Research Article

Modelling and Output Power Estimation of a Combined Gas Plant and a Combined Cycle Plant Using an Artificial Neural Network Approach

Table 1

Overview of AI-based modelling tools on assorted power plants.

Types of plantPlants’ decision parametersAI-based modelling toolsResponsesRemarks on deficiencyFindingsReferences

Combined cycle power plantAmbient temperature, vacuum, ambient pressure, relative humidityMachine learning approaches (MLAs)CCPP hourly electric output power predictionVarious MLAs such as the K-nearest neighbours (KNN), gradient-boosted regression rate (GBRT), linear regression (LR), artificial neural networks (ANN), and deep neural networks (DNN), estimate the electric power output with significant outcomesResults show that the state-of-the-art outperformance of GBRT in terms of optimum electric output power solutions is depictedSiddiqui et al. [15]
Combined cycle power plantAmbient temperature, vacuum, ambient pressure, relative humidityMachine learning approaches (MLAs)Power plant’s electrical power outputMLPRM was not accosted in predicting the power output of the plantResults show that the bagging REP tree method is the most suitable among the MLAsTüfekci [20]
Combined cycle power plantAmbient temperature, vacuum, ambient pressure, relative humidityHybrid machine learning approachesPower plant’s electrical power output with less wasteButterfly optimisation algorithm (BOA) combined with a Phasmatodea population evolution (PPE) algorithm (BOAPPE), jointly with the support vector machine (SVM) predicted accurately the power output of CCCPResults show that the BOAPPE strategy improved the convergence speed and avoided trapping into local optimum outcomesWang et al. [51]
Combined cycle gas turbine power plantAmbient temperature, vacuum, ambient pressure, relative humidityANN-electrostatic discharge algorithm (EDA): ANN-EDAPower plant’s electrical output power predictionThe multilayer perceptron regression method (MLPRM) was not adopted in the modelling of their plantThe reliability of prediction of power electricity by SDA-ANN establishedZhao and Kok Foong [54]
Combined cycle gas turbine power plantInlet flue temperature, absorber column operating pressure, amount of exhaust gas recycled, and amine concentrationTaguchi’s design of the experimentOptimisation of postcombustion CO2 captureMonoethanolamine solvent, employed via Taguchi’s design experimental method, mitigated the energy demands of the systemThe statistical optimisation concept of the postcombustion capturing of CO2 is demonstratedAlexanda Petrovic and Masoudi Soltani [56]
Natural gas-fired combined cycle power plantFlue gas emission dataset between 2011 and 2015Hybrid machine learning methodPower plant’s NOx emission predictionANFISGA model predicted accurately the NOx emissions at the minimum errorResults show that the impact of the genetic algorithm (GA) on ANFIS performance towards optimum solutionsDirik [57]
Gas turbine combined cycle power plantDynamic optimal set point for the regularisation levelHybrid machine learning approachesPower plant’s performance predictionA fuzzy logic model (FL) coupled with a genetic algorithm (GA) predictive supervisory controller predicted accurately the performance of the power plantResults show that the hybrid fuzzy GA predictive controller captures the system’s nonlinearities with optimum performance solutionsSaez et al. [58]
Combined cycle power plant boilerInput data are selected via a sensitivity analysis approachMachine learning approaches (MLAs)CCPP boiler performanceA cluster number of optimum Taguchi–Sugeno fuzzy logic (FL) models, derived accurately the performance of the CCPPResults show the economic optimisation of the plant’s performance with the nonlinear FL model and the superheated steam pressure via the linear model FLSáez and Zuñiga [59]