Hierarchical hydro power valley control: Validation on simulation platform

Damien Faille (1) , Frans Davelaar (1) , Sébastien Murgey , Didier Dumur (2)

1 EDF R&D STEP - Simulation et Traitement de l'information pour l'Exploitation des systèmes de Production
2 E3S - Supélec Sciences des Systèmes

Hydro power valleys (HPV) are large scale interconnected systems. All plant operations have to comply with technical and environmental requirements concerning level, flow rate and power variations. A two-layer hierarchical MPC solution, designed to manage the large scale constrained and time delayed HPV, is tested on a simulation platform. The upper layer optimizes the power profiles on a one-day horizon with a coarse step size. The lower level refines the control for a shorter horizon and step size. Simulations show that the coordination is able to improve the maneuverability of the HPV.

Mots clés: Hydro power valley; Hierarchical control; Simulation platform

Domaines: Sciences de l'ingénieur [physics]

Damien Faille, Frans Davelaar, Sébastien Murgey, Didier Dumur. Hierarchical hydro power valley control: Validation on simulation platform. Control Engineering Practice, 2014, 30, pp.160-168. ⟨10.1016/j.conengprac.2014.03.013⟩. ⟨hal-01155051⟩