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Thermal balance of large scale parabolic trough plants: A case study
(Elsevier, 2019)
The main control objective in commercial solar parabolic plants is to track the average temperature of all the loops around a reference set by the operator, by manipulating the flow of a synthetic oil. Due to the large ...
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Scenario-based model predictive control for energy scheduling in a parabolic trough concentrating solar plant with thermal storage
(Elsevier, 2023-04)
Optimal energy planning is a key topic in thermal solar trough plants. Obtaining a profitable energy schedule is difficult due to the stochastic nature of solar irradiance and electricity prices. This article focuses on ...
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Mathematical Modeling of the Parabolic Trough Collector Field of the TCP-100 Research Plant
(Linköping University Electronic Press, Linköpings universitet, 2018)
There are two main drawbacks when operating solar energy systems: a) the resulting energy costs are not yet competitive and b) solar energy is not always available when needed. In order to improve the overall solar ...
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Gain-Scheduling Model Predictive Control of a Fresnel Collector Field
(Elsevier, 2019)
Model predictive control strategies have been applied successfully when controlling solar plants. If the control algorithm uses a linear model associated only to an operating point, when the plant is working far from the ...
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Incremental State-Space Model Predictive Control of a Fresnel Solar Collector Field
(2018-12)
Model predictive control has been demonstrated to be one of the most efficient control techniques for solar power systems. An incremental offset-free state-space Model Predictive Controller (MPC) is developed for the ...
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Mathematical Modeling of the Mojave Solar Plants
(MDPI, 2019-11)
Competitiveness of solar energy is one of current main research topics. Overall efficiency of solar plants can be improved by using advanced control strategies. To design and tuning properly advanced control strategies, ...
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Model predictive control based on deep learning for solar parabolic-trough plants
(Elsevier, 2021-12)
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 demand that hinders its application to some processes. ...
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Nonlinear model predictive control for thermal balance in solar trough plants
(Elsevier, 2022-09)
The size of existing commercial solar trough plants poses new challenges in applying advanced control strategies to optimize operation. One of these challenges is to obtain a better thermal balance of the loops’ temperature. ...
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Hybrid Nonlinear MPC of a Solar Cooling Plant
(MDPI, 2019-07)
Solar energy for cooling systems has been widely used to fulfill the growing air conditioning demand. The advantage of this approach is based on the fact that the need of air conditioning is usually well correlated to ...
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Adaptive incremental state space MPC for collector defocusing of a parabolic trough plant
(Elsevier, 2019)
Commercial solar plants produce energy around a nominal operating point in which the solar field outlet temperature is high and close to the thermal limit of the heat transfer fluid. The main control of the temperature is ...