The use of solar thermal systems to produce heat for industrial processes is a feasible option
that is gaining increasing interest in recent years as an initiative toward the zero-carbon …

Abstract Development of renewable power generation systems (RPGSs) is continually
increasing worldwide with Germany, China, Japan, Italy and the USA are the leaders …

This work deals with the main control problems found in solar power systems and the
solutions proposed in literature. The paper first describes the main solar power …

Dynamic simulation results for a thermal energy storage (TES) unit used in a parabolic
trough concentrated solar power (CSP) system are presented. A two-tank-direct method is …

Reset Control Systems addresses the analysis for reset control treating both its basic form
which requires only that the state of the controller be reinitialized to zero (the reset action) …

Accurate power forecasting is of great importance to the turbine control and predictive
maintenance. However, traditional physics models and statistical models can no longer …

This article presents an outdoor test method to evaluate the optical and thermal performance
of parabolic-trough collectors of large size (length≥ 100 m), similar to those currently …

In this paper, a novel distributed Kalman filter (KF) algorithm along with a distributed model
predictive control (MPC) scheme for large-scale multi-rate systems is proposed. The …

This article shows how coalitional model predictive control (MPC) can be used to maximize
thermal power of large-scale solar parabolic-trough plants. This strategy dynamically …

In solar parabolic-trough plants, the use of Model Predictive Control (MPC) increases the
output thermal power. However, MPC has the disadvantage of a high computational …