Optimisation of concentrating solar thermal power plants with neural networks

  • Authors:
  • Pascal Richter;Erika Ábrahám;Gabriel Morin

  • Affiliations:
  • Chair of Computer Science 2, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen and Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems, Freiburg, Germany;Chair of Computer Science 2, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany;Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems, Freiburg, Germany

  • Venue:
  • ICANNGA'11 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Adaptive and natural computing algorithms - Volume Part I
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

The exploitation of solar power for energy supply is of increasing importance. While technical development mainly takes place in the engineering disciplines, computer science offers adequate techniques for simulation, optimisation and controller synthesis. In this paper we describe a work from this interdisciplinary area. We introduce our tool for the optimisation of parameterised solar thermal power plants, and report on the employment of genetic algorithms and neural networks for parameter synthesis. Experimental results show the applicability of our approach.