Simulation and Control of Solar Thermal Power Plants

Solar thermal power plants

Sustainability in Solar Thermal Power Plants

Predictive control of thermal Power Plants

This work presents the results of a project aimed at verifying the applicability of industrial model predictive control (MPC) to thermal Power Plants. The research is motivated by the need to improve the efficiency of power plants so as to cope with the high levels of competition induced by the deregulation of the energy market. A detailed plant simulator, already used for operators training an...

Optimisation of Concentrating Solar Thermal Power Plants with Neural Networks

The exploitation of solar power for energy supply is of increasing importance. While technical development mainly takes place in the engineering disciplines, computer science offers adequate techniques for simulation, optimisation and controller synthesis. In this paper we describe a work from this interdisciplinary area. We introduce our tool for the optimisation of parameterised solar thermal...

Simulation of a Solar Thermal Central Receiver Power Plant

As the successor of the SOLGAS Project(see [10] in [6]and [3]), which investigated the technical and economical viability of the combination of a solar thermal Central Receiver with a conventional fuel operated power plant, the Colón Solar project is dealing with the actual engineering phase of such a plant. The goal of the study is twofold: First, to investigate control strategies that can han...