Control of the Aero-Electric Power Station - An exciting QFT application for the 21st century

International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 619-636

  Gutman, Per Olof ^a   Horesh, Eran ^a   Guetta, Rami ^a   Borshchevsky, Michael ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Aero Electric Power Station; Load sharing control; Quantitative feedback theory; Solar power

Indexed keywords

CLOSED LOOP CONTROL SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; SOLAR POWER PLANTS;

QUANTITATIVE FEEDBACK THEORY (QFT);

FEEDBACK CONTROL;

EID: 0038614667     PISSN: 10498923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rnc.828     Document Type: Article

References (13)

1. Guetta R. Energy from dry air - a mathematical model to describe the air flow, droplet evaporation in the Energy Tower. Ph.D. thesis, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, 1993 (in Hebrew).
2. Zaslavsky D. Solar energy without a collector for electricity, water in the 21st century. Lecture presented on the 150 Universary of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Viena, Austria, 1997.
3. Zaslavsky D. Aero-Electric Power Stations - a summary of R & D 1982-1998. Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, 1999 (in Hebrew).
4. Horesh E. Design of Control for the Energy Tower. M.Sc. thesis, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, 2001 (in Hebrew).
5. Borshchevsky M. One-dimensional model for the description of air flow, droplets in the Energy Tower. Internal report, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, 1998 (in Hebrew).
6. Ekelund T. Control of variable speed wind turbines in a broad range of wind speeds. Report no. 172L, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden, 1994.
7. Freris L. Wind Energy Conversion Systems. Prentice Hall International: New York, 1990.
8. Eitelberg E. Load Sharing Control. NOYB Press: Durban, 1999.
9. Gutman P-O. Qsyn - the Tool box for Robust Control Systems Design, User's Guide. El-Op Electro-Optics Ind., Rehovot, Israel, 1995.
10. Pnueli D, Gutfinger C. Fluid Mechanics. Cambridge University Press: U.K., 1992.
11. Wallace JM, Hobbs PV. Atmospheric Science - An Introductory Survey, Academic Press: New York, 1977.
12. Krivchenko, Grigory. Hydraulic Machines: Turbines and Pumps. Lewis: London, 1994.
13. Sternby J. A review of Extremum Control, Internal report, Department of Automatic Control, Lund Institute of Technology, Lund, Sweden, 1979.