence rate and the capacity of the branch cut.We also show that the study of convergence properties of the Pade approximant is the study of the location of the branch-points of the function,which in turn dictate branch-cut topology and capacity and,therefore,convergence rate.