TY - JOUR A1 - Mier, Dominik A1 - Möllenbruck, Florian A1 - Jost, Michael A1 - Grote, Wolfgang A1 - Mönnigmann, Martin T1 - Model predictive control of the steam cycle in a solar power plant JF - IFAC-PapersOnLine N2 - We derive a nonlinear model of the steam cycle of a solar power plant, estimate its unknown parameters with measured data, and design a linear model predictive controller based on the resulting model. Simulations show that the linear model predictive controller is able to regulate the electrical power of the nonlinear steam process of the plant to a given reference trajectory very well. Moreover, it results in very good disturbance rejection. KW - Power plant control KW - solar power KW - model predictive control Y1 - 2015 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ifacol.2015.09.052 SN - 2405-8963 VL - 48 IS - 8 SP - 710 EP - 715 PB - Elsevier ER -