Abstract
The power production planning problem has been deeply investigated.
Maintenance management and load allocation problems
have been assumed as crucial aspects for achieving maximum plant
profitability. Modeling of life consumption of hot section components
has been considered as one of the key feature necessary to
simulate the plant behaviour.
The approach takes market scenarios, as well as actual status
and performance of plant components into account. A supervisor
algorithm provides the operating parameters needed to establish
each plant loading. Economic implications related to maintenance
strategies including postponement or anticipation of maintenance
interventions are investigated and results obtained by the numerical
simulation are presented and widely discussed.
