The present sought to draw a comparison between Model Predictive Control performance and two other controllers named Simple PI and Selective PI in controlling large-scale natural gas transport networks. A nonlinear dynamic model of representative gas pipeline was derived from pipeline governing rules and simulated in SIMULINK® environment of MATLAB®. Control schemes were designed to provide a s...

In this paper, an adaptive virtual inertia-damping system based on model predictive control (MPC) is proposed to enhance the frequency dynamic performance of islanded microgrids (MGs) considering a high penetration level renewable energy sources (RESs). Recently, large amount RESs replacing traditional generating units, causing undesirable effect MG stability and inertia, thus weakening MG. The...

This contribution investigates the application of a nonlinear model based adaptive predictive control algorithm to a pH neutralization plant. A local linear model network is responsible for the online identification of the plant. The advantage of such a model is that the information needed by the predictive control algorithm to build gradients is directly available. This aspect reduces the comp...