Study of Erosion Control Techniques Applied to Hydroelectric Power Plants Reservoir Margins

Model-Free Based Water Level Control for Hydroelectric Power Plants

Automatic water level control methods for open channels have difficulties to keep good performances for a large range of flow and significant unknown disturbances. A new concept called Model-Free Control is applied in this paper for hydroelectric run-of-the river power plants. To modulate power generation, a level trajectory is planned for cascaded power plants. Numerous dynamic simulations sho...

Fuzzy Scheduling Applied on Hydroelectric Power Generation

Nonlinear Optimal Control Techniques Applied to a Launch Vehicle Autopilot

This paper presents an application of the nonlinear optimal control techniques to the design of launch vehicle autopilots. The optimal control is given by the solution to the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation, which in this case cannot be solved explicity. A method based upon Successive Galerkin Approximation (SGA), is used to obtain an approximate optimal solution. Simulation results invo...

An Overview of Hydroelectric Power Plant: Operation, Modeling, and Control

Renewable energy provides twenty percent of electricity generation worldwide. Hydroelectric power is the cheapest way to generate electricity today. It is a renewable source of energy and provides almost one-fifth of electricity in the world. Also, it generates electricity using a renewable natural resource and accounting for six percent of worldwide energy supply or about fifteen percent of th...

A Comparison between OTC and P&O MPPT Control Methods Applied to Small Sized Wind Power Plants

This paper provides a review of OTC and P&O; MPPT controllers used for extracting maximum power from the wind energy systems using permanent magnet synchronous generators. Hence, the output power of wind energy system varies continually as wind speed changes, it is desirable to determine the one optimal generator speed that ensures maximum energy yield. Thus, it is important to include a con...