INTELLIGENT CONTROL OF POWER PLANTS AND PROCESSES

Zoran Baus

   The paper presents a possible application of intelligent (fuzzy adaptive and optimal) control in the power generation system. This method of control considerably improves the quality of control and reduces the effects of nonlinearity, parameter changes and disturbance values on system behavior. The obtained results, along with knowledge and experience gained in the development and application of fuzzy adaptive and optimal control of electromechanical systems open new fields of intelligent control application in both power plant processes (boiler, turbine, synchronous generator, electric motor drive, etc), power plant itself and the power generating system as a whole.

Keywords: intelligent control, fuzzy adaptive and optimal control, fuzzy controller, cognitive controller, neural network

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