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An adaptive temperature control law for a solar furnace
B. Andrade Costa,João M. Lemos +1 more
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In this article, the authors describe the development of an adaptive control law based on the exact feedback linearization and Lyapunov adaptation of the process dynamics applied to a solar furnace.About:
This article is published in Control Engineering Practice.The article was published on 2009-10-01. It has received 25 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Adaptive control & Solar furnace.read more
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Implementation of photovoltaic array MPPT through fixed step predictive control technique
TL;DR: In this paper, the implementation of photovoltaic (PV) array maximum power point tracker (MPPT) through fixed step-model predictive controller (FS MPC) is proposed.
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Modelling of the receiver transient flux distribution due to cloud passages on a solar tower thermal power plant
Germain Augsburger,Daniel Favrat +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a worst case configuration for the start-up/shut-down of the heliostats in a solar tower thermal power plant, based on the cloud and cloud passage characteristics.
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Fractional robust PID control of a solar furnace
TL;DR: In this paper, the generalized isodamping technique was used to achieve the invariance of the control loop phase margin with respect to the plant operating point through a properly designed fractional-order proportional-integral-derivative controller.
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A switching control strategy applied to a solar collector field
TL;DR: In this article, a switching control procedure that has been chosen to deal with the changes in plant dynamics is presented, where several control systems composed of IMC-based PID controllers and feed forward compensators are designed for each operation region and a continuous switching mechanism is defined.
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Modeling and nonlinear predictive functional control of liquid level in a coke fractionation tower
TL;DR: In this article, the level control of the fractionation tower in industrial coke unit is not very easy due to its complex characteristics and nonlinearity, and a more comprehensive nonlinear model-based predictive control method can further improve control performance.
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Applied Nonlinear Control
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Heat Transfer: A Practical Approach
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TL;DR: The context of renewable energies cost and resource assessment solar thermal energy solar photovoltaics energy from biomass hydroelectricity tidal power wind energy wave energy geothermal energy integration of renewable energy sources is discussed in this paper.
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Control Systems with Input and Output Constraints
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an approach for controlling a batch Reactor with input and output constraints, using a cascade-based feedback structure and a buffer-based control scheme.
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Sliding mode predictive control of a solar air conditioning plant
TL;DR: In this paper, a sliding mode predictive control (SMPC) was applied to an air conditioning solar plant to handle set point changes and disturbance rejection, which showed a considerable robustness improvement with respect to MPC under experimental validation on a real plant.