Design and implementation of temperature controller for solar furnace

Author

Mythily, R.S. ; Devadhas, Glan

Author_Institution

Dept. of E&I, Noorul Islam Coll. of Eng., Kumaracoil, India

fYear

2014

fDate

10-11 July 2014

Firstpage

426

Lastpage

430

Abstract

This paper explores different control techniques to control the temperature of material samples in a solar furnace. Solar furnaces provide the means to concentrate solar radiation on samples placed at their foci. The objective of the system is to control the temperature of the samples for testing purpose and the solar furnace are characterized to provide concentrated solar energy for testing applications. Control techniques including PI, PID, Fuzzy MPAC are implemented and simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of each methodology.

Keywords

control engineering computing; control system synthesis; furnaces; fuzzy control; model reference adaptive control systems; neural nets; solar energy concentrators; solar heating; temperature control; three-term control; PID control; concentrated solar energy; fuzzy control; model reference adaptive controller; neural network MRAC; solar furnace; temperature controller design; Adaptation models; Furnaces; Mathematical model; Neural networks; Temperature control; Training; Linearization; Nearal network model predictive adaptive control; Solar furnace; Thermal stress test; fuzzy;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Control, Instrumentation, Communication and Computational Technologies (ICCICCT), 2014 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kanyakumari

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-4191-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCICCT.2014.6992999

Filename

6992999