In this talk, a control-oriented physical model is established for a waste heat recovery system, a lower order model is then built. Both model predictive control and gain scheduling control strategies are applied into waste heat energy conversion systems.

Jianhua Zhang is a Professor in School of Control and Computer Engineering at North China Electric Power University, Beijing, China. She received her Ph. D from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in 1996. Her research interests are in the areas of waste heat recovery, stochastic control, networked control systems, fault diagnosis and process control.