Energy Management System for CHP Plants

This paper presents an energy management system for combined heat and power (CHP) plants. The system consists of an energy production plan optimization and energy management controls relying on advanced process control (APC) solution coordinating process control. The energy production plan optimization has an objective of minimizing energy costs in real-time in terms of optimizing purchased and generated energy, fuel consumption and steam generation for steam consumers. The energy management controls is supervised and commanded in real time by the energy production plan optimization system and it executes the commands in order to accomplish the set targets.