Linear quadratic regulator for a bottoming solid oxide fuel cell gas turbine hybrid system

Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 131, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1-9

  Mueller, Fabian ^a   Jabbari, Faryar ^a   Brouwer, Jacob ^a   Junker, S Tobias ^b   Ghezel Ayagh, Hossein ^b  

^a Irvine   (United States)

^b FUELCELL ENERGY INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Control design; Gas turbine; Kalman filter; Linear quadratic regulator; Relative gain array; SOFC hybrid

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED CONTROL ALGORITHMS; AMBIENT TEMPERATURES; CONTROL DESIGN; CONTROL OBJECTIVES; DECENTRALIZED CONTROLLER; FUEL CELL STACK; FUEL CELL TEMPERATURE; FUEL COMPOSITIONS; FUEL UTILIZATION; HIGH TEMPERATURE FUEL CELLS; HYBRID POWER PLANTS; INDEPENDENT CONTROL; INTEGRAL SYSTEMS; KALMAN-FILTERING; LINEAR QUADRATIC REGULATOR; POWER OUT PUT; REACTING SPECIES; RELATIVE GAIN ARRAY; SOFC HYBRID; TIME-SCALES; TURBINE SPEED;

ALGORITHMS; CONTROLLERS; DECENTRALIZED CONTROL; DURABILITY; ELECTRIC GROUNDING; GAS PLANTS; GAS TURBINES; GASES; HYBRID COMPUTERS; HYBRID SYSTEMS; KALMAN FILTERS; MAINTENANCE; MULTIVARIABLE CONTROL SYSTEMS; SOLID OXIDE FUEL CELLS (SOFC); TEMPERATURE; TURBOMACHINERY;

GAS TURBINE POWER PLANTS;

EID: 77955865507     PISSN: 00220434     EISSN: 15289028     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.3155007     Document Type: Article

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