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Why apply advanced control in power plants? Just for direct economic benefit! And also for ecological benefits as a result of decreased fuel consumption, emission and component replacement. This book introduces some successful cases where the admirable benefits of advanced control and strict requirements of power plant operation could meet. Authors & chapters: Pal Szentannai: Introduction João Miranda Lemos, Paulo O'Connor Shirley, Rui Neves da Silva and Bertinho Andrade da Costa: Adaptive Predictive Control of Superheated Steam and Economic Performance Vladimir Havlena and Daniel Pachner: Model-Based Predictive Control of a Circulating Fluidized Bed Combustor Jen Kovács: Advances in Coordinated Control Wen Tan and Fang Fang: Linear Control of Boiler Turbine Units Mika Ruusunen, Advanced Combustion Power Stabilization Method for a Grate Fired Biomass Boiler Alfredo Sánchez-López and Gustavo Arroyo Figueroa: DMC and FLC for Steam Temperature Control Enso Ikonen and Kimmo Leppäkoski: Model-Based Multivariable Control of a Secondary Air System Using Controlled Finite Markov Chains Antony J. Croxford and Mark A. Gilbertson: The Control of Dense Gas-Fluidised Beds Through Pressure Measurement Raul Garduno-Ramirez: Fuzzy Gain-Scheduling Control and Loop Interaction Compensation for Variable Pressure Operation of a Thermal Power Plant Ilhan Kocaarslan: Application of Adaptive Control Concept in a 750 MW Coal Fired Power Plant Bertinho Andrade da Costa and João Miranda Lemos: Adaptive Temperature Control for a Solar Furnace Jorge Henriques, Paulo Gil, António Cardoso, Paulo Carvalho, Hermínio Duarte- Ramos and António Dourado: Nonlinear Control Based on Affine Neural Networks: Application to a Solar Power Plant Rainer Pickhardt: Temperature Control of a Solar Power Plant João Miranda Lemos, Luís Rato and Rui Neves da Silva, Adaptive Control of Distributed Collector Solar Fields Pedro Roncero-Sánchez, Vicente Feliu, Aurelio García-Cerrada and Xavier del Toro: State-feedback,