This book describes methods for adaptive control of
distributed-collector solar fields: plants that collect solar
energy and deliver it in thermal form. Controller design methods
are presented that can overcome difficulties found in these type of
plants: they are distributed-parameter systems, i.e., systems with
dynamics that depend on space as well as time;their dynamics is
nonlinear, with a bilinear structure;there is a significant level
of uncertainty in plant knowledge.
Adaptive methods form the focus of the text because of the
degree of uncertainty in the knowledge of plant dynamics. Parts of
the text are devoted to design methods that assume only a very
limited knowledge about the plant. Other parts detail methods that
rely on knowledge of the dominant plant structure. These methods
are more plant specific, but allow the improvement of
performance.
"Adaptive Control of Solar Energy Collector Systems"
demonstrates the dynamics of solar fields to be rich enough to
present a challenge to the control designer while, at the same
time, simple enough to allow analytic work to be done, providing
case studies on dynamics and nonlinear control design in a simple
and revealing, but nontrivial way.
The control approaches treated in this monograph can be
generalized to apply to other plants modelled by hyperbolic partial
differential equations, especially process plants in which
transport phenomena occur, plants like dryers, steam super-heaters
and even highway traffic.
An important example, used repeatedly throughout the text, is a
distributed-collector solar field installed at Plataforma Solar de
Almeria, located in southern Spain. The control algorithms laid out
in the text are illustrated with experimental results generated
from this plant.
Although the primary focus of this monograph is solar energy
collector, the range of other systems which can benefit from the
methods described will make it of interest to control engineers
working in many industries as well as to academic control
researchers interested in adaptive control and its
applications.
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