Patent ID: 8903753

Claim:
A steam turbine performance testing system, comprising: at least one computer hardware device including: a neural network created using a dynamic steam turbine thermodynamic model and preliminary data collected from a steam turbine, wherein the dynamic steam thermodynamic model allows for a variation of a thermodynamic definition of the steam turbine by modifying parameters including a stage efficiency, a section efficiency, a pressure variation, a temperature variation, and a mechanical loss, and wherein the dynamic steam turbine thermodynamic model includes a heat soak rejection model for allowing time dependent changes in the variation of the thermodynamic definition by including an amount of heat from at least one of a heat decrease as the steam turbine cools down and a heat increase as the steam turbine heats up; a network tester for testing the neural network with testing data; a current performance calculator for calculating a current performance of the steam turbine from operation data of the steam turbine; and a projected performance calculator for calculating a projected performance of the steam turbine from the current performance, wherein the projected performance is based upon a guarantee point.