The world's electricity generation has increased with renewable energy technologies such
as solar (solar power plant), wind energy (wind turbines), heat energy, and even ocean …

Abstract Recently, the International Energy Agency (IEA) released a comprehensive
roadmap for the global energy sector to achieve net-zero emission by 2050. Considering the …

Detecting the breakdown of industrial IoT devices is a major challenge. Despite these
challenges, real‐time sensor data from the industrial internet of things (IIoT) present several …

Solar plants are exposed to the appearance of faults in some of their components, as they
are vulnerable to the action of external agents (wind, rain, dust, birds…) and internal defects …

The size of the current commercial solar trough plants poses new challenges in the
applications of advanced control strategies. Ensuring safe operation while maintaining the …

Solar thermal plants have high nonlinearities and non-manipulated energy source which
make their control task a very challenging work. Linear controllers cannot cope with …

In solar thermal plants, as in any industrial process, it is important to maintain good control of
the system and, more importantly, to have a good security system to avoid exceeding the …

Uno de los principales métodos para mejorar la eficiencia en el uso y aprovechamiento de
la energía solar es la aplicación de técnicas avanzadas de control. En este trabajo se …

The addition of an electric heater to an existing thermal energy storage parabolic trough
concentrating solar power (CSP) plant can offer a low-cost, large-scale solution for grid …

One of the main control objectives in parabolic trough solar thermal plants is to maintain the
outlet temperature around an operating point. For this, a synthetic oil flow is used as the …