Fire Detection for Coal Conveyor Belt at Taichung Power Plant, Taiwan The Taichung Power Plant is a coal-?red power plant based in Taiwan. With an installed capacity of 5,780 MW , it is the largest coal-?red power station in the world. The power plant consists of ten coal-?red units with nominal capacity of 550 MW each. Because of safety concerns and several ?re accidents, the management of Taichung Power Plant decided to equip its system of coal conveyor belts with a ?re detection system to monitor the temperature along the belts and in case of ?re, quickly send alarms to operators in order to minimize the damages. Monitoring coal conveyor belts provides an obvious challenge as there is a risk of the ?re moving with the operation of the belt and therefore rapid detection and precise loca

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