Governor Design for a Hydropower Plant with an Upstream Surge Tank by GA-Based Fuzzy Reduced-Order Sliding Mode

This paper investigates governor design by reduced-order sliding mode for a hydropower plant with an upstream surge tank. The governing system is made up of a tunnel, a surge tank, a penstock, a wicket gate and servomechanism, a governor, a hydro-turbine and a grid. Concerning the components of the...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Chang Xu, Dianwei Qian
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2015-11-01
Series:Energies
Subjects:
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/8/12/12376