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A Cost-Effective and Efficient Electronic Design for Photovoltaic Systems for Solar Hot Water Production
(MDPI, 2021)A significant percentage of energy consumption in buildings is to produce hot water. Photovoltaic solar heating can be considered a clean and renewable energy option—easy to install, silent, and without maintenance—to ... -
A hybrid modeling approach for steady-state optimal operation of vapor compression refrigeration cycles
(2018)This paper presents a steady-state hybrid modeling approach for vapor compression refrigeration cycles which is intended to achieve an optimal system operation from an energy consumption point of view. The model development ... -
A Linux cluster of personal computers for the numerical simulation of natural airflows in greenhouses using a lattice model
(Elsevier, 2006)Some numerical models need a considerable computational effort to run their simulations. This fact is translated into long execution times delaying the decisions that have to be taken by the modeller in order to obtain the ... -
A Methodology for Buildings Access to Solar Radiation in Sustainable Cities
(MDPI, 2019)The growing need to improve the environmental and energy sustainability of buildings involves the use of solar radiation incident on their surfaces. However, in cities, this task is complicated due to the constructive ... -
A novel backtracking approach for two-axis solar PV tracking plants
(Elsevier, 2020)Solar tracking is a technique required to increase energy production in multiple photovoltaic (PV) facilities. In these plants, during low-elevation solar angle hours, shadows appear between the collectors causing a dramatic ... -
A Novel Direct Load Control Testbed for Smart Appliances
(MDPI, 2019)The effort to continuously improve and innovate smart appliances (SA) energy management requires an experimental research and development environment which integrates widely differing tools and resources seamlessly. To ... -
A practical tuning methodology for event-based PI control
(Elsevier, 2014)This paper is focused on the tuning of an event-based PI controller for first-order plus time delay systems(FOPTD). In this work, a novel design and combination of a controller and event generator with an easy-to-use tuning ... -
A unified event-based control approach for FOPTD and IPTD processes based on the filtered Smith predictor
(Elsevier, 2017)A new unified design of an event-based PID control architecture for self-regulating and integral processes is investigated in this work. The design is based on the Symmetrical-Send-On-Delta sampling technique (SSOD) and ... -
Adaptive active generator torque controller design using multi-objective optimization for tower lateral load reduction in monopile offshore wind turbines
(IEEE Access, 2023)The study of fatigue load reduction in wind turbines has gained significant interest in recent years. In monopile offshore wind turbines, vibrations induced by misalignment between waves and wind directions can considerably ... -
Adaptive Pitch Controller of a Large-Scale Wind Turbine Using Multi-Objective Optimization
(MDPI, 2021)This paper deals with the control problems of a wind turbine working in its nominal zone. In this region, the wind turbine speed is controlled by means of the pitch angle, which keeps the nominal power constant against ... -
AICLE en acción: interacciones formativas y profesionales entre profesorado de todos los estamentos educativos
(UCOPress, 2019)AICLE (Aprendizaje Integrado de Contenidos y Lenguas Extranjeras) es el enfoque oficial europeo para la educación bilingüe, auspiciado por la Comisión Europea y fomentado por una cantidad ingente de investigación e ... -
An approach for estimating the maximum specific growth rate of Gluconobacter japonicus in strawberry purée without cell concentration data
(Elsevier, 2016)The estimation of the maximum specific growth rate ( max) for non-readily culturable bacteria, growing on complex media containing suspended solids, is a difficult task considering the important problems in obtaining ... -
An educational computer tool for simulating long-term soil erosion on agricultural landscapes
(Wiley, 2009)Due to its economic and environmental impacts, soil erosion has been a major concern to farmers, engineers and policy makers in recent years. Water and tilling are two of the main agents responsible for this phenomenon and ... -
An extended approach of inverted decoupling
(2011)This paper presents an extension of the inverted decoupling approach that allows for more flexibility in choosing the transfer functions of the decoupled apparent process. In addition, the expressions of the inverted ... -
Analysis of adaptive individual pitch control schemes for blade fatigue Load reduction on a 15 MW wind turbine
(MDPI, 2024)Individual pitch control (IPC) is a method to mitigate periodic blade loads in wind turbines, and it is typically implemented using the multi-blade coordinate (MBC) transform, which converts the blade load measurements ... -
Analysis of the Influence of Terrain Orientation on the Design of PV Facilities with Single-Axis Trackers
(MDPI, 2020)This paper investigates how to optimally orient the photovoltaic solar trackers of an axis parallel to the terrain, applying the sky model of Hay–Davies. This problem has been widely studied. However, the number of studies ... -
Benchmarking Analysis of the Panorama of Grid-Connected PV Installations in Spain
(MDPI, 2022)Renewable energies play an important role as a solution to the challenge of satisfying the growing global energy demand without jeopardizing the achievements in the fight against climate change. Given this panorama, different ... -
Centralized Inverted Decoupling Control
(2013)This paper presents a new methodology of multivariable centralized control based on the structure of inverted decoupling. The method is presented for general n×n processes, obtaining very simple general expressions for the ... -
Centralized multivariable control by simplified decoupling
(2012)This paper presents a generalized formulation of simplified decoupling to n×n processes that allows for different configurations depending on the decoupler elements set to unity. To apply this decoupling method, the ... -
Comparative Analysis of Decoupling Control Methodologies and H¥ Multivariable Robust Control for Variable-Speed, Variable-PitchWind Turbines: Application to a Lab-Scale Wind Turbine
(MDPI, 2017)This work is focused on the improvement of variable-speed variable-pitch wind turbine performance by means of its control structure. This kind of systems can be considered as multivariable nonlinear processes subjected ...