Robust Control for a Gas Turbine in Biomass-Based Electric Power Plants

A power plant can generate electric power using biomass from olive trees in Spain. The gasifier is capable of converting tons of wood chips per day into a gaseous fuel that is fed into a gas turbine. While there are significant systems whose models may be exactly obtained from physical laws and whose states are measured, it is much less realistic to assume that all the parameters, such as biogas pressure or specific heat ratio in gas turbines, are exactly known. It is then natural to investigate what happens to control systems involving unknown, or not precisely known, parameters. In this paper, the derived model of gas turbine is quite valid for robust control studies in biomass-based electric power plants.