Significant changes over the past decade in computing technology, along with widespread deregulation of electricity industries, have impacted on power plant operations while affording engineers the opportunity to introduce monitoring and plant-wide control schemes that were previously unfeasible. Contributors of world-class excellence are brought together in Thermal Power Plant Simulation and Control to illustrate how current areas of research can be applied to power plant operation, leading to enhanced unit performance, asset management and plant competitiveness through intelligent monitoring and control strategies.

Damian Flynn is a lecturer in power engineering in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at The Queen's University of Belfast. A Chartered Engineer and member of the IET, his research interests lie in power plant advanced monitoring and control, power system stability and wind power integration.