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Adaptive Control of Solar Energy Collector Systems (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014)
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Adaptive Control of Solar Energy Collector Systems (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014)
Series: Advances in Industrial Control
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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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