我國汽輪發電機與冷卻水塔使用情形非常普遍，一般化學工業或能源產業皆屬常見設備，但深入探討研究此系統的相關文獻並不多見，因此本研究結果將可對包含此類設備之工廠進行推廣，以達到節能與提高效益目標。先利用逐步回歸分析挑選影響汽輪發電機效率的重要變數，並同時考慮模型中固定變數的選擇，進一步建立多模型描述汽輪發電機效率；冷卻水塔部分則利用所量測數據直接進行出口水溫的多模型建立，最後利用汽輪發電機與冷卻水塔模型執行最佳化操作，而增加整體淨發電功率。

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