Control room for high-efficiency power plant

This paper describes the design of the control room for a high-efficiency power plant and addresses the choice of operation mode discussing operation using the screen-based technique as supplement to or substitution for a conventional switchboard; presents the design of the control room on the basis of comfort parameters; discusses methods of arranging the task-oriented areas in the control room in relation to each other; describes the principles of selecting information to the operators on screen images; and finally reports experience from the first two years of operation together with more important lessons learnt from the operators' work in the selected surroundings and with the system. Thus the whole process of creating optimum conditions for the operators has taken human factors into account. The design of the control room and operating media has been completed with respect to complying with the planned high efficiency of the unit.