This work addresses the design and real-time implementation of adaptive control
strategies on the parabolic solar collector to enhance the production efficiency under
varying working conditions. For example, the unpredictable variations of the solar
irradiance and thermal losses, these factors can be a major problem in the control
design. The control objective is to force the outlet temperature of the collector fluid,
to track a predefined reference temperature regardless of the environmental changes.
In this work, two control strategies have been designed and analyzed. First, an
intelligent proportional-integral feedback control, which combines the proportionalintegral feedback control with an ultra-local model is proposed. This strategy uses a transfer function model that has been derived and identified from real-time data and used to test the controller performance. Second, an adaptive nonlinear control using Lyapunov stability theory combined with the phenomenological representation of the system is introduced. This strategy uses a bilinear model derived from the heat transfer equation. Both control strategies showed good performance in the simulations with respect to the convergence time and tracking accuracy. Besides, the conventional proportional-integral controller has been successfully implemented in the real system.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:kaust.edu.sa/oai:repository.kaust.edu.sa:10754/656408 |
| Date | 08 1900 |
| Creators | Alharbi, Mohammad |
| Contributors | Laleg-Kirati, Taous-Meriem, Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering (CEMSE) Division, Ahmed, Shehab, Kammoun,Alba, Diagne, Mamadou |
| Source Sets | King Abdullah University of Science and Technology |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
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