Web-based Application Design for Coal-Transportation Networks of Thermal Power Plant

The coal-transportation programming is a very specific application to thermal power plant. A coal-fired power plant is a very complicated, custom-designed system that requires many special transportation structures and equipment such as sieving coal machines, coal crushers with different number of input/output belts and transmission speeds to variable directions. In this paper, we propose the fault-tolerant shortest routing for a coal transportation network of the thermal power plant in Taiwan. The assumed coal transportation network starts from a dedicate ship uploaders for the power plant to each coal-fired generators. We analyze the features of existing coal transportation network and construct the minimum spanning tree. To satisfy practical transportation needs, the fault-tolerant routing consists of one-to-one, one-to-many and many-to-many shortest path routing algorithms based on different operation scenarios along with different transportation requirements.