Combined-Cycle Plant Simulation Toolbox for Power Plant Simulator.

With the availability of powerful and high performance processors, advanced numerical methods, and flexible and capable software, there is a great opportunity to develop high performance simulators for analysis of and training on complex systems. Power plants are one group of complex systems with serious impacts on the economy and operations of industries. This paper addresses the development of a set of system component simulation modules combined with a control structure in a common software framework for a typical combined-cycle power plant. The simulation toolbox was designed for educational purposes using SIMULINK ® based on Object Oriented Programming (OOP) and the C programming language. The simulation toolbox will be utilized to assess the long-time behavior of control systems and the overall plant performance following system disturbances. The developed simulation tool is able to use all MATLAB® toolboxes for research and education studies. (Keywords: gas power plant, combined-cycle power plant, modeling and simulation, MATLAB®