N2 - The paper presents a thermodynamic optimization of supercritical coal fired power plant. The aim of the study was to optimize part of the thermal cycle consisted of high-pressure turbine and two chosen highpressure feed water heaters. Calculations were carried out using IPSEpro software combined with MATLAB, where thermal efficiency and gross power generation efficiency were chosen as objective functions. It was shown that the optimization with newly developed framework is sufficiently precise and its main advantage is the reduction of computation time on comparison to the classical method. The calculations have shown the tendency of the increase in efficiency, with the rise of a number of function variables. L1 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/94356/PDF/08_paper.pdf L2 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/94356 PY - 2012 IS - No 3 October EP - 105 DO - 10.2478/v10173-012-0021-0 KW - Thermodynamic optimization KW - Efficiency KW - Supercritical power plant KW - Simulation A1 - Elsner, Witold A1 - Kowalczyk, Ɓukasz A1 - Marek, Maciej PB - The Committee of Thermodynamics and Combustion of the Polish Academy of Sciences and The Institute of Fluid-Flow Machinery Polish Academy of Sciences DA - 2012 T1 - Numerical thermodynamic optimization of supercritical coal fired power plant with support of IPSEpro software SP - 96 UR - http://journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/94356 T2 - Archives of Thermodynamics