TY - BOOK ID - 9910090 TI - Advanced control of solar plants AU - Berenguel, Manuel AU - Carnacho, Eduardo F. AU - Rubio, Francisco R. PY - 1997 SN - 3540761446 1447112490 1447109813 PB - Berlin Springer DB - UniCat KW - #TELE:SISTA KW - Electric power systems KW - Solar power plants KW - Solar thermal energy KW - Control. KW - Control KW - Power systems, Electric KW - Systems, Electric power KW - Electric power production KW - Solar thermal conversion KW - Solar thermal power systems KW - Solar thermal technology KW - Thermodynamic conversion of solar energy KW - Heat engineering KW - Solar energy KW - Power-plants KW - Renewable energy resources. KW - Control engineering. KW - Robotics. KW - Mechatronics. KW - Renewable and Green Energy. KW - Control, Robotics, Mechatronics. KW - Mechanical engineering KW - Microelectronics KW - Microelectromechanical systems KW - Automation KW - Machine theory KW - Control engineering KW - Control equipment KW - Control theory KW - Engineering instruments KW - Programmable controllers UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:9910090 AB - 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. ER -