ABSTRACT
In this chapter, we will describe some of the software packages that need to be developed for controlling and optimizing the new renewable energy processes, primarily in domestic applications. Traditional controls evolved from using single control loops. Renewable energy control is a step beyond that. Traditional industrial control concentrated on keeping ¶ows, temperatures, pressures, etc., at their desired values, so these had only an indirect in¶uence on efciency, productivity, or protability of the controlled unit operation. In contrast, the main goal of renewable energy control will be to optimize efciency and protability, while treating the operating conditions (temperature, pressure, etc.) only as limits of the operating envelope.
