Optimisation of Industrial Processes at Supervisory Level
Subtitle: Application to Control of Thermal Power Plants
By: by Doris Sáez, Aldo Cipriano, Andrzej W. Ordys
Contributors: Cipriano, Aldo; Ordys, Andrzej W.
Series: Advances in Industrial Control; Advances in industrial control
Publisher: Springer London
Published: 2002
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 187
ISBN-13: 9781447110811; 9781447101130
Subjects: Engineering; Production of electric energy or power; Structural control (Engineering)
Description: In the increasingly competitive modern world, the industrial sector faces new challenges such as improving productivity and reducing costs while taking into account the process operational constraints. As energy demand increases in many countries, especially in big cities where the environmental concerns are very important and resources to produce energy are limited, the efficiency of operation of power plants becomes of paramount importance. Under this scenario, this book presents new methodologies to improve power plants' efficiency, by using automatic control algorithms. This will lead to an improvement in the generation of companies' profit and also in the quality of their final product.
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Table of contents: title: 1. Introduction; title: 2. Non-linear Dynamic Modelling for Control Design; title: 3. Non-linear Predictive Control; title: 4. Supervisory Optimal Control Using a Given Regulatory Level; title: 5. Application to the Control of Thermal Power Plants; title: 6. Conclusions; title: Appendices A - E.