Advanced Control of Solar Plants
By: by Eduardo F. Camacho, Manuel Berenguel, Francisco R. Rubio
Contributors: Berenguel, Manuel; Rubio, Francisco R.
Series: Advances in Industrial Control; Advances in industrial control
Publisher: Springer London
Published: 1997
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9781447112495; 9781447109815
Subjects: Engineering; Renewable energy sources
Description: There is some degree of separation between the development of advanced control algorithms within the research community and their use in industrial practice. Several strategies developed from experimental research into improving the efficiency of solar thermal power plants are here examined in the context of their industrial application. The techniques described and applied are: modeling and simulation; adaptive control; model-based predictive control; frequency domain control and robust optimal control; and fuzzy logic control. Their effectiveness in this control process is assessed and the various techniques' advantages and drawbacks are analyzed and compared. The results obtained can be readily extended to other industrial processes; in this context, the solar control process examined provides an ideal test-bed since it exhibits many of the problems found in other processes, such as nonlinearities, changing dynamics and strong external disturbances. This is a comprehensive analysis of the practical application of different control strategies that will be of interest to control engineers working in solar power systems and throughout other process industries, and to researchers, scientists and graduate students in this field. Advances in Industrial Control aims to report and encourage the transfer of technology in control engineering. The rapid development of control technology has an impact on all areas of the control discipline. The series offers an opportunity for researchers to present an extended exposition of new work in all aspects of industrial control.
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Table of contents: title: Preface; title: List of figures; title: List of tables; title: Nomenclature; title: Introduction; title: Description and dynamic models of the plant; title: Basic control schema; title: Basic structures of adaptive control; title: Model-based predictive control strategies; title: Frequency-domain control and robust optimal control; title: Heuristic fuzzy logic control; title: Summary and concluding remarks; title: References; title: Index.