Optimization and advanced control of thermal energy storage systems

WJ Cole, KM Powell, TF Edgar - Reviews in Chemical Engineering, 2012 - degruyter.com
This paper reviews the optimization and control of thermal energy storage systems.
Emphasis is given to thermal storage applied to combined heat and power systems, building …

Control of solar energy systems

EF Camacho, M Berenguel - IFAC proceedings volumes, 2012 - Elsevier
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 …

Supervisory predictive control of standalone wind/solar energy generation systems

W Qi, J Liu, X Chen… - IEEE transactions on …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work focuses on the development of a supervisory model predictive control method for
the optimal management and operation of hybrid standalone wind-solar energy generation …

A survey on control schemes for distributed solar collector fields. Part II: Advanced control approaches

EF Camacho, FR Rubio, M Berenguel, L Valenzuela - Solar Energy, 2007 - Elsevier
This article presents a survey of the different advanced automatic control techniques that
have been applied to control the outlet temperature of solar plants with distributed collectors …

Model predictive control in solar trough plants: A review

EF Camacho, AJ Gallego - IFAC-PapersOnLine, 2015 - Elsevier
The importance of the use of renewable energy sources has experienced a great impulse
since the beginning of the 80s. In particular, solar energy is the most abundant source of …

A distributed control framework for smart grid development: Energy/water system optimal operation and electric grid integration

W Qi, J Liu, PD Christofides - Journal of Process Control, 2011 - Elsevier
In this work, we propose a conceptual distributed control framework for electrical grid
integrated with distributed renewable energy generation systems in order to enable the …

Feedback linearization control for a distributed solar collector field

CM Cirre, M Berenguel, L Valenzuela… - Control Engineering …, 2007 - Elsevier
This article describes the application of a feedback linearization technique for control of a
distributed solar collector field using the energy from solar radiation to heat a fluid. The …

Sliding mode predictive control of a solar air conditioning plant

W Garcia-Gabin, D Zambrano, EF Camacho - Control Engineering Practice, 2009 - Elsevier
In this work, sliding mode predictive control (SMPC) was applied to an air conditioning solar
plant. The process has a variable time delay with non-minimum phase behavior, whose …

Variable sampling adaptive control of a distributed collector solar field

RN Silva, JM Lemos, LM Rato - IEEE Transactions on Control …, 2003 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Distributed collector solar fields are spatially distributed engineering systems, which aim at
collecting and storing energy from solar radiation. They are formed by mirrors which …

Control of thermal solar energy plants

EF Camacho, M Berenguel, AJ Gallego - Journal of process control, 2014 - Elsevier
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 …