Optimization of boiler control to improve the load-following capability of power-plant units

Control Engineering Practice

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1531-1539

  Mortensen, Jan H ^a   Moelbak, Tommy ^a   Andersen, Palle ^b   Pedersen, Tom S ^b  

^a DONG Energy AS   (Denmark)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Boilers; Feedback control; Feedforward control; LQG control; Multivariable control; Optimization; Power station control; Scheduling algorithms

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ELECTRIC LOADS; ELECTRIC POWER PLANTS; FEEDBACK CONTROL; MULTIVARIABLE CONTROL SYSTEMS; NONLINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; PROCESS CONTROL;

FAST LOAD CHANGES; FEEDFORWARD CONTROL; SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS;

BOILER CONTROL;

EID: 0032319334     PISSN: 09670661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0967-0661(98)00114-2     Document Type: Article

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