Industrial application of a model predictive control solution for power plant startups

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Control Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 243-248

  D'Amato, Fernando Javier ^a  

^a GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED CONTROL; COMBINED-CYCLE PLANTS; EFFICIENT ALGORITHM; EMISSION REDUCTION; ENERGY UTILITIES; FUEL SAVINGS; OPERATING CONSTRAINTS; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; PREDICTIVE CONTROL; PROTOTYPING; QUADRATIC PROGRAMMING PROBLEMS; REAL-TIME IMPLEMENTATIONS; SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS; STRUCTURED PROBLEMS; TIME SAVINGS; TURBINE LOADS;

CONTROLLERS; EMISSION CONTROL; FUEL ECONOMY; GAS TURBINES; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; LEAKAGE (FLUID); MARINE ENGINES; OPERATING COSTS; OPTIMIZATION; PLANT STARTUP; PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; REAL TIME CONTROL; STEAM POWER PLANTS; TURBINES;

MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL;

EID: 77952891418     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CACSD-CCA-ISIC.2006.4776653     Document Type: Conference Paper

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