A survey on control schemes for distributed solar collector fields. Part II: Advanced control approaches

This article presents a survey of the different advanced automatic control techniques that have been applied to control the outlet temperature of solar plants with distributed collectors during the last 25 years. A classification of the modeling and control approaches described in the first part of this survey is used to explain the main features of each strategy. The treated strategies range from classical advanced control strategies to those with few industrial applications. 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved