Taicang Power Plant Phase Ii Coal Shipping With Ship Program Research

With the progress of China's power industry reform, particularly since the separation of generation from the transmission functions, every generation company has been paying more attention on the profit making capability, the majority of which comes from the coal purchasing and transportation. As the coal price maintains at a high level, the cost of coal accounts for 80% to 85% of a power plant's total cost. Additionally, influenced by the soar of the international crude oil price, the coal transportation expense tends to be higher. The cost of fuel which was 25% of the transportation cost, accounts for 35% at present. The cost of shipping has been increased dramatically. The generation company, although subject to the prearrangement of the voyage line by the transportation company, requires to optimize the shipping arrangement so that the total coal transportation expenditure can be minimized. This paper studies the ship distribution of coal transportation routine arranged by Shanghai Time Shipping Company Ltd, after Tai Chang Power Plant Second Phase expansion .This paper studies the issue of Tai Chang power plant's coal shipping optimization. By selecting appropriate ships to transport coal by vessel, the total cost of transportation can be minimized.This paper discusses the background of Tai Chang Power Plant project and the current research both domestically and abroad. It also analyzes power plant coal mines situation and the condition of some major coal loading harbors throughout China. This paper explores the methodology of linear programming and the solution of spreadsheet method of integral programming. It also verifies the economical analyzing method for shipping operation so that various of operation parameters of shipping companies can be determined, which serves the basis of the establishment of Ship Distribution Model in shipping routines, targeting at minimizing the total shipping cost. Spreadsheet method is employed to compute the solution of the model, and ultimately gives the result of optimized coal transportation scheme for the power...