Automatic control of a 30 MWe SEGS VI parabolic trough plant

Solar Energy

Volumn 76, Issue 1-3, 2004, Pages 187-193

  Stuetzle, Thorsten ^a   Blair, Nathan ^a   Mitchell, John W ^a   Beckman, William A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic control; Parabolic trough collector; SEGS

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONTROL; HEAT TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERFORMANCE; SOLAR POWER PLANTS;

LINEAR MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROLLER; PARABOLIC TROUGH PLANT;

SOLAR COLLECTORS;

AUTOMATED CONTROL; COLLECTOR; FLOW CONTROL; HEAT TRANSFER; TEMPERATURE CONTROL;

EID: 0346398396     PISSN: 0038092X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solener.2003.01.002     Document Type: Article

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