Course Power Plant Data Quality Assessment

Description

This course is intended for power industry scientists and engineers interested in evaluating the accuracy of power plant performance measurements. It is in complete harmony with the principles of the ISO and other international standards on measurement uncertainty. Included are the critical factors in estimating the quality and utility of power plant test measurements. These include the basics of the standard measurement uncertainty model, evaluating systematic and random error sources, fundamentals of uncertainty budgets and the statistics needed for uncertainty/accuracy analysis. Extra attention is placed on the personal problems of developing confidence in power plant test results. Special emphasis on understanding is achieved through lecture, discussion, two class experiments and the in-class working of many homework problems. After this one-day course, the students will be able to apply these basic analysis techniques to power plant performance tests in order to properly evaluate the impact of those measurement systems. This course is taught on a college level presuming that the students have least BS degrees in engineering or science. Students need to bring calculators to work the experiments and problems.