This work presents a combined optimization system to use solar energy as support for the ethanol industry. Solar radiation is used to produce energy in order to assist the cooling systems in the fermentation process. The experiments have been performed following a hardware in the loop technique...

This paper proposes a new predictive control strategy for a distributed collector field of a solar desalination plant. The main purpose of the controller is to manipulate the water flow rate to maintain constant the outlet-inlet temperature gradient in the collectors in spite of disturbances....